Rural Show innovation area will have new structure

A building with more than four thousand square meters of built area, next to the main access to the Coopavel technology park, will house the innovation area of ​​the Coopavel Rural Show from the 35th edition onwards, from February 6th to 10th, 2023. The official announcement was made this Tuesday morning during the signing of partnerships at Espaço Impulso, an innovation hub for agribusiness opened last February.

The new structure will cost more than R$6 million and will host the Digital Rural Show, an attraction of the Coopavel Rural Show that grows every year and proves the strong connection between agriculture and technological news. The building under construction will feature some of the most modern innovation features ever developed, connecting it to the era of sustainability. “We will have an ideal structure to host an event that grows as innovation transforms the daily life of agriculture and the most different productive sectors and society”, according to general coordinator Rogério Rizzardi.

Partnerships

The signing of the new Espaço Impulso partnership, integrated by PTI and ExoHub, was with cooperatives, innovation hubs and technology parks. “Paraná has 18 technology parks and the ecosystem of the West, recently awarded at a major national event, shows the region's strength and determination to continue growing and innovating. The PTI feels proud to participate”, stated the president of the Itaipu Technological Park Eduardo Castanheira Garrido Alves. “Cooperativism, which contributes so much to the growth of the West, makes us look for something more, essential for development”, according to Garrido.

This is a combination to increase the innovation ecosystem in the West, essential to prepare the region for an even more promising future”, according to Dilvo, adding that Leaders need to have the vision to understand trends and act to retain talent capable of introducing the territory, and their respective companies and professions, to a world of new possibilities and expectations. “There is no other way to grow other than for innovative entrepreneurship. It is he who transforms the planet and agriculture is the Brazilian driving force that will drive the evolution of other sectors”, according to PTI Business Director, Rodrigo Régis.

ExoHub's Expansion Director, Marcela Lachowski, informed that the company's role is to contribute to the consolidation of ecosystems throughout Brazil. “These partnerships, like the one signed here, they produce strong ecosystems,” she said. “We are all united by something bigger and we are also happy to participate”, said George Hiraiwa, from Cocriagro.