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• Organization and coordination of scienceresearch<br />

and development projects for the<br />

needs of industry in collaboration with<br />

members of the University and other relevant<br />

institutions;<br />

• Supporting regional development<br />

and retention of enterpreneurial and<br />

qualified workforce in the region;<br />

• Business support to enterprises that have<br />

entered the Incubator of Technology –<br />

development center in Osijek Ltd. and<br />

outside it.<br />

4.2.2.6 Innovative companies<br />

Rudjer Innovations Ltd. – RI (www.r-i.hr)<br />

began operating in early 2007. as a daughter<br />

company of the Rudjer Boskovic Institute<br />

with the aim to encourage <strong>cooperation</strong> and<br />

partnership of research institutes, faculties<br />

and innovative communities with enterprises<br />

from the economy. Rudjer Innovations<br />

represent and protect intellectual properties<br />

of innovators and have an important role<br />

in technology transfer and innovative<br />

technologies application. The company<br />

connects science with the economy and<br />

industry, and through partnerships with<br />

academic, innovative community, and<br />

economy is open to the entire Croatian<br />

community, providing them with support<br />

through the commercialization of ideas,<br />

innovations, or results of scientific research.<br />

Technology transfer includes appropriate<br />

management of intellectual property and its<br />

transfer from science to industry so as the<br />

innovative ideas become a finished product.<br />

4.2.2.7 Local communities<br />

Regional Development Agency Porin<br />

Ltd. (www.porin.hr), has arisen from the<br />

Business Incubator of the same name, which<br />

was established in 1996. in Rijeka. Regional<br />

development agency is an institution for<br />

formulating and implementing projects that<br />

encourage regional economic development.<br />

Through work integration of regional<br />

economic entities, and local and regional<br />

institutions, through promotion of regional<br />

resources and attracting foreign and domestic<br />

investments, it stimulates development of<br />

enterpreneurship, application of modern<br />

technologies and employment, as well as<br />

the quality of life in Primorsko-Goranska<br />

County. Basic activities are aimed at:<br />

• Drafting and implementation of strategic<br />

documents for Primorsko-Goranska County,<br />

and monitoring of regional development<br />

for the Regional operational program PGC<br />

2008-2013 and preparation of the County’s<br />

development strategy;<br />

• Raising the competitiveness of the<br />

region and economic operators through<br />

involvement in international and local<br />

consortia, systematic enterpreneurship<br />

(networking, internationalization,<br />

counseling, working with target groups,<br />

growth and development of SMEs,<br />

warranty instruments), institutional<br />

<strong>cooperation</strong> with domestic and foreign<br />

partners, systematic entrepreneurial<br />

infrastructure (business incubators, info<br />

center, EU info home);<br />

• International <strong>cooperation</strong> through economic<br />

<strong>cooperation</strong> and the drafting<br />

and implementation of EU projects in<br />

accordance with most EU framework<br />

programs;<br />

• Attracting domestic and foreign investors;<br />

• Management and development of human<br />

resources through informal education for<br />

all target groups and their availability on<br />

the labor market;<br />

• Promotion of the region and economic<br />

operators.<br />

Technology Park Zagreb Ltd. – TPZ<br />

(www.raza-tpz.hr/Default.aspx?sid=153), part of the<br />

Development Agency of Zagreb, is the first<br />

technology park, business incubator for high<br />

technologies in Croatia, established in 1994.<br />

Technology Park acts as an entrepreneurial<br />

incubator, and helps small enterpreneurs to<br />

realize their entrepreneurial initiatives in<br />

the early stages of growth and development.<br />

Mission of TPZ is:<br />

• Creation of new entrepreneurs through the<br />

encouragement of entrepreneurship in the<br />

areas of development and high technologies<br />

in the City of Zagreb and through helping<br />

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Current state in the WBC region 4

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