Innovation and Research

Because these so-called rare earths will put us in a position to close the technological gap in areas where we've fallen completely behind.

Today Brazil isn't in a position to say, 'Look, I'm at the frontier of AI knowledge.'

I think it is a fundamental industry for Brazil's future: robotics, automation, artificial intelligence.

The more we can encourage it, the better. The guidance is 'yes'.

without investment in innovation, in research; our most productive plan allocates, in the field of innovation, Rosilda, 108 billion reais in lines of credit whose rate is TR, that is, it is as accessible as possible, BNDES and FINEP, to support innovation and research.

And the government has already done this before. What is agribusiness, if not an initiative that involved Embrapa, researchers.

the programs the government has to send people to study abroad? Oh, I went to study sociology in Spain. Wow, what's the use of that? None. Brazil, like Brazil needs to deal with energy and Brazil needs to deal with rare earths. We need to train tons of people so we can act in these areas.

tons. Maybe biotechnology, given that we have agribusiness and Brazilian biomes that are super rich, but our investment in research has to be for that. We keep training a bunch of people in law school, what's the use of training a bunch of lawyers?