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Campinas, BrazilCampinas, Brazil

Basic Data

Infrastructure

Economy

Science & Technology

Universities

http://www.campinet.sp.gov.br/~secoop

Geographical LocationGeographical Location

80 km north of São Paulo

CampinasFounded1790

CampinasCampinasBasic DataBasic Data

• Second largest city of the state of São Paulo• 15th largest city of Brazil• 1.050.000 inhabitants• Population of largely of European origin (60% Italian)• Regional metropolitan center comprising 22 cities with 2,5

million inhabitants• Industrial, agricultural, scientific, cultural, educational and

commercial center, with levels comparable to developed countries (level of Spain)

• 93,8 % literacy rate, 60 % with middle and higher level education

• 99 % population health care coverage

Cultural HeritageCultural Heritage

Agronomical Institute

Cathedral Education Institute

Old Railway Station

Old Market

Gazebo

CampinasCampinasInfrastructureInfrastructure

• 97 % houses served with water mains, 95,5 % with electricity

• Largest per capita indices of vehicles, telephones and TV sets in the state

• Sophisticated telecommunication system with 500 km of digital cabling, 400 km of fiber optical cabling, major academic and commercial backbone POP

• 26 hospitals, 45 primary care centers• 10 museums, 90 libraries, 43 movie theaters, 9

theaters, 6 shopping centers, best symphonic orchestra of Brazil

• Cable TV, etc.

CampinasCampinasInfrastructureInfrastructure

• Campinas International Airport:Second largest cargo airport of Latin America, specialized in import;export.

• Ultramodern highway system (151 km inside the county)

• Extensive cargo railway system• Access to the Tiete/Paraná river highway• Endpoint of Bolivia-Brasil gasoduct• Home to the largest oil refinery of Latin America

(Paulinia)

Campinas Campinas InfrastructureInfrastructure

Dom PedroHighway

ViracoposAirport

Paulinia Refinery

CampinasCampinasEconomyEconomy

• 9 % of Internal Gross Product of Brazil (an economy with the size of Chile´s)

• 17 % of Gross Industrial Product of the state of São Paulo• 12 % of the Gross Agricultural Product of the state of São

Paulo• Second largest consumer market in the country• Fifth largest financial market in the country• US$ 3,7 billion exportations• US$ 1,57 billion importations• US$ 9.800 per capita income (second largest in the

country. Brazilian average: US$ 4.200)

CampinasCampinasEconomyEconomy

• 25 % chemical industry production• 19 % heavy machinery production• 21 % textile production• Second largest petrochemical industry in Latin America• 17 % of electrical energy comsumption in São Paulo• 4.500 industrial establishments• 50 among the largest 500 companies in the world have

seat and plants in Campinas• Highest concentration of high tech industries: IBM,

Compaq, Motorola, Lucent, Nortel, etc.• Major development in biotechnological industries

CampinasCampinasScience &TechnologyScience &Technology

• 3 universities with 41.000 students– State University of Campinas– Pontifícial Catholic University of Campinas– Paulista University

• 13 R & D Centers– Informatics Technology Center (CTI)– Telecommunications Research Center (CPqD)– Brazilian Agricultural Research Company (EMBRAPA)– Agronomical Institute of Campinas (IAC)– Food Technology Institute of Campinas (ITAL)– National Synchrotron Research Laboratory (LNLS)

CampinasCampinasScience & TechnologyScience & Technology

• First fiber optics and laser R & D in Latin America, third in the world

• First digital telephone switches R & D and production in Latin American, fourth in the world

• Second all-Brazilian computer development team• First in Brazil in food engineering and agronomical

research and engineering• Second in Brazil in oil/gas exploration technology and

petrochemical engineering• UNICAMP is the second university in all-Brazilian

rankings and first in many of its high tech schools• First in bioinformatics, second in biotechnology

Science ResearchScience Research

Synchrotron Lab

CPqD

IAC

CampinasCampinasIndustrial IncentivesIndustrial Incentives

• Seven high tech incubators and technological parks: Centro Industrial de Alta Tecnología de Campinas (CIATEC)

• 2 areas with a total of 4 million m2

• Strategically located (near UNICAMP, PUCCAMP and other scientific centers)

• Favourable land prices, tax exemptions• Neighbouring counties with high level of incentives

and industrialization policies: Indaiatuba, Sumaré, Jaguariúna, Paulínia

State University of State University of CampinasCampinas

UNICAMPUNICAMP

http://www.unicamp.br/

UNICAMPUNICAMPBasic DataBasic Data

• 4 campuses (Campinas, Paulinia, Limeira, Piracicaba) – 3 million square meters

• 28.914 regular students• 12.784 graduate students (44 % of total)• 23.090 continuing education students• 1.815 faculty (90 % full-time, 80 % doctors)• 21 schools and institutes, 2 technical schools• 44 undergraduate courses• 120 graduate courses (10% of Brazil´s)• 1.000 dissertations and theses per year• 6.200 research projects (15% of national production)• US$ 210 million annual budget

UNICAMPUNICAMP

UNICAMPUNICAMPTechnology CentersTechnology Centers

• School of Electrical and Computer Engineering• Computer Sciences Institute• Mathematics, Statistics and Computation Institute• Physics Institute• Interdisciplinary centers: Biomedical Engineering,

Biomedical Informatics, Educational Informatics, Agricultural Informatics, Bioinformatics

• UNICAMP Computing Center