Western Balkans Competitiveness Outlook 2024

Skills cluster - Key progress and remaining challenges since CO2021 • . Progress Progress in development of Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) Establishment of National Council for Higher Education and Scientific Research Activities (in 2021) Adoption of National Roadmap for Research Infrastructure (in 2022) National Open Science Cloud Initiative (in 2021) STI Policy • • Challenges Public research system remains underfunded, GERD at around 0.4% of GDP Weak business-academia links; no collaborative grant schemes in place Limited progress on establishment of Science and Technology Parks (STPs) 20

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