SmartEIZ booklet
SmartEIZ booklet
List of publications presented at SmartEIZ Training Workshops
At the ninthTraining Workshop which was held in Zagreb in April 2018 the following researchers presented the following papers: Aralica, Zoran “Mapping GVC in Croatia” Vidaković Peruško, Ivana; Kovač, Katarina and Jošić, Miroslav “Croatia in global value chains”* At the eighth Training Workshop which was held in Maastricht in March 2018 the following researchers presented the following papers: Vargas Cuevas, Fernando…
Survey on Clusters of Competitiveness in Croatia
Dr Ivan-Damir Anić and Dr Zoran Aralica from the Institute of Economics, Zagreb and Dr Katarina Bačić prepared a report on survey on clusters of competitiveness in Croatia. Key messages of the report are: There is general consensus among respondents that progress/performance of CCCs is not strongly visible, and that CCCs underperformed compared to expectations.…
Survey on competitiveness cluster presented by SmartEIZ team
On 20th December, 2017, Ivana Rašić Bakarić and Ivan Damir Anić, members of the SmartEIZ project team, presented the results of the survey on competitiveness clusters in Croatia, at the assembly session of the Croatian Cluster of Competitiveness of the Wood-Processing Sector. Survey analysed 13 clusters of competitiveness (HKK) with the aim to explore the…
Visiting Training Session on Developing questionnaires/surveys and Household level survey data analysis
Second visiting training session was held from 11th to 15th December 2017 at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb. Prof Anthony Arundel from UNU-MERIT delivered an intermediate mini-course on survey design and implementation. The course provided instructions on how to design and implement a survey, from initial preparation to data editing. This course was followed by…
Training Workshop on evaluations of innovation policies
The Sixth SmartEIZ Training Workshop on evaluations of innovation policies was held from 21th to 22th November 2017 at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb. The first day of the workshop was followed by various policy makers from Croatia and led to interesting discussions with them about what can be learned from these evaluation studies. The…
Training Workshop on Skills and technical change: policy issues
The Fifth SmartEIZ Training Workshop on “Skills and technical change: policy issues” was held from 30th to 31th October 2017 at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb. The workshop lasted 2 days and saw the participation of nine presenters. During the two days, EIZ researchers and their colleagues had the opportunity to listen to and interact with…
The third project meeting held in Zagreb
The third Project meeting was held on November 6, 2017 at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb. The main objective of this project meeting was to facilitate SmartEIZ project implementation in the remaining period. The programme was divided in the part where the partners informed attendees about the implementation of the activities related to training workshops,…
Training Workshop on evaluations of innovation policies
Training Workshop on evaluations of innovation policies will be held at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb from 21 to 22 November 2017. This two days training workshop is devoted to the evaluation of innovation policies. Day one is more suited to policy makers, but can also be very interesting for economic researchers and advanced students. Various…
How to select and develop Key Enabling Technologies and policies to advance manufacturing in Croatia? Localising roles for innovation researchers and policy makers
Dr René Wintjes from UNU-MERIT and Dr Zoran Aralica from the Institute of Economics, Zagreb prepared a policy brief on how to select and develop Key Enabling Technologies and policies to advance manufacturing in Croatia. The key messages of the policy brief are: Key Enabling Technologies as defined by the European Commission include: photonics, nanotechnology,…