Soča valley development centre Slovenia and S4

Miro Kristan,

Bridges Kick off

Ljubljana, 20. 4. 2015

Slovenia

General information Population: 2 milion people

Surface: 20.273 km² Municipalities: 212

No regions

Economic situation GDP per capita: 18.093 EUR 12,6% unemployment rate

Average salary: 1.574,22 EUR

Region profile

• Regional development agency

• Slovenia – Goriška region, border with Italy, Austria

• 2.300 km2

• 120.000 inhabitants

Complementarities & policy relevance

1. HEALTHY living and working Environment: Systems solutions

R&D + clustering

Supply and demand side

2. NATURAL and TRADITIONAL resources for the FUTURE Large no of stakeholders without obvious key player

Problem of critical mass

Facilitation

3. (S)Industry 4.0 Strong players

Joint approach for more comprehensive products and solutions

Longer term perspective needed

Strengthening links to SMEs (embedding) & new business creation

R&D, clustering & internationalisation

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5

Health -medicine

Factories of the Future

Smart Buildings & Home with Wood chain Smart Cities &

Communities

Sustainable tourism

Sustainable food

production

Networks for the transition

to Circular economy

Mobility

Materials as final products

(S)INDUSTRY 4.0

HEALTHY LIVING AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT NATURAL AND

TRADITIONAL RESOURCES

3 priority domains with

9 usage domains

RDI: from research to the market

1-3

3-6

6-9

9+ 6

Basic science

Improvement of international competitiveness and research excellence to participate in value chains

PROOF OF CONCEPT

PROTOTYPE

MARKET

Support to RDI proccesses: • Smaller innovation projects • SME Instr. Plus projects • Bigger RDI projects

Revolving sources

only!

Better utilisation and further development of research

infrastructure

Innovative Public Procurement

Complementarities with

Horizon 2020: (Teaming, ERC, Twinning…)

Internationalisation

International initiatives and programmes (EUREKA)

Bridge to Innovation eco-system Knowledge and Technology Transfer Offices

Start-up community

Social Innovation

HR, tax breaks,….

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Strategic partnerships • +/- around policy domain ~ approx. 10 +

• 30-60 stakeholders each providing funding (also in kind); Gov as facilitator

• Triple helix: – 5-10 large companies

– 10-25 SMEs

– Knowledge institutions

– Government

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Call closing today!

12 MIO per year

7. Adapt S3 to your needs S4

Innovation vouchers

SMEs

Grant usually small

Support innovation

at SMEs

Motivation/funding of first steps

- External support

Innovation vouchers (SLO)

Final aim: - Support to SMEs at the process of innovation - Support at protecting intellectual property rights

Eligible costs: - External experts (only registered RDI)

miro.kristan@prc.si