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Croatia
About this country
The Republic of Croatia has been involved in EUREKA as full member as of June 2000. In February 2009 The Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia transferred operative implementation of EUREKA program to Business Innovation Centre of Croatia – BICRO and in May 2010 financial management and contracting. In May 2014, new agency HAMAG-BICRO became the National EUREKA Office for Croatia.
HAMAG-BICRO is the Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovations and Investments established by the Government of the Republic of Croatia with the purpose of enhancing SME development and promoting investment. The Agency is an independent institution under the supervision of the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts.
HAMAG-BICRO's main objectives are the following:
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Increasing commercialization of knowledge
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Raising awareness about the value of innovation
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Establishment of knowledge- and technology-based companies
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Transfer of knowledge and technology solutions from science to business
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Development of adequate technology infrastructure
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Creation and development of venture capital industry
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Strengthening cooperation between the scientific and business community
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Promoting investment
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Issuing guarantees for bank credits to SMEs
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Grant schemes implementation
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Co-financing consultancy services
Tab 1: Country data
The dashboard summarises country activity in the EUREKA Network projects, Eurostars (1 and 2) and Clusters instruments from 2013-17. The user can select the country by using the selector in the top right corner.
Number of projects and total (public and private) investment/costs are shown in the bar charts at the top of the dashboard. Organisation type (bar) and technology/market area (pie) are shown on the bottom left. The user can switch between technology and market area using the control.
Technology and market areas:
The collaboration map in the bottom right side shows the number of collaborations between the selected country and other countries across the three instruments. The user can zoom into the map to identify the number of collaborations with each country. If more than one organisation from a country participates in a project, this is counted as one country collaboration (project-level).
Users can zoom with the usual controls, and scroll around the map by holding shift while moving.
Tab 2: Programme overview
The dashboard displays an overview of EUREKA activity across the three instruments - EUREKA Network projects, Eurostars (1 and 2) and Clusters – from 2013-17.
The user can select the preferred indicator - number of projects or total investment (€m) - using the control in the top right corner. Clicking on a row, column or cell in the table to filters the map below.
Clicking on a country in the map filters the table above. Users can zoom with the usual controls, and scroll around the map by holding shift while moving.
Projects are attributed to years as follows:
- Network projects: year of project endorsement by EUREKA
- Eurostars: call year
- Clusters: year of labelling (data includes labelled projects which are not yet running)
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