In 2020-2023, the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) hosted the project “Instruments for Evaluating Foreign Investments (IAIE) in Various Countries: Recommendations for Brazil”, which was launched through a public call for studies on mechanisms for controlling and evaluating the inflow of investments from foreign capital. These instruments have been increasingly invoked over the last twenty years, changing the global trend of liberalizing the entry of foreign capital. Control of foreign investment in the military and defense sectors has always been common.

However, the concept of security has more recently undergone an extension of scope and content, with the incorporation into this concept of concerns about domestic strategic industries and Critical Infrastructure (CI), as well as technology-based companies and deep techs and data access. The aim of the meeting was to discuss with experts in relevant areas of knowledge related to and affected by the IAIE debate, especially in sectors linked to the high-tech and security sector, the results produced in the last two years of research. The debate, a partnership between CEBRI, IPEA and FINEP, seeks to collaborate in the revision of the final documents of the research project, with considerations on the possible implementation of IAIE in Brazil and to produce inputs for a new research project to be developed in the coming years, with CEBRI and partners.