We create research, briefings and workshops to help you understand the Brazilian terrain.
From the macro big picture to the micro minutiae we help you dig into what is happening.
We create projects around innovation and learning to better connect the world with Brazil.
An open source maker lab being built in the Complexo do Alemão in Rio de Janeiro.
Wikihouse Rio, a winner of the TED Prize 2012, is a project to build an open source maker lab in the Complexo do Alemão favela in Rio de Janeiro. The goal is to help young people tap into their potential and share their skills with others in Brazil and around the world as part of the Wikihouse network and to be part of the foundations of the Brazil’s maker movement.
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Few things are more likely to invoke the suspicion of very seriouspeople in advanced economies than loose talk about measuringnational “happiness”.Measuring Brazil's gross national happiness | FT Beyond Brics

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Across spheres such as funding, enterprise development, localcurrencies and hybrid business models, these pioneersare nurturing a next economy.The advance of social enterprise in Brazil | Sustainable Brands

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As GDP growth in Brazil fades from its highs, and evenif it doesn’t, tough institutional fixesare no longer avoidable.Gain without growth: Time to measure wealth | Brazilintel briefing

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More channels for creating and producing stuff of valuehas important implications both for Brazil’s consumption-orientedeconomy and for tackling current education and innovation challenges.Crowdfunding kicks off in Brazil | Brazilintel post

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Green GDP should help Brazil catch up with its peersand lead to the deepening of national wealth measurementof which ‘the environment’ is but a baby first step.Hidden wealth: Catching up with green GDP | Brazilintel post

A mission to explore how a creative, collaborative and networked economy is coalescing to help Brazil leap into the 21st century.
This new economy could lay the foundations of a new era of development for Brazil helping to overcome traditional innovation and productivity bottlenecks. CREATEBRAZIL will explore the contours of this world, from its new institutional underpinnings to the work of pioneers across the country, connecting a Brazilian experience with an emerging global realignment of what a type of productivity that is fit for the 21st century could come to look like.
Get in touch to find out more
email: create@brazilintel.com
Read our latest FT post on Brazil's creative economy imperative
“From the jeitinho, the skilled art of finding a way to get things done against the odds, to the oft derided gambiarra, working deftly within constraints to improvise something useful out of what you have to hand, these highly prized attributes have in Brazil their own living laboratory.”
Brazil and the case for muddle-through-ology, FT Beyond Brics
Rio is changing. Find out more about the new Rio.
Our insights service, produced in collaboration with social innovation agency Dharma, digs into the aspirations and experiences of the citizens of the new Rio. We go beyond traditional surveying to co-create insight with our citizen-partners across the city, uncovering real, unfiltered understanding of the experience of the city’s residents as it undergoes this transformation.
Get in touch to find out more
email: rioinsight@brazilintel.com
