Brazil needs a better environment for knowledge creation and innovation. Bureaucracy currently holds back research. Fixing this will require changes to institutional policy and national legislation. At the University of Sao Paulo, for instance, we began a major initiative in 2011 to enable scientists to focus on what they do best, rather than wasting time filling in forms. The university is the largest research institution in South America, responsible for about 20% of all papers published in Brazil every year. The institution's 6,000 scientists win almost half of the US$450 million that the state of Sao Paulo awards to support research.
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