Slovenia Gives Initiative for European Innovation Centre
Slovenia on Tuesday proposed to the EU the establishment of a European innovation centre that would network in one place all subjects which take part in an innovation process, as well as form a support environment on the national level.
"The idea of setting up a European and several national innovation centres is daring, but a detailed presentation is to follow," its proponent, State Secretary at the Economics Ministry Andrijana Starina Kosem, said.
The idea she presented at the session of EU ministers on competitiveness originates from Slovenia's plan to set up an innovation centre to solve its problem of having a broad support environment which, however, lacks support for innovation.
"We want to set up a support environment providing everything, from the protection of intellectual property to successful applications for European projects and networking of all subjects," the ministry representatives explained.
Slovenia is also interested in hosting the European centre headquarters, which would be financed from the EU budget, so as not to burden the national budget. The initiative is to be explained in more detail on one of the EU Council working groups, Starina Kosem explained.
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