The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) relaunched, this Monday (25), the 8th edition of the Survey of Innovation (PINTEC), which is released every three years. The new study will be based on information relative to 2023, 2024, 2025. The event was held at Casa Brasil IBGE, located at Palácio da Fazenda, downtown Rio and was broadcast live by al IBGE.

The survey, conducted with the support of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), used resources from the National Scientific and Technological Development Fund (FNDCT), managed by the Financial Agency for Studies and Projects (FINEP), with participation of scholarship fellows from the National Council for the Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq).

PINTEC was developed for the first time in the period 1998 - 2000 and had one last edition related to the three year period ended in 2017. The survey has the main objective of building indicators for innovation activities in companies with ten or more persons employed in the Private sector in the sectors of industry, electricity and gas and selected services sectors. 

The launch, after a gap since 2027, was attended by the president of the IBGE, Marcio Pochmann; the deputy Director of Surveys (DPE), Vladimir Miranda; the coordinator general for Promotion of Innovation and of  Knowledge in Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) and of the National Council for the Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), Marcio Ramos de Oliveira; the presidents of FINEP, Luiz Antônio Elias; the executive secretary for the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), Luiz Manuel Rebelo Fernandes, on behalf of ministry Luciana Santos, and also members of DPE's technical team, represented by Andrea Bastos da Silva Guimarães and Fernanda de Vilhena Cornelio Silva.

The president of the IBGE, Marcio Pochmann, highlighted the importance of this survey. “We will be more sure of how the business sector has been reacting and working, in response to initiatives implemented by the federal government, to demands from economic activities, to the competition related to digital transformation. This is the central point that poses a major challenge to countries regarding this current technological revolution. "The IBGE is responsible for informing what happened. A survey is conducted with the objective of presenting evidence, presenting an observable reality. Based on thi reality and on evidence, public policies are improved, redirected or even confirmed,” Pochmann added. 

The deputy director of Surveys, Vladimir Miranda, praised the partnership with other agencies to conduct PINTEC. “Having been able to conduct this survey was certainly not a trivial construction to reach this format and bring PINTEC back in this 8th edition. It is a fundamental survey for the country, and we hope to go on working together so that this survey will remain, with no other gaps."

The resumption of the survey after almost a decade expands the role of PINTEC, which is no longer only a statistical survey but consolidates itself as an example of strategic infrastructure for Brazilian development. The new edition shows methodological update with international OECD patterns, incorporates the digital, environmental and green innovation dimension and expands the analysis about artificial intelligence, automation and digitization. Also, it promotes the integration between innovation, productivity, funding and technological transformation, strengthening the evaluation of industrial and technological policies and intensifies the use of administrative records and of integrated databases.

Then, the president of FINEP, Luiz Antônio Elias, spoke about the data of PINTEC which help public managers in decision making. "We recovered the proposition of such an important survey in a troubled moment, of the geological risk we know, a climate emergency, energetic transition and disruptive technologies, advanced robotics, artificial intelligence in the middle of industrial and biotechnology plants. We are eager to see the data and find out if we can hit the target and follow the right path."

In a video, the minister of Science, technology and Innovation (MCTI), Luciana Santos, highlighted that PINTEC is “an essential instrument to understand innovation in Brazilian companies and expand our capacity to formulate more efficient public policies in tune with current challenges.”

Then, the executive secretariat of the MCTI, Luiz Manuel Rebelo Fernandes, spoke about the period without PINTEC. “We need encompassing information de since 2017 to start assessing policies, impacts and how the can be improved. This is the fundamental importance in the Survey of innovation which is being launched here. PINTEC will give us more complete information.”

According to the coordinator general of Promotion of Innovation and of  Knowledge Spillover in Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) and of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Marcio Ramos de Oliveira, "is great joy to participate in the launch of PINTEC after many years. The restart is important because these arefundamental statistical data to strengthen innovation policies in our country. Information ends up helping the entire science and technology system, with important subsidies. It is a great pleasure for CNPQ, because CNPQ can somehow participate in the creation and development of this PINTEC 2025 with scholarships that helped teams working in this survey.”

The manager of Structural and Thematic Analysis, Fernanda de Vilhena, highlighted the changes in PINTEC. “The survey is more modern, but keeps its good quality. The form of data collection is more appropriate to the current reality, and a questionnaire that suits new international norms of innovation measurement. All that is intended to ensure indicators that can faithfully portray what is happening in the country in terms of indicators of science, technology and innovation.”

The resumption of the survey after almost a decade expands the role of PINTEC, which is no longer only a statistical survey but consolidates itself as an example of strategic infrastructure for Brazilian development.

The new edition presents a methodological update aligned with international OECD patterns, incorporates the digital, environmental and green innovation dimension and expands the analysis about topics such as artificial intelligence, automation and digitization. Also, it promotes the integration between innovation data, productivity, funding and technological transformation, strengthens the use of administrative records and of integrated databases.

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