Croatia - Increasing Innovation Potential (Anglais)

This Results Profile focuses on increasing Croatia’s innovation potential. Rising living standards reduced the competitiveness of Croatia’s labor-intensive industries, while inadequate science, technology, and innovation policies hampered the development...  Voir la suite This Results Profile focuses on increasing Croatia’s innovation potential. Rising living standards reduced the competitiveness of Croatia’s labor-intensive industries, while inadequate science, technology, and innovation policies hampered the development of knowledge-based sectors. The Science and Technology Project, supported by World Bank, was conceived as the backbone of Croatia’s innovation policy, and supported the creation of technology transfer offices in key public research organizations and universities, as well as their diversification toward contract-based research. The project also funded cooperation of local researchers and industry with Croatian scientific diaspora and researchers from abroad, which increased the mobility of highly qualified experts and transfer of knowledge. Croatia had increased the magnitude of commercialization of public research and private sector innovation. The access to Research and Development funding was expanded to about eighty small and medium sized companies, which was important in the context of illiquid financial markets and as mitigation measures to the global economic crisis.  Réduire

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