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…
Bruno Škrinjarić and Dr Vedran Recher from the Institute of Economics, Zagreb prepared a policy brief on productivity of enterprises and the intensity of market forces in Croatia. Key messages of the policy brief are: Labour productivity (LP) was stable in pre-crisis period before plummeting in 2009 after which is constantly lower by about 20…
Ministry of Science and Education awarded the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, within the framework of the call for proposals Development and strengthening of synergy with horizontal activities of the Horizon 2020 program: Twinning and ERA Chairs; KK.01.1.1.06, with HRK 1.4 million for library renewal and the establishment of a multipurpose classroom located in the library.…
Dr Marina Tkalec, Dr Iva Tomić and Dr Ivan Žilić from the Institute of Economics, Zagreb are authors of a policy brief entitled „Demand for high-skilled labour: Lessons from the Online Vacancy Index“. Key messages of the policy brief are: Interest in smart skills essentially reflects recent changes in the structure of employment and creation…
During the 6th International Conference ZAGREB FORUM 2018: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF CITIES, which was held at the Technology Park Zagreb on May 28th , 2018, Zagreb FORUM and SmartEIZ innovation award was granted for promoting innovation ecosystems and their development. The conference was organized by the Development Agency Zagreb, in cooperation with the City of…
Visiting training session ‘Big Data and Network Analysis: Focus on Bibliometric and Patent Analysis of Croatian Data’ was held at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb from 16th to 18th May 2018. Gianluca Tarasconi and Roberto Mavilia from ICRIOS Bocconi covered following topics: Introduction to Big Data Introduction to Network Analysis R environment as tool for…
Dr George Tsekouras and Despina Kanellou from CENTRIM, University of Brighton delivered a workshop on using the power of learning networks to enhance smart specialisation strategies in Croatia on the 12th and 13th of April 2018 at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. This workshop is part of WP5 – Capacity Building Activities, Task 5.2 –…
Fourth Project meeting and Advisory Board meeting was held on March 23, 2018 at UNU MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherlands. The main objective of the fourth project meeting was to facilitate SmartEIZ project implementation in the remaining period. The project meeting participants reviewed SmartEIZ achievements so far and discussed about remaining deliverables and expected impacts with…
On 10th April, 2018, the coordinators of twinning projects in Croatia have met with representatives of the Croatian Science Foundation at the premises of the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. The objective of the meeting was exploring possibilities of connecting the Croatian Science Foundation’s program „Partnership in Research“ with Horizon 2020/ Twinning projects. The representatives of…