Instituto de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico ( en, Institute of Development and Technology) (previously ''Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia'' / ''Nokia Institute of Technology''), usually referred to as INDT, is a

nonprofit organization A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...

focused on research and development of mobile software and telecommunication technology. INDT (then stylized as ''INdT'') was founded by

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, i ...

in October 2001 in Brazil with incentive funds from the Brazilian Law on Information Technology. Since

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...

's acquisition of Nokia Mobile and its divesting of the investment, INDT is fully independent from Nokia and receives funding from services provided to clients and from fiscal exemption benefits established by the Brazilian Law of Information Technology. As of 2022 INDT has two R&D centers in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

(located in Brasilia and Manaus).

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* Research institutes in Brazil {{nonprofit-org-stub