For the first step when founding a startup, one primarily needs an original idea; this was confirmed by Lior Romanowsky, the founder of the Israeli technology company “Spartans Technologies.”
At today’s workshop, he shared his experience in leading big digital products and digital transformation processes with the attendees, but he also stated the key issues when developing a new business venture and what one should particularly focus on when entering the market so that the startup does not fail.
Miloš Grozdanović, the Science and Technology Park director’s assistant, participated in the Culture Center “Banski Dvor” in Banja Luka at the panel “Business Infrastructure – Technology Park” within the 11. Danube Business Forum, organized by the City of Banja Luka and the City Development Agency.
The forum promotes the Danube strategy, and goals are, among other things, directed towards connecting people, ideas and markets, and their needs, as well as building infrastructure and developing energy systems, and creating optimal conditions for strengthening institutional and human capacities and encouraging them to act more rationally and efficiently, promote sustainable development, competition, safety, energy efficiency, environmental protection, social policy, and public and private partnership.
At the second workshop in the “Valorization of Knowledge EU” series conducted by the EU Info Point Niš in partnership with the Science and Technology Park Niš – “Knowledge as the key for business development”, we learned that intellectual property is the core of companies in the 21st century, the driving force of innovations, the competitiveness and growth of business, as well as an asset for validation and attracting investors for startup companies.
Through the discussion and examples given by Dr. Nedeljko Milosavljević and Dr. Milan Banić, we found out that patents, brands, industrial design, and copyright can serve as a “shield” and/or “sword” and, as such, be the key to business development.
At this workshop, as well as further workshops in this series, EU experts for business and innovations and experts for knowledge transfer will offer their expertise and support by means of a webinar for the connection of research and its application, representing examples of intermediaries connecting knowledge producers and knowledge users, especially small and medium-sized companies.
The Science and Technology Park Niš held the opening ceremony for the Public Call for employers – a platform for workplace training within the “Education to Employment (E2E)” project. The details of the Public Call were presented, as well as the benefits companies expect by participating in this program, after which there was a discussion about experiences in cooperation on the program were discussed in a panel discussion with representatives from partner companies STAX Technologies, DMV, Photon Optronics, and Inmold.
The main purpose of the Call for employers is to provide technical and financial support to employers from the private sector who need competent workforce, through creating different possibilities for learning by working through the Platform for workplace training for current or future employment seekers, with primary focus on young people under 30 years old, but not excluding other potential participants, especially from vulnerable groups. The E2E program promotes dignified work and will support employers offering proper employment conditions.
The “Education to Employment” project is being conducted by the Government of Switzerland and the Government of the Republic of Serbia, and was conceived to create prerequisites for employing the youth in Serbia more quickly.
During the past two years, the crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus has somewhat forced entrepreneurs to get used to the newly formed digital environment which, as it turned out, significantly made their business easier. Within the “Digital Business in the Microsoft Ecosystem” conference, organized by the GoPro Company, in partnership with STP Niš and the Microsoft Company, entrepreneurs, representatives of small and medium-sized businesses, were able to hear what the first steps are if they were ready to completely digitalize their business.
With clear guidelines about the process of digitalizing business itself and practical examples, speakers made an effort to bring the possibilities, but also the threatening risks if the process is not entered on time, closer.
We were pleased to accommodate representatives of the Microsoft and GoPro Companies in this innovative community of ours, share experiences, and use the opportunity to start a narrative about some future joint projects an potential cooperation.
