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

Currently, no technology/innovation centres are operating in UNMIK/Kosovo, and first
Industrial Park in Drenas (IPD) started to be built in 2005 (approximately one third of
the Park is finished).
The following recommendations can be given:
• Enhance competences and abilities of Government and its institutions to
precisely define the requirements and priorities in the development of the
entrepreneur and SME sector;
• Improve connection of the entire system of support (non-financial and
financial), there is a strong need for synoptic donor coordination and further
harmonisation;
• Allocate more financial resources to the infrastructure (sustainability of the
structures and their projects);
• Create interactions and linkages between different kinds of knowledge:
science, technology, production;
• Provide effective transfer of good and bad practices;
• Improve understanding of the innovation process by key players, policy
makers;
• Support capacity building (e.g. compulsory training programmes for
employees of government administration, public services and inspection
authorities);
• Offer better coordination and implementation of the entrepreneurial
training to incubated companies;
• Provide accurate and up-to-date information about the operation of
incubators, parks and innovation centres; and
• Monitor and evaluate the performance and impact on the SMEs
development on time.
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