Campinas, Brazil
Basic Data
Infrastructure
Economy
Science & Technology
Universities
http://www.campinet.sp.gov.br/~secoop
Geographical Location
80 km north of São Paulo
Campinas
Founded
1790
Campinas
Basic Data
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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 Heritage
Agronomical Institute
Old Railway
Station
Cathedral
Education
Institute
Old Market
Gazebo
Campinas
Infrastructure
• 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.
Campinas
Infrastructure
• 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
Infrastructure
Dom Pedro
Highway
Viracopos
Airport
Paulinia Refinery
Campinas
Economy
• 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)
Campinas
Economy
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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
Campinas
Science &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)
Campinas
Science & 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 Research
Synchrotron Lab
CPqD
IAC
Campinas
Industrial 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
Campinas
UNICAMP
http://www.unicamp.br/
UNICAMP
Basic 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
UNICAMP
UNICAMP
Technology 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