Innovation.bg
About this good practice
The initiative consists of three main components:
Since 2004 the Innovation.bg report offers stakeholders a comprehensive annual performance assessment tool, which provides an independent analysis of the national innovation system and the innovation performance of the national economy, based on the original survey and other micro‐studies. Innovation.bg applies its own original methodology to assess the degree of business innovation activity, based on the understanding of the types of innovation and the degree of novelty of introduced innovative products and processes.
The National Innovation Forum is an annual high‐profile event, which brings together all stakeholders to discuss the innovation environment in Bulgaria. The event passes under the highest‐level auspices and with the participation of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Prime Minister, and relevant Ministers. The event is organised by ARC Fund with the support of the European Commission and in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy. The National Innovation Forum showcases the performance of top Bulgarian innovative companies and is an occasion Enterprise Innovation Award ceremony.
The Innovative Enterprise of the Year contest acknowledges innovative enterprises, which have developed new or have significantly improved their existing products, services or processes over the last three years. The European Commission has declared the contest a national good practice.
Resources needed
ЕUR 50 000
Evidence of success
The Innovation.bg 2021 is the only exhaustive assessment of the Bulgarian economy provided regularly.
In its 2021 virtual edition, the National Innovation Forum gathered more than 270 representatives of the policy, research and business communities to share views on Bulgaria’s capacity for recovery and resilience through innovation over the second year in a row, marked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than 200 Bulgarian enterprises have been nominated for the Innovative Enterprise of the Year.
Potential for learning or transfer
The Innovation.bg initiative follows a holistic approach which is fully consistent with international and European practices in this field. It provides a platform for analysing the innovation potential at the national (originally developed Gross innovation product), sectoral (including the energy sector, construction, pharmaceutical, etc.), regional (based on Regional innovation profiles and Smart specialization priorities, and company (original Survey of innovation activity of Bulgarian companies) levels.
Following one and the same methodology established for the whole series of editions, the Innovation.bg report can be recognized as a valuable tool for developing academic research in the field of innovation policy, technology transfer, measuring of innovation potential at national, regional and sectoral level.
The whole Innovation.bg methodology was transferred and applied by partnering organizations in North Macedonia and Moldova.
Further information
Documents
Innovation_2022_ENG_WEB.pdf
Website
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