REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY Slovenia land of creative, committed, open minded and cooperative people and companies MSc. Sabina Koleša Director General Ministry of Economic Development and Technology
Feb 03, 2016
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Slovenia land of creative, committed, open minded and
cooperative people and companies
MSc. Sabina KolešaDirector General
Ministry of Economic Development and Technology
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Competitive position of the Slovenian industry
• The overall performance of the Slovenian industry is improving• Competitiveness through cooperation• There is still an important “strategic gap” in productivity, mainly due to
• Needed improvement of managerial and organisational knowledge• Too strong focus on products (components) with medium added
value• Inadequate innovation activity vs. salaries and product range• Relatively low investment capacity – Crisis does not help
• The share of innovative enterprises is at EU average, in service sector further improvement needed.
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Europe manages to reduce in the period 2008-2013 the innovation gap to USA, Korea and Japan.
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European Union Innovation Scoreboard 2013
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What do innovation leaders have in common?• Countries at the top of the ranking for the composite innovation indicator share a number of
strengths in their national research and innovation systems. While there is not one single way to reach top innovation performance, it is clear that all innovation leaders, perform very well in Business R&D expenditures and other innovation indicators related to firm activities.
• All of the innovation leaders have higher than average scores in Public-private co-publications per million populations, which suggests good linkages between the science base and enterprises. All European top innovators also excel in the commercialisation of their technological knowledge, as demonstrated by their good performance on the indicator License and patent revenues from abroad.
• Furthemore, the overall good performance of the innovation leaders reflects a balanced national research and innovation system. While each country has its own specificities, policy responses should attempt not only to address relative weaknesses in national research and innovation systems, but also to have more balanced performances across all categories of indicators.
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The vision: "By improving the business environment, supporting entrepreneurship and innovation, and through the development of promising technological and industrial areas that address social challenges, SIP will create conditions for the continuous restructuring of existing industry into energy, materially, environmentally and socially effective industry of knowledge and innovation for new, more durable and better employment opportunities, and greater integration into the international flows of business."
SLOVENIAN INDUSTRIAL POLICY – SIP INDUSTRIAL POLICY FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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SLOVENIAN INDUSTRIAL POLICY GUIDELINES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT1. IMPROVING THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
1.1. Functioning of the rule of law1.2. Friendlier administrative environment1.3. A more flexible labour market and education adapted to the economy1.4. Encouraging tax environment1.5. Environmental, energy and spatial policy1.6. Comprehensive supporting environment for business innovation1.7. Improving access to finance1.8. Environment promoting creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation (CEI) 1.9. Effective management of companies, especially state-owned enterprises1.10. Corporate social responsibility
INDUSTRIAL POLICY FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT - SUMMARY
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2. STRENGTHENING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION - FOCUSING SUPPORT ON NEW, INNOVATIVE AND GROWING COMPANIES
3. RESPONSE TO SOCIAL CHALLENGES - ORIENTATION OF SUPPORT TO PROMISING INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGY AREAS
3.1. The environmental and energy challenge and the rational use of natural resources3.2. The challenge of sustainable mobility3.3. Food, health and ageing population3.4. Potential of key enabling technologies - KET3.5. ACTIVITIES FOR THE LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY
5.1. Promoting internationalisation and the utilisation of globalisation effects5.2. Promoting industrial development and strengthening brands5.3. Restructuring companies in all stages of development
4. EU INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY OBJECTIVES4.1. COSME4.2. Horizon 20204.3. Cohesion Policy for the period 2014-2020
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* All technology fields and industrial sectors are intertwined and there is no clear divide between them. Mentioned technologies also support other industrial sectors, therefor only main sector off application is mentioned in the table. Source: MEDT
PRIORITY FIELDS - CHALLENGES
Challenge Priority technology field* Key industrial sectors*
Environment- energy challenge & smart use of natural resources
Environmental technologies (efficient use of energy, renuable energy sources…)
Energy / »Smart« systemsSustainable housing
Manufacturing (especially wood-processing industry)
Chemical & Process industrySustainable mobility Technologies for sustainable mobilty Avtomotive industry
Food, health & ageing of population
Biotechnoloy & other technologies related to this challenge
Pharmaceutical industryFood processing industry & sustinable food productionSustainable turism
Potencial KET – Key enabling technologies
Nanotechnology, micro- & nanoelectronics, fotonics, biotechnology, advanced materials, advanced production & process technologies
ICTElectro industry & electronics New materialsMetal – manufacturing, machines & toolmaking
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EU new programing period 2014-2020 – Structural funds
• Key responsability MEDT – as managing authority• Cohesion policy Structural funds:
– ERDF, ESF, CF
• Smart specialization – a key to priorities and funding for 1st priority of Cohesion policy Structural funds
• Strategic documents must be adopted in 2013
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For next programming period Eleven Thematic Objectives, covering Europe 2020 priorities for Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth.•Smart Growth (1)strengthening research, technological development and innovation;
(2) enhancing access to, and use and quality of ICT;
(3) enhancing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises
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• Sustainable Growth (4) supporting the shift towards a low-carbon economy in
all sectors;
(5) promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and management;
(6) protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency;
(7) promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures;
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• Inclusive Growth (8) promoting employment and supporting labour
mobility;
(9) promoting social inclusion and combating poverty;
(10) investing in education, skills and lifelong learning;
(11) enhancing institutional capacity and an efficient public administration.
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Activities of ministries (MEDT & MESCS) - Technology development
Balance the activities in– SME sector (incremental research) - SMER– Strategic RTDI activities of enterprises – SRRP, CE, CC– New industries and future prospective areas – CC, FAIR, ESA, …
And strong support to– International business RTD cooperation (EUREKA, ERA-NETs, Art. 169
(Eurostars, AAL), art. 171. Artemis, ESA– Human capital development– Focus also on non-technological innovation, which was completely neglected
in the past 20 years– Tax allowances for RD (100%)
Introduction of repayable funds in MEDT portfolio
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SOLUTION for the future growth• Competitiveness factors differ from country to
country, region to region, company to company and individual to individual
• Cooperation is the key– international brings in even more advantages
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Thank you for attention!
MSc. Sabina KolešaDirector General
Ministry of Economic Development and Technology