S&T Country Report - Albania - WBC-INCO Net

The task of the NOSIC project, which was funded by GTZ, was to establish a project
team/small incubator with one entrepreneurial professor, one established
entrepreneur with scientific/engineering background and a group of project
assistants.
The team was to support:
• Faculty of Engineering (FTN) institutes to develop a SWOT analysis of Core
Competences and to start incubation projects;
• existing old spin-offs around Faculty of Engineering to develop business
cooperation as well as to develop management and planning documents
(strategic plan, action plan) and business support tools (e. g. web based
cooperation platform).
Industry/Sector (technology area): Variety of technology areas covered.
International activities: Cooperation with Timisoara University (Romania).
B2) Technology/Innovation Centres in UNMIK/Kosovo as defined
by UNSC Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999
According to information gathered for this report, there are no technology/innovation
centres operating in UNMIK/Kosovo at the moment.
C1) Technological and Science Parks in Serbia
The Law on Innovation Activity defines a science and technology park as commercial
company, which, within designated space, provides infrastructural and professional
services to higher education, innovation organisations, as well as to high- and
medium-technology commercial companies in a particular scientific, research and
development or production grouping for the purpose of connecting them in order to
apply more rapidly new technologies, create and market new products and services.
(Article 23). Parks are defined as organisations providing infrastructure support to the
innovation activity.
The Programme is operating in accordance with the Innovation Strategy (currently in
preparation) and Law on Innovation Activity with the special focus on (Ministry of
Economy, 2006):
• Industrial parks - the basic goal of developing the concept of industrial parks is
generating new enterprises through providing integrated infrastructure on a
certain location and with the necessary knowledge. They are usually close to
different transport infrastructure and\or existing industrial plants.
• Science parks - often called a research or technology park, are areas set
aside for businesses and institutions based on scientific research and
development. Such parks are integrated with universities or
technology\science centres and are aimed at bridging the gap between R&D
institutions and enterprises.
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