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BNDES and Finep jointly run the Chamada Pública para Seleção de Propostas de Atração, Implantação ou Expansão de Centros de Pesquisa, Desenvolvimento Tecnológico e Inovação — a competitive call under the Nova Indústria Brasil (NIB) national industrial-policy framework (filed as 2024-01-22-brazil-nova-industria-brasil-nib). The call was opened in February 2025 with a R$3 billion budget and a 30 June 2025 submission deadline; results and support-plan structuring followed 15 September and 28 October 2025 respectively. Both Brazilian and foreign companies were eligible, provided foreign entrants first establish formal legal and administrative operations in Brazil before requesting financial support. Minimum project size was R$10 million (North/Northeast) or R$20 million (other regions), with execution windows up to 36 months.
Demand overshot the original envelope by roughly 19x (R$57.4bn in proposals against R$3bn on offer), prompting BNDES/Finep to raise the committed support to R$8.9bn across the 88 selected proposals — itself tied to R$10bn in total associated project investment. Instruments used span reimbursable credit, equity stakes, non-reimbursable grants for company-institution cooperative R&D, and economic subsidies, reflecting NIB's blended-finance approach to onshoring corporate R&D capacity.
co-financing well beyond the state's initial fiscal commitment — useful evidence for NIB budget-execution tracking.
Center-West regions (R$4bn), extending NIB's regional-development mission beyond the industrial South/Southeast core.
access this financing line for onshore R&D centres — a channel worth monitoring for foreign-company participation once BNDES publishes the full award list.
published in the sources reviewed — worth a follow-up pass once BNDES releases the full award list.
split (R$4bn) and new-centre-only allocation (R$3.4bn) is not yet disaggregated by industry in public reporting.