Carlos H. Brito-Cruz, Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2008
Scientists in Brazil published 16,950 scientific articles in indexed journals in 2005. The country is the 17th-largest producer of science in the world. Nine out of ten of these articles were generated in public university laboratories. Scientists and engineers in business sector R&D activities created several cases of world-class competitive innovation. These include oil self-sufficiency, the most efficient ethanol in the world,