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Vale do Itajaí accounts for 26.8% of the state’s technology companies and contributes with 22% of the total revenue generated by the sector. According to ACATE Observatory, the region counts on 3,300 companies, employing more than 10,300 employees, with a R$ 3.4 billion/year revenue.
In the Alto Vale do Itajaí, an important industrial park in Santa Catarina, technology entrepreneurs and sector representatives count on ACIRS Núcleo de Informática da Associação Comercial e Industrial de Rio do Sul (IT Center for the Commercial and Industrial Association of Rio do Sul), local ACATE’s partner.