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The aim of the Council is continuous promotion and stimulation of growth of the competitiveness and productivity of the Croatian economy, which will, in the long-run, result in continuous sustainable growth of living standards in Croatia. The Council achieves this by supporting development policies, laws and other socially important processes that have an impact on creating and raising the competitiveness of the Croatian economy. Name: National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development (NFS) Contact: Trg J. J. Strossmayera 4, 10000 Zagreb, Republic of Croatia Email: Not available Website: http://www.nzz.hr/en/index.php The National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development (NFS) presents the first government agency, which was established in 2001 and is responsible for funding scientific and developmental projects in addition to the MSES which used to be the single financier for R&D in Croatia. The mission of the Foundation is to promote science, higher education and technological development in Republic of Croatia, in order to enhance development and employment opportunities. NFS gives support to scientific, higher education and technological programs and projects, and also promotes mobility in the field of higher education. Support can be given to scientific programs of special interest, in basic, applied and development research. NFS specially supports higher education programs which results in innovations and patents, gives grants to talented students and especially to young and prominent scientists and experts from industry, scientific and higher education institutions in Republic of Croatia. The Foundation plans to introduce new programs like “Start-up” aiming at enabling post-doctoral students to launch their own independent research projects and “Employed” for financing doctoral studies for employed persons. 2.2 Key Innovation Infrastructures The following section gives an overview on the main existing innovation infrastructures in Croatia (clusters, technology and innovation centres, technological and science parks, Business-start-up centres/ Technology Incubators and some further related organizations). page 17/HRV
A) Clusters The development of clusters is the crucial moment in stimulating greater progress of small and medium enterprises. For that reason, the Croatian Government welcomes all the initiatives in the local government units, entrepreneurial associations which, together with entrepreneurs, are the main promoters of the cluster development. Croatian economic and regional policy supports formation and development of clusters with the stimulation of necessary infrastructure. Clusters are networks of enterprises that complete each other. They are mostly formed out of a mixture of three types of enterprises that mutually complete: • Enterprises with a special market and technological power working on the international level; • Contractors or manufacturers, mostly small and medium enterprises; and • Innovative and dynamic professional associations based on the new cognitions (like: research institutes, professional training institutions, etc.). In year 2006, the development of 18 clusters in six sectors (wood and metal processing, food, textiles, printing and publishing and tourism), with the inclusion of 401 business subjects, was supported by the Ministry of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship (5.5 million kunas = EUR 755 627). In the year 2005, ten clusters were supported amounting to 1.6 million kunas (EUR 219 819). For years the Ministry of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship has been cooperating with the German Technical Cooperation Association (GTZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) on different projects concerning small and medium entrepreneurship. One of the most important projects they cooperate on is the education of cluster managers that has started in 2005. Major task of cluster development is training of the key factors for efficacious cluster management. The Ministry of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship presented the ˝Cluster management - hand-book for professional work˝ on December 4, 2006. The handbook was prepared the cooperation with GTZ and was written on the basis of collected experience of clusters in the EU. It is intended to serve as an important source of information for cluster managers, and to all the readers interested in cluster issue and cluster management. It is divided into two parts: • Survey that shows the basic principles of cluster management; and • Collection with all the material and instruments necessary for cluster managers. (The Government of the Republic of Croatia, 2007). Despite government support, evidence suggests that clusters are still struggling – with a lack of integration of participating companies, and inadequate relations with R&D centres and top service providers. Achieving excellence would require a better articulated range of cluster support measures to produce joint initiatives for creating value chains and thus improve the quality of products and services (OECD and EC, 2007). page 18/HRV
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1 Introduction This thematic report
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Task Force to ease market entry bar
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United Nations Development Programm
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1.3 Specific Programmes and Instrum
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- IFC/PEP Southeast Europe is part
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• Properly evaluate the existing
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5 Further Sources ACIT (2007). ALBA
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Meshko, V. (2006). Technology Trans
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4 References Belada, L. (2007). Fin
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