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Pharmaceutical Industry Nucleus

Agif - Agência de Gestão de Inovação Farmacêutica (Agency for Management of Pharmaceutical Innovation) is the most recent nucleus of Uniemp. Created in January 2002, together with the Applied Toxicology Center of Instituto Butantan and with the support of Fapesp- - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Foundation for Research Aid and Support of the State of São Paulo) -- its main objective is to generate projects to develop new technologies and products in the pharmaceutical area.

This agency is composed of a group of researchers of Agif and universities and Brazilian and foreign consultants. Its partners are universities and research centers; private companies, such as Biolab, Biosintética and União Química; funding entities such as Fapesp; patent offices and consultants.

 MAIN SERVICES:

     To monitor and economically evaluate industrial scientific production and technological demand;
     To select private companies for partnerships in research projects;
     To structure and obtain patents and strategies to protect patent rights;
     To identify patentable and marketable research;
     To organize courses, lectures and training in patent rights, in addition to training industrial patent agents for each technological sector;
     To be in charge of commercial management together with partners in financial planning and implementing of commercial production in Brazil and abroad;
     To develop competitive strategies for potential innovations;
     To influence the policy to encourage innovation.

    Agif provides guidelines and registers patents requested by an industry, laboratory or researcher. Interested parties should forward their requests to Uniemp. A technical committee will evaluate and verify the relevance of the proposal, in addition to researching the patent banks, seeking partners, proposing strategies and producing the document in final form.

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