REGIONAL ASPECT OF THE SLOVAK SCIENCE PARKS AND RESEARCH CENTERS

Abstract

Slovak national innovation system shows lower performance compared with the developed countries. One of the reasons is the unsatisfactory infrastructure of the public R&D organizations such as universities and the Slovak Academy of Sciences. This crucial issue was partially solved in programming period 2007-2013 when R&D infrastructures upgrading were systematically supported by ESIF. Totally 14 university science parks as well as research centers were built. They represent so-called R&D strategic infrastructure in Slovakia. All projects were implemented by national high-quality public R&D organizations.