Innovation and Technology Transfer in Serbia | 04.05.2011. | Ohrid European Commission Enterprise...

Innovation and Technology Transfer in Serbia | 04.05.2011. | Ohrid

European CommissionEnterprise and Industry

Innovation and Technology Transfer in Serbia

ICEIRD, May 4th, Ohrid



Practice in Serbia in Innovation Activities in relation to experiences of other countries

• According to the global competitiveness index, Serbia is at 85th place(ranked ahead of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania) The report of the World Economic Forum for 2008-2009.

• According to the innovation index, Serbia is at 91th place(also ranked ahead of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, but also ahead of Bulgaria)

• Serbia is at 55th place according to the innovation indicators, according to (ranked ahead of Romania) The Economist Intelligence Unit’s document titled ”A new ranking of the world's most innovative countries”, sponsored by company Cisco

Source: Ministry of Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia



Current conditions in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, given by

the strategy of RD

“Intellectual property in Serbia is either not produced or not protected "

• According to the basic definition, technological development projects should result in directly applicable technical solutions

(such as applied technical solutions, patents, pilot plants, new varieties, innovation, technological advancement).

• In the previous period (2003 - 2007) in the field of technological development, over 3,400 technical solutions were implemented.

• Despite this high number of technical solutions, the number of patents registered by the R&D organisations in the period 2003 - 2009 was ONLY 54 patent applications.




• This figure is not much better in companies either, where approximately 20 patents are registered annually,

• However, natural persons registered over 300 patents each year in this period.

• Based on interviews with a number of these natural persons, it can be concluded that the lack of institutional support for patenting as the SRO or the company caused that many of them decide to cut costs by submitting the patent application in person.

In any case, the total number of submitted patent applications is quite poor.




The structure of domestic patent applicants

1024

346

426

466

318

351

1329

390

2 19

376

4 15

370

1824

198

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100

200

300

400

500

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009okt.

Институти и факултети Предузећа Физичка лица

With its results, Serbia is at the very bottom of Europe’s list.

Institutes and faculties Companies Individuals




Strategy of scientific and technological development 2010-2015

Support to the development of innovative activities

The vision of scientific and technological development of the Republic of Serbia:

"Serbia as an innovative country in which scientists reach European standards, contribute to the overall level of knowledge society and the technological development of economy"




• Goals of the Scientific and Technological Development of Serbia in the field of innovation are:

• Establishing a national innovation system

• Law on innovation

• Establishing a national innovation systemNational innovation system is a complex network of companies, universities, R&D institutes, professional associations, financial institutions, education and information infrastructure, government agencies and public resources forgeneration, diffusion and application of scientific and technological knowledge inparticular country.

• Law on innovation with the provisions relating to scientific research was last renewed in March 2010.




Fund for innovation activities

• founded in order to support the development of innovative activities, andto establish public-private partnership between the direct and indirect budget users, public enterprises, international financial institutions, banks, private business entities etc.

• The Fund will operate as a separate legal entity in order to encourage the development and operations of:

• newly established companies that have a business idea with the potential to ensure business success, profit and growth of the company, based on the commercial success of innovation and

• existing technology companies that develop, manufacture and distribute innovative products, processes or services with a high share of knowledge and new technologies.




Register of innovative activities

• In accordance with the Act, the Ministry of Science and Technology maintains the Register of innovative activities, consists off:

• Register of innovative organisations,• Register of natural persons - innovators and• Records of technology companies;

• According to the latest information, the register of innovative entities includes:• 75 innovative organisations• 129 natural persons, innovators• 5 infrastructure entities to support Innovative activities(Information from Sep 2010)

Source: Ministry of Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia, Serbian Chamber of Commerce



Innovative potential

0,5

1

1,5

2

2,5Number of realised patents per million

Number of scientificworks per millionpopulation

Investment in R&D per citizenInvestment in R&Das % of GDP

Number of scientists per 1000 operating population

EU-27

Јаpan

USA

Germany

0

Serbia

Source: Committee for Technology Innovation - Serbian Chamber of Commerce www.pks.rs/inovacije



Activities conducted on UNSin order to support innovative activities

• Best Technology Innovation competition• European Enterprise Network• Science Technology Park

• 60 Spin-off companies from UNS• Finished by 2013.

• Project MORDIC (IPA cross border cooperation between Universities of Szeged and Novi Sad)

• Business Incubator Novi Sad• Clusters: ICT and KKIV• UNESCO Chair for Entrepreneurial Studies: Module HIGH-TECH

entrepreunership • Cooperation with SBAN



Best Technology Innovationcompetition

• Organised since 2005.• Categories:

• Innovative ideas, • Realized innovations, • Potentials, • High school teams

• Support innovative activities through:• education (trainings), • consultancy, • promotion and • tangible assets (cash reward)

Team TOP014, the winner of BTI 2010



BTI - the results

• 65 newly established high-tech companies • database of 3990 Innovators / innovative companies in Serbia • 3612 trained researchers, high-tech companies, students,

innovators, etc. • 424 teams made the BP, a 117 teams made MP• 250 reviewers • 295 held in trainings• 48,585,000 RSD awards from MSTD, Republic of Serbia• 8,515,000 RSD awarded as special rewards from other

organisations • Ratings finals on national television more than 800,000

viewers.

Some results, however, are only now becoming visible.



Strawberry energy:Strawberry energy: Solar charger for mobile phones

• The best student team at NTI 2008

• 2011 First place at the European Commission in Brussels in the category of public consumption of energy

• in competition with 309 teams from all over Europe



Serbian Business Angels NetworkSerbian Business Angels Network

• During the 2010, seven training sessions were held for representatives of 11 Innovative companies, on the method of presentation and negotiation with the capital owners, the so-called Business angels.

• At the end of the year, a meeting was organised between innovators and representatives of Serbian Business Angels Network, the first of its kind in Serbia



European EnterpriseNetwork

• Dissemination of information on business in the EU market and EU funds• Business Cooperation Database (BCD) profiles• Innovation and Technology Transfer

Technology Offer (TO) and the Technology Request (TR) sections• Research projects and dissemination of information on programmes for research

and developmentCIP and FP7 projects

• During the 2010 five contracts were signed by the UNS: 3 research partnership agreements and 2 commercial contracts (partnerships for applying for FP7 programme)


Contact: Mr. Vladimir NikicEnterprise Europe Network – SerbiaUniversity of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 5Tel: +381 21 485 20 30, Fax: +381 21 450 [email protected]

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