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MINDS (Multidisciplinary Institute for Development and Strategies)
reflects the convergence among academic
trajectories, research interests,
policy-making experience and political
convictions of a group of individuals
concerned with the public dimensions
of intellectual and academic work.
In its analytical dimension, the Project
is forged by a comprehensive (interdisciplinary)
understanding of globalization in
both its sources and its effects,
and by convergent approaches in the
fields of economics of innovation,
competition and new regulatory devices,
comparative institutional analysis,
conflict sociology, business organization
and strategy, macro-finance, the developmental
state as a key player, international
organizations, and social inclusion’
strategies and policies .
It is conceived as set of initiatives,
to be developed as a cluster of activities,
targeting a broad audience, and aiming
to constitute a focused network on
development strategies (both in its
Public-policy and in its Corporate
dimensions) and policy analysis and
proposals, having Globalization as
a major shaping force .
In its international relations dimension,
MINDS aims to contribute to develop
an analytical framework and a policy
proposal’s basis for the South-South
and North-South multilevel dialogue.
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Jorge |
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President of National Institute
of Industrial Property (INPI).
Civil engineering with master´s
degree in enterprise administration
and doctorate in collective
health, State University of
Rio de Janeiro.
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DE CASTRO, Antonio |
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PhD in Economics, State University
of Campinas (UNICAMP). Graduate
Certificate , Centre d'Études
des Programmes Économiques
(CEPE). BA in Economics, School
of Economics and Business Administration/Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro.
Full Professor,Institute of
Economics/ Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro (on leave
since 2004). Current Director
of Planning, Brazilian National
Bank for Economic and Social
Development (BNDES).
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BURLAMAQUI,
Leonardo |
PhD in Industrial Economics
and Economics of Technology
, State University of Campinas
(UNICAMP). Master Degree in
Political Economy, State University
of Campinas . BA in Economics,
Candido Mendes University .
Professor at the State University
of Rio de Janeiro (on leave)
. Member of MINDS board (on
leave). Currently Program Officer
at the Ford Foundation New York.
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| CASTRO,
Ana Célia |
PhD in Economic Sciences, Institute
of Economics, State University
of Campinas (UNICAMP). Full
Professor, Center for Law and
Economic Sciences/Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro. Coordinator
of the MBA in Innovation and
Intellectual Property Management,
Institute of Economics/Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro.
Executive Secretary of REDES
(Network on Development, Teaching
and Society). MINDS Coordinator.
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| PROENÇA,
Adriano |
PhD, Master and BA in Engineering
of Production, Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro. Professor,
Polytechnical School /Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro.
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| BLOCK,
Fred |
Ph.D. , Department of Sociology/
University of California, Berkeley.
Master Degree, Department of
Sociology/ University of California.
BA in Sociology and History,
Columbia College (magna cum
laude ). Professor of Sociology/University
of California, Davis (Chair
1992-1996). Fields of expertise:
Economic Policy and History.
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| CARVALHO,
Fernando Cardim de |
PhD and Master Degrees in Economics,
Rutgers/ State University of
New Jersey. Full Professor of
Economics, Institute of Economics/Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro.
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| CORIAT,
Benjamin |
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Economist. Researcher, Centre
d'Économie de Paris Nord
(CEPN). Fields of expertise:
Innovation, institutions and
economic dynamics.
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| EVANS,
Peter B. |
PhD and Master Degrees, Harvard
University. BA from Harvard
College, (magna cum laude, Phi
Beta Kappa). Eastman Visiting
Professor, Oxford University,
2004 - 2005. Professor of International
Studies /University of California,
Berkeley.
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HODGSON, Geoff |
Litt. D., University of Cambridge.
Graduate Certificate in Education
(with distinction), University
of London. Master Degree in
Economics, University of Cambridge
and University of Manchester
(with distinction ). Research
Professor in Business Studies,
University of Hertfordshire.
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| KREGEL,
Jan A. |
Professor
at the Department of Economics/Universiti
degli Studi di Bologna and Professor
of International Economics in
the Johns Hopkins University.
Associate Director of Bologna
Center (1987-90) . Chief of
Policy Analysis and Development/
United Nations Department of
Economics and Social Affairs.
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| POSSAS,
Cristina de Albuquerque |
PhD in Public Health, Fundação
Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ). Post-Doctorate,
Harvard University. Master Degree
in Social Sciences, State University
of Campinas (UNICAMP). Specialization
Certificate in Epidemiologia Del
Lavoro Clinica Del Lavoro, Universita
Degli Studi di Milano. BAs in
Pshycology, Catholic University
of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), in
Français Langue Et Littérature
3 Degrée, Universite de
Nancy I, and in English Language
and Literature - Proficiency,
University of Cambridge (1967).
Full Professor, Harvard University.
Executive Secretary, DAS National
Technical Committe for Biosecurity.
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Antônio Barros de Castro (BNDES)
Ana Celia Castro (CCJE/UFRJ)
Adriano Proença (Politécnica/UFRJ)
Leonardo Burlamaqui (Ford Foundation)
Jorge Ávila (President/INPI)
Ana Celia Castro (CCJE/UFRJ)
Anna Jaguaribe
Annalisa Primi
Benjamin Coriat (Université Paris XIII)
Cristina Possas (Ministry of Health)
Eli Roque Diniz (IE/UFRJ)
Fred Block (UC/Davis)
Fernando Cardim de Carvalho (IE/UFRJ)
Geoff Hodgson (Cambridge University. UK)
Jan Kregel (United Nations)
Jayaty Gosh
João Furtado (USP)
John Wilkinson (CPDA/UFRRJ)
Lorry Wallack
Maria Beatriz Bohrer (WIPO)
Maria Teresa Leopardi
Mário Ripper (Consultant)
Mário Possas
Peter Evans (UC/Berkeley)
Rainer Kattel
Robert Wade
Rogerio Sobreira
Sérgio Salles Filho (UNICAMP)
Biancca Scarpelini
Cristina Araújo
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