In the second edition of the “Gray Book of Innovations” by NALED, suggestions for improving the innovative ecosystem in Serbia can be highlighted. Of all the recommendations from the first edition, nine have already been implemented, while for six, some procedural steps have been taken, and work has begun to address them.
Among the recommendations, ten have been singled out for priority resolution, and additional funds will be used to finance innovative projects (pension fund resources can be used as alternative sources of financing).
The first recommendation is to create conditions for collaboration between science and the economy through funded doctorates. The second is to ensure that the conditions of entrepreneurship development support program competitions do not exclude users of business incubators and other support organizations. The third recommendation is to enable and regulate conditions for the voluntary pension fund to invest in AIF, i.e., alternative investment funds and entrepreneurial capital.
Next is the specification of conditions for documenting the costs of creating digital assets, followed by defining the concept of a sample significant for research and development and simplifying the import of unregistered medical devices for research and development purposes. The seventh recommendation is to introduce a system of aggregate permits and notifications for the import and export of biological material, and the eighth is to abolish arbitrary restrictions at the local self-government level for setting up mobile phone radio base stations.
At the end of the list of priority recommendations is securing the storage of data from local self-government units in the State Data Center for data management and storage, using cloud systems, and regulating the conditions for implementing telemedicine.
“We notice that innovations require significant digital infrastructure. One of the most important things is broadband internet. Without it, we are limited to development centers being confined to urban areas. The obstacle to this is that we have a much more developed system of base stations that will cover us with a quality and fast signal, fast internet,” said Dušan Vasiljević from NALED.
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