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Contact: Bratislav Stoiljković, MBA, Chief Commercial Officer Email: bratislav.stoiljkovic@cimgrupa.eu "The ReFLEX Story started in 2009 when the idea arose to prepare an R&D project proposal which will focus on small and medium-sized enterprises by providing a business process management solution suitable for their specific needs, aiming at turning them into flexible, agile and responsive-to-changes entities. The project idea was based on the identified common problems of SMEs, dominantly ...

The topics presented in the report are important because many of the drivers of and the challenges to the recovery of industrial demand and employment are to be found outside Europe. The new industrial markets outside the EU are key to European competitiveness, particularly in the context of the recovery. More importantly, however, they are crucial for European industrial competitiveness in the long term. This is because the emerging industrialised economies are increasingly competing with ...

... and Herzegovina, and by Gretchen Kalonji, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences. Ministers and high level officials, experts of science, higher education and research from 11 South East European countries will participate: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey. The Expert Meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation for South East Europe to convene on November 22, 2012 as a preparatory event to the round table will discuss the above-indicated STI system capacity in SEE and pay particular attention to the research infrastructures, statistical data, regional networks and ...

The Global Competitiveness Report 2012–2013 is being released amid a long period of economic uncertainty. The tentative recovery that seemed to be gaining ground during 2010 and the first half of 2011 has given way to renewed concerns. The global economy faces a number of significant and interrelated challenges that could hamper a genuine upturn after an economic crisis half a decade long in much of the world, especially in the most advanced economies. ...

Apart from those presentations given during the plenary sessions, two workshops were organised covering one of these thematic objectives "Strengthening research, technological development and innovation" and "Enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs". The conclusions gained during the seminar are being collected in a document as a valid input for the preparation of the next round of programmes in the area, considering the legacies of the current programming period to be maintained and the ...

The survey on consumers’ attitudes, expectations and behaviours towards traditional food is innovative in the Balkans and highlights some interesting results. Generally, Balkan consumers express a positive attitude towards traditional food. In order to explain consumers’ behaviour towards traditional food, it can be said that there are different types of consumers giving more or less importance to components considered as traditional. Thus, the future supply of traditional foods should ...

This publication includes also the presentation of the FOCUS-BALKANS project (Focus on food consumers in the Balkans). This project focuses on the important challenge of filling knowledge gaps and rebuilding networks. The general objective of the FOCUS BALKANS project is to improve competencies and understanding in the field of food consumer science in the Balkans countries. This will result in a stronger participation of WBC scientists in projects related to food consumer science and an ...

... the triple helix model of innovation. It also provides for a critical analysis of the Macedonian reality in terms of innovation. More specifically, the paper analyzes data on R&D in the private and public sector and the number of innovative activities measured by patents field and granted in Macedonia. It also examines the relations between the academia and the business sector, and the role of the public sector and the government in initiating the whole process of innovation. Whether, and to what extent, new hybrid forms of triple helix are emerging in Macedonia so as to shape the ...

... Ph.D., Fac. of Forestry Sciences, Albania, Focal Point (2004-2012). Prof. Dr. Mersudin Avdibgovic, Ph.D. Fac. of For. Sarajevo, BIH, Focal Point (2004-2012) and FOPER MSc Coordinator. Dane Marceta, M.Sc., Fac. of Forest. Banja Luka, BIH, Focal Point (2009-2012). Prof. Dr. Makedonka Stojanovska, Ph.D., Fac. of Forest. Macedonia, Focal Point (2004-2012). Mirjana Stevanov, M.Sc., Inst. of Low.For. and Env., Serbia, Focal point (2010-2012). Prof. Dr. Stjepan Posavec, Ph.D., Fac. of Forest. Croatia, FOPER Project associate "The FOPER story started in 2003, when a consortium of forestry faculties and research institutes decided to bring to life ...

... Contact: Prof. Svetomir Hadzi Jordanov President of the Society of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia, Skopje Phone & fax.: + 389 2 3064 392 E-mail: shj@tmf.ukim.edu.mk "Wondering what story to tell as a success one, I’ve chosen – the organizing of a chemical Congress. This September, 5th – 9th, The Society of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia (SCTM) had its 22nd Congress in ...

Contact: Dr. Marjan Petreski Vice-Dean for Research, School of Business Economics and Management Chairman, UACS Research Committee Assistant professor of Macroeconomics and Research methods in economics University American College Skopje Email: marjan.petreski@uacs.edu.mk "I can still remember the first day at the University American College Skopje (UACS) as a research coordinator at that time. We set our goal to increase research and be ‘teach and research’ university, when all the others are ...

... them to a wider public. Partners in the project have been asked to suggest persons, projects or firms that come to mind when thinking of ´success & innovation´ - two success stories were published afterwards in WBC-INCO.NET Journal (Spring/Summer 2012): one from Albania and the other from FYR of Macedonia (page 14-15). Since we hope that WBC-INCO.NET, our project, could contribute to some of your positive experiences we also decided to collect such stories that highlight our impact in the region. If you want to share your success story with us and a wider public or if you have ...

... administrative burden of tax compliance, and providing greater protections to minority shareholders. Since 2005, Morocco has implemented 15 business regulatory reforms. Besides Morocco, 11 other economies are recognized as having the most improved ease of doing business across several areas of regulation as measured by the report: Moldova, FYR of Macedonia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Latvia, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Burundi, the Solomon Islands, the Republic of Korea, Armenia and Colombia. The Republic of Korea was a new entrant to the top 10. Governments in 125 economies out of 183 measured implemented a total of 245 business regulatory reforms—13 ...

... red tape, a new World Bank report concludes. The Doing Business report analyzes regulations that apply to businesses during their life cycles, including start-ups and operations, trading across borders, paying taxes, and protecting investors. The aggregate ease of doing business rankings are based on 10 indicators and cover 185 economies. Macedonia ranks 23 out of 185 countries listed in the report for the ease of doing business, followed by Montenegro in 51st place, Croatia in 84th place, Albania in 85th place, Serbia in 86th place and Kosovo* in 98th place. Bosnia and Herzegovina is in 126th place ...

... by the demands of the EU accession process and by a desire to attract foreign investment - says Valentina Saltane, co-author of the "Doing Business" 2013 report. Doing Business 2013 notes Serbia as one of the top 10 reformers globally, implementing reforms in starting a business, contract enforcement and resolving insolvency. Macedonia and Croatia are also two of the 20 top global improvers on doing business indicators ...

... the field of mobile technology, Providing opportunities for accelerated growth of businesses related with developing mobile applications, Overcoming barriers for achieving multinational and multicultural partnerships, Establishing a network of international mentors, experts and managers for providing continued support for further development of the businesses created during the Camp, and Accelerating Macedonia’s integration with the developed countries in the area of information society and sync with the global trends in mobile technologies. The structure of the three-day camp is composed of two parts: I. Capacity development program for the participants that will ...

... and activities still need to be developed. Bosnia-Herzegovina is suffering from detrimental political and economic circumstances after the civil war. While there was considerable research and KT before the war, both are hardly existing in the country today, and for political decision makers it has low priority. The FYR of Macedonia lost large parts of its industrial base in the past 20 years, and academic research and innovation activities also declined. KT is largely taking place informally. However, there are political activities to improve innovation and KT. In Montenegro, while IP legislation has been put in place, the topic of IP ...

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