Specific Objectives

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Istanbul ForumCountry ExerciseSLOVAKIA
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Step 1 Diagnosis Key issues you are planning
to address

• lack of knowledge transfer between academic
  research and business sector
• low output of RD and innovations in the business
  sector
• lack of utilization of academic research results
  in innovative activities of companies
• low mobility of researchers between academia and
  business sector
• lack of instutions/project of collaboration

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Step 1 DiagnosisHow does your country compare
to other countries with respect to these issues?

• number of researchers per capita relatively high
• overall RD spending (public and private)
• public expenditures comparable to the average of
  EU10 countries
• overall expenditures (public and private) very
  low if compared to EU15
• patenting output (patents per capita) quite low

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Step 1 DiagnosisWhat are the key causes of the
problems you have identified?

• no overall public innovation policy framework
• inappropriate mechanisms for public fundig of
  research
• lack of emphasis on the quality and relevance of
  the research
• lack of public incentives for business RD
  activities
• underdeveloped VC industry

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Step 2 Objective of the intervention

• Create overall public innovation framework
• change public financing mechanisms of RD
• improve public incentives for business RD
  activities
• remove barriers to mobility of researchers

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Step 3 Description of the Proposed
InterventionWhat are the proposed activities?

• new law on public financing of RD
• refocus financing toward competitive,
  project-oriented financing
• set-up new financing programmes for high-quality
  research and collaborative projects
• centers of excellence
• mobility schemes
• set-up efficient schemes for public co-financing
  of RD in the business sector

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Step 3 Description of the Proposed
InterventionHow much might they cost?

• no extra costs in the initial stage
• more efficient reallocation of resources
• continuous gradual increase in public (private)
  funding
• reallocate resources inside the state public
  pudget
• need to utilize EU funds

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Step 4 Institutions involved

• Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Education
• prepare the draft law on RD financing
• prepare new public schemes
• Slovak Academy of Science, main research
  universities, main business/employer assocations
• substantial input into all measures being
  prepared

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Step 5 Results Indicators

• uptake of public research in innovative
  activities of SMEs
• private RD expenditures
• number of researchers involved in collaborative
  projects
• passage of the new law on RD financing in the
  parliament
• usage of newly set-up public financing schemes

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Step 6 Background Information

• Slovakia
• Renata Kralikova
• kralikovar_at_employment.gov.sk
• Martin Bruncko
• mbruncko_at_mfsr.sk