5th Project meeting (Steering Committee and Advisory Board meeting) was held on 16th November, 2018 in London, United Kingdom. The main objective of the meeting was to provide advice to EIZ for the post–SmartEIZ period. SmartEIZ will finish at the end of the year and during the meeting EIZ researchers tackled topics that have been…
EU-Western Balkans Cluster Policy Learning and Matchmaking Event took place on November 22 and November 23, 2018 in Zagreb, Croatia and was organised by PwC in close collaboration with the European Cluster Collaboration Platform. The EU-Western Balkans cluster policy and matchmaking event is set up to support clusters as networking support organisations especially for SMEs,…
The SmartEIZ round table named “New issues relevant for Smart Specialisation Strategy in European ‘periphery’ countries” was held in Dubrovnik on October 26, 2018 within the SINCERE Conference. In line with recommendations of the Steering Committee and the Advisory Board given during 4th meeting, focus of the SmrtEIZ round table was on the research that…
Roberto Mavilia from Bocconi University prepared dissemination report on international collaboration in various aspects of innovation in the selected South East European countries. Key messages of this report are following: The analysed statistical regions within SEE countries differ from developed EU countries in terms of international collaboration in various aspects of innovation. On average, the…
SmartEIZ Innovation Prize was awarded to the best paper submitted to the SmartEIZ conference. The idea was to gather the papers that were created during 9 training workshops where various participants presented their scientific papers. To form a team of researchers from leading institutions at SmartEIZ and to propose one of these papers for the…
SmartEIZ Conference titled “Smart Specialization Strategies: Contemporary Challenges of its Design and Implementation” was held in Zagreb on 25th and 26th September, 2018. It was organized by The Institute of Economics, Zagreb SmartEIZ project team members. Over the past period, the Smart Specialization Strategy has become a binding strategic document for all EU member states on the basis of…
SmartEIZ conference “Smart Specialization Strategies: Contemporary Challenges of its Design and Implementation” will be held in Zagreb on the 25th and 26th September at Hotel Dubrovnik. Keynote speakers are: Bart Verspagen – UNU MERIT, Maastricht, Netherlands Alasdair Reid – European Future Innovation System Centre, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium The final conference program is available here. If you wish to…
This round table focuses on topics we think will be relevant to the future understanding of Industrial Policy and Innovation Policies in countries such as Croatia and SEE countries that can be considered as the periphery of EU. On the one hand, in the last ten years, these countries began to accept EU innovation and…
The Institute of Economics, Zagreb as a coordinator of the SmartEIZ project, is organizing a two-day conference under the title “Smart Specialization Strategies: Contemporary Challenges of its Design and Implementation”. The conference will be held in Zagreb on the 25th and 26th September at Hotel Dubrovnik. The aim of the SmartEIZ conference is to address…
In Zagreb, on June 19th, 2018, the “Innovation Day” conference was held at BIOCentar in Zagreb. The conference was welcomed by the members of the Board of Directors of HAMAG-BICRO, Mario Turalija and State Secretary of the Ministry of Science and Education, Tome Antičić. The introductory speech emphasized the importance of innovation for sustainable economic…