Prati-Donaduzzi pharmaceutical industry awarded the first prize in Innovative National Entrepreneurship Awards on the category of "Culture promotion project of innovative entrepreneurship", with InovaPrati Project. The recognition was announced during the 19th Innovative National Entrepreneurship Awards of National Association of Promoting Innovative Enterprises (Anprotec). That was the first time the company was awarded by the association.

The award is held by National Association of Promoting Innovative Enterprises (Anprotec) along with Brazilian Service to Support Micro and Small Enterprises (SEBRAE), and recognizes people and institutions that make the difference in the regions where they perform, transforming the economic and social reality.

InovaPrati is a program of attraction of talents in several graduation levels, such as Pharmacy, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biology and Biomedicine, which have proposals of research and innovation on drugs, processes and pharmaceutical technologies. The project started in 2013 and aims to promote the approach between the company and the educational institutions through the support of innovative research in the country, by aiming to enhance the intellectual national capital and to seek new researchers for the pharmaceutical industry.

According to Prati-Donaduzzi´s CEO and the program idealizer, Luiz Donaduzzi, it is a satisfaction to receive this recognition. "We are an innovative company and we created InovaPrati in order to support innovative and high relevant projects on health field. Since the beginning, we have been focusing on seek innovators and entrepreneurs who have ideas and vision of future", explains.