Потпишани договори за соработка со јавните универзитети и Агенцијата ИНОВА - Универзитет „Св. Кирил и Методиј“ во Скопје

Agreements for cooperation with public universities and the INOVA Agency have been signed.

On 3 April, cooperation agreements were signed at the Government of the Republic of Macedonia with the public universities and the INOVA Agency.

„Universities are where knowledge is created. INOVA, on the other hand, is the state agency that turns that knowledge into innovation, competitiveness and economic growth. It provides financial and non-financial support for research, innovation, entrepreneurship and green transformation, while building the national innovation infrastructure and stimulating the transfer of technologies between academia and industry.

The benefits of this triple helix are significant for all three parties – the real sector, primarily small and medium-sized innovative enterprises and start-up companies, for the universities that transfer their scientific knowledge and results to the private sector, and for the state, in terms of the reflection of this cooperation on the country's economic growth.

What I would single out as a particular benefit of this collaboration is the transfer of knowledge. The scientific results produced in university laboratories gain real value when they become products, services or technological solutions that flow into companies and contribute to economic development.

Through grants and support programmes, INOVA enables academic ideas to become sustainable projects. This scheme includes financial support aimed at modernisation, the green transition and the growth of innovative companies — which directly opens doors for university teams of professors and students. What adds exceptional value is the involvement of students in these innovative endeavours, which opens up opportunities to acquire additional skills and knowledge that will ease their transition from university to the labour market.

And what I particularly want to highlight is that this initiative encourages academic entrepreneurship. It opens up opportunities for professors and researchers whose research generates innovations to be encouraged in the process of their commercialisation and to create university start-ups and spin-off companies. In this way, universities become centres of innovation, and young people gain new motivation to pursue their careers here, at home." — emphasised the Rector of UCM, Prof. Dr Biljana Angelova.