Acate
The Santa Catarina State Technology Association (ACATE) has been working since 1986 to promote the development of the technology sector in the State of Santa Catarina. Throughout its activities, ACATE has consolidated itself as one of the main interlocutors of Santa Catarina's technology companies with the municipal, state and federal public authorities, as well as other representative entities and institutions in the technological sector, not only in Santa Catarina but in Brazil . ACATE also acts in the articulation between the technology sector in Santa Catarina, teaching and research centers and funding agencies and maintains partnership with several companies and entities to offer more and more benefits and growth tools to its members. Conditions that strengthen the bonds and potentialities that the associativism can propitiate for the technological ventures of Santa Catarina through ACATE and that have as a greater result the strengthening of the technological sector in the State of Santa Catarina.