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28 National system of innovation in Slovenia facilitated by structural reforms and an increasingly vibrant private sector. 9 The economy enjoys relatively high levels of business freedom, trade freedom, investment freedom, property rights, and freedom from corruption. Business regulations have become more straightforward and transparent, and recent reductions in the corporate tax rate have increased competitiveness. Foreign investment is encouraged, and the streamlining of investment rules has eliminated burdensome restrictions. Weak scores in government spending and labour freedom hold down Slovenia’s overall economic freedom. Government spending is more than 40 percent of GDP, and the privatization of state-controlled enterprises has been sluggish. Labour market reforms have also been delayed, hampering employment and productivity growth (http://www.heritage.org/index/country/slovenia). Slovenia is ranked as 53 out of 183 economies in 2010 in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business data base (see the list of summary indicators in Table SA4). Larger improvements have been realised in starting a business, dealing with permits (VEM one stop shop, as explained later contributed here). Compared to the region, the worst (and relatively worsening) conditions are found at employing workers, where all of the indicators (Difficulty of hiring index; Rigidity of hours index; Difficulty of redundancy index; Rigidity of employment index and Redundancy costs) exceed the regional (Eastern Europe and Asia) average. Ranking has decreased also at paying taxes (Profit tax exceeds the regional average). The highest barriers that could be summed up from various different surveys of business environment (World bank doing business, CIR surveys, Enterprise survey etc.) in Slovenia are (i) high taxes, (ii) rigid labour market and (iii) administrative procedures (especially enforcing contracts). 9 Improved ranking is also found at WEF – The Global Competitiveness Report 2009–2010, where Slovenia (ranked 37 th ) follows closely behind Czech Republic, having improved by five places. Slovenia benefits from world-class health and educational systems, good infrastructure, and impressive innovative capacity. In addition, the country’s macroeconomic stability has improved (up from 33 rd to 26 th rank this year), advancing its overall competitiveness outlook.
Macroeconomic performance and framework conditions for innovation 29 Figure 2.2.1: Enterprise survey on obstacles when engaging in business Source: http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/ExploreEconomies/Graph.aspxeconomyid=169&year=2009. Since it has been evaluated as less liberal, the improvement of business environment is one of the key recommendations from business society as well as from the international organizations such as OECD. Less governmental influence in business sector, finalization of privatization and greater independence to the Competition Protection Office of the Republic of Slovenia is suggested. In line with the Lisbon agenda the aim is also to facilitate business creation by improving the business start-up environment, in particular by making it cheaper and easier to start a business and ensuring access to capital for new businesses. The Slovenian IPR legislation is in accordance with the EU legislation and international treaties.
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