IRANI was recognized in December 2009, with the Anpei Seal for Innovative Companies, awarded by the National Research and Development Association for Innovative Companies (Anpei).
This tribute first started in 2008, and it is meant to identify and recognize companies, Scientific, and Technological Institutions (STI´s) that invest in Research, Development and Innovation (R, D & I) in Brazil.
To grant the Seal, Anpei carries out an evaluation process where applicants are judged according to the following criteria:
– Intensity of expenditure on R, D & I: average percentage of expenditure on internal and external technological development versus the company’s total revenues;
– Percentage of human resources in R, D & I: average percentage of staff involved with P, D & I in relation to the annual average of collaborators, qualified as PhD´s, Masters, graduates and technicians;
– Impact on technological innovation and the results of the innovative forces: the percentage of last year’s revenue that was generated by products launched during the last three years.
Out of the 156 Anpei associates, IRANI together with 46 other companies (ten from Santa Catarina) were awarded with the Seal.
For the Company, this achievement represents a moral incentive to continue the search for competitiveness through technological innovation, knowing that this can raise the process levels and the innovative culture.
Together with the 34 companies that received the Seal in 2008, a total of 81 companies and ICT´s have already obtained it. The Anpei expectation is that the seal be constituted as a recognized certification by bodies that promote innovation, so that companies that have been awarded the seal have easier access to public funding for research, development and innovation projects.
