1 / 11

Experience and Lessons of Utilizing National and EU Funds for Innovation in Bulgaria

Enhancing Bulgaria’s Competitiveness through Innovation TA. Experience and Lessons of Utilizing National and EU Funds for Innovation in Bulgaria. Ruslan Stefanov Coordinator Innovation.bg Group. Outline. Strategic underpinning Available instruments

marcos
Download Presentation

Experience and Lessons of Utilizing National and EU Funds for Innovation in Bulgaria

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Enhancing Bulgaria’s Competitiveness through Innovation TA Experience and Lessons of Utilizing National and EU Funds for Innovation in Bulgaria Ruslan Stefanov Coordinator Innovation.bg Group

  2. Outline • Strategic underpinning • Available instruments • Performance assessment: strengths vs. weaknesses • National Science Fund (NSF) • National Innovation Fund (NIF) • OP Competitiveness (OPC) • Conclusions and recommendations

  3. Strategic framework • European dimension: Europe 2020 => draft national goal R&D expenditures = 1.4 ~ 2% of GDP • Draft National R&D Strategy and National Innovation Strategy => targets not met + update needed for 2020 • Legal framework: Law on Encouragement of Scientific Research […] => outdated and patchy • Financial underpinning => annual national planning vs. 7 year EU / roughly EU – BG sources parity

  4. Position of the National Science Fund and National Innovation Fund Along the Science to Market Axis

  5. Annual Financial Weight of National Instruments in Million €

  6. NSF: Top Three Strengths and Weaknesses

  7. NIF: Top Three Strengths and Weaknesses

  8. Innovation not a priority in 2007 - 2013 % of total amount allocated for both Convergence and Competitiveness objectives, compared to the total Community allocations in all themes Source: Strategic Report of Republic of Bulgaria for 2009, Annex 3 Financial Progress by Priority Themes

  9. Low Absorption: Identified Problems and Implemented Measures

  10. Capacity of absorption of EU funds • State administration and managing authorities:Complicated and prolonged the rules and proceduresGradually build up their capacity and information systemsCurrently trying to improve the procedures • Beneficiaries: Capacity of beneficiaries varies. Lesser experience of Bulgarian firms; not eligible under the pre-accession instruments. • Consultants: Developed consultancy market (Bulgarian and foreign firms) Different levels of professional expertise. Some problems with quality. Capacity to absorb EU funds

  11. Conclusions & Recommendations • Most serious issue: lack of strategic coordination and policy underpinning • Problems with absorption similar to all national instruments, incl. operational programs • No stable national R&D financial framework • Performance can be improved by leveraging national instruments and EU framework programs

More Related