One of these ‘horizontal’ funds is an infrastructure fund aimed at supporting the improvement of academic research infrastructure. The entire program had approximately BRLS300 million at its disposal in 2002 (de Negri et al, 2006). In 2011, the Green-Yellow Fund alone was able to disburse over BRLS330 million, while the size of the entire Sectorial Funds grew to BRLS3.2 billion (Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inova^ao, 2011).