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
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MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
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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Slovenia - SWOT
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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.
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All of the innovation leaders have higher than average scores in Public-private copublications 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.
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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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SLOVENIAN INDUSTRIAL POLICY – SIP
INDUSTRIAL POLICY FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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."
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MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
INDUSTRIAL POLICY FOR GROWTH
AND DEVELOPMENT - SUMMARY
SLOVENIAN INDUSTRIAL POLICY GUIDELINES FOR ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
1. IMPROVING THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
1.1. Functioning of the rule of law
1.2. Friendlier administrative environment
1.3. A more flexible labour market and education adapted to the
economy
1.4. Encouraging tax environment
1.5. Environmental, energy and spatial policy
1.6. Comprehensive supporting environment for business innovation
1.7. Improving access to finance
1.8. Environment promoting creativity, entrepreneurship and
innovation (CEI)
1.9. Effective management of companies, especially state-owned
enterprises
1.10. Corporate social responsibility
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INDUSTRIAL POLICY FOR GROWTH
AND DEVELOPMENT - SUMMARY
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
resources
3.2. The challenge of sustainable mobility
3.3. Food, health and ageing population
3.4. Potential of key enabling technologies - KET
3.5. ACTIVITIES FOR THE LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY
5.1. Promoting internationalisation and the utilisation of globalisation effects
5.2. Promoting industrial development and strengthening brands
5.3. Restructuring companies in all stages of development
4. EU INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY OBJECTIVES
4.1. COSME
4.2. Horizon 2020
4.3. Cohesion Policy for the period 2014-2020
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PRIORITY FIELDS - CHALLENGES
Challenge
Priority technology field*
Environment- energy
challenge & smart use of
natural resources
Environmental technologies (efficient
use of energy, renuable energy
Manufacturing (especially woodsources…)
processing industry)
Sustainable mobility
Technologies for sustainable mobilty
Food, health & ageing of
population
Biotechnoloy & other technologies
related to this challenge
Nanotechnology, micro- &
fotonics,
Potencial KET – Key enabling nanoelectronics,
biotechnology,
advanced
materials,
technologies
advanced production & process
technologies
Key industrial sectors*
Energy / »Smart« systems
Sustainable housing
Chemical & Process industry
Avtomotive industry
Pharmaceutical industry
Food processing industry &
sustinable food production
Sustainable turism
ICT
Electro industry & electronics
New materials
Metal – manufacturing, machines
& toolmaking
* 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
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EU new programing period 20142020 – 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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MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
Thank you for attention!
MSc. Sabina Koleša
Director General
Ministry of Economic Development and Technology
sabina.kolesa@gov.si