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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 ...

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