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As indicated in the National Programme for Business Incubators and Clusters<br />

Development in the Republic of Serbia 2007- 2010, the specific objectives for the<br />

upcoming period are:<br />

- Strengthened public-private partnership;<br />

- Minimum 15 business incubators established and operational;<br />

- Minimum one park established;<br />

- Serbian Association of Business Incubators established;<br />

- Innovation Relay Centre established; and<br />

- Minimum 10 operative clusters established.<br />

Bearing in mind the comprehensiveness of the Programme, which includes activities<br />

of forming infrastructure, strengthening national and local institutions, as well as<br />

development of business activities, the estimated total investment for the full<br />

Programme implementation is € 23 million (Ministry of Economy, 2006).<br />

Name: Republic Agency for the Development Small and Medium-<br />

Sized Enterprises and Entrepreneurship (RASME)<br />

Contact: Topličin venаc br. 19, Beogrаd, Serbia<br />

Email: office@sme.sr.gov.yu<br />

Website: http://www.sme.sr.gov.yu/<br />

The Republic Agency for the Development Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and<br />

Entrepreneurship (RASME) was founded by the Law on Agency for a Development of<br />

Small and Medium-Sized Companies (Službeni glasnik RS, n. 65, from 23.11.2001).<br />

The Agency is divided into three key sectors: International Co-operation; Support to<br />

SMEs; and Common Affairs.<br />

The basic aim of the RASME is to support (aid, advise, assist, and protect) the<br />

development and interests of the SMEs, in:<br />

• Invigoration of the regional economic development and change of the<br />

economic structure;<br />

• Solving unemployment problems more efficiently;<br />

• Substitution of import and intensifying SMEs competitiveness;<br />

• Stimulating various forms of cooperation with big enterprises;<br />

• Introducing modern technologies and enhancing innovations (entrepreneurs’<br />

incubators, innovative centres, etc);<br />

• Utilizing business premises and equipment more economically; and<br />

• Quality upgrading; automation and computerization etc.<br />

RASME has predominantly been active in providing legal and financial consulting, as<br />

well as training in co-operation with the National Employment Service. The Agency<br />

helps SMEs in adapting new technologies in the form of advisory support to their<br />

innovative activity.<br />

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