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Title: SERBUL PROJECT BULGARIA Sonya ENILOVA Fani SEMERDZHIEVATSIKOVA

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SERBUL PROJECT BULGARIASonya
ENILOVAFani SEMERDZHIEVA-TSIKOVA
SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FP6-2004-INNOV-4

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SOUTHEAST REGION OF BULGARIA

Area - 14,600 sq. km, 13 of the area of the
country
Consists of three administrative districts
Bourgas, Sliven and Yambol
Borders Turkey to the south and the Black sea to
the east
Population - 782 000 inhabitants 10 of the
population in the country
Produces 8.8 of the Bulgarian GDP
Main economic sectors tourism, agriculture,
industry.

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SOUTHEAST REGION OF BULGARIA
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SOUTHEAST REGION OF BULGARIA

Industry 1/4 of the total employment and is
dominated by SMEs
Main industrial sectors - food and drinks
production, textiles, petrochemical products, and
wood processing
Agriculture - 18.8 of the regional GDP and 6 of
the employment - grapes, fruit and corn cattle
breeding
Fishery and aquaculture - along the coastline

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SOUTHEAST REGION OF BULGARIA TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

Tourism - the most rapidly developing sector of
the regional economy

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SOUTHEAST REGION OF BULGARIA TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

250 cultural monuments
1 town in the list of UNESCO world cultural
heritage
Archaeological sites
Traditions, crafts, folk, museums, cuisine
Plenty of holyday villages, resorts, parks,
villas, hotels
3 million tourists annually

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Holiday by the sea
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Project Regional Innovation Strategy
for the Southeast region of Bulgaria

Financed by DG XIII of the Commission of the
European Communities under the 6th Framework
Programme FP-2004-INNOV-4 Research and Innovation
Duration from June 2005 till January 2008
Project goal To increase the competitiveness of
the region in terms of innovative development by
creating innovative culture as a locomotive for
efficient policy making within the Southeast
planning region of Bulgaria

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Project Regional Innovation Strategy for
the Southeast region of Bulgaria

Participants
Agency for Regional Development and Innovation
ARDI, Bulgaria
Business Innovation Centre of Epirus Greece
Balearic Islands Government. Regional Ministry of
Economy, Treasury and Innovation - Spain

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Objectives

To create and develop innovative capacity
To improve the capability of the regional
business to implement innovations and benefit
from them
To create an active regional network that
supports the establishment and development of
working partnerships for innovation
To support the successful integration of the
South-East planning region of Bulgaria in the
European Research Area

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SERBUL PROJECT

The second objective aims at
Stimulating the establishment of
innovation-oriented clusters
Supporting the development of innovative SMEs
Supporting the establishment of spin-off entities

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Supporting the development of innovative SMEs

Objectives
To establish on-going co-operation and strong
networking in the field of innovation promotion
on regional, national and European level
To promote business activities between the South
East region and EU partner regions.

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Support of clusters establishment

Clusters collaboration between companies in
one and the same area
Our aim to help to develop clusters in the
following sectors
Tourism
Textile
Transport

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Support of clusters establishment

Activities
Study the sectors in detail
Selection of pilot clusters
1st stage of development of clusters

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Why do we support clusters?

Direct advantages
Better business transactions and investment
Reduced expenses
Increased income and more jobs created
Indirect advantages
Receive knowledge
Compare with competitors
Exchange of information that leads to innovations
and improvement

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Why do we support clusters?

Strengths
Local chain of providers
Specialised workforce
Specialised services
Abilities of choice

Benefits
Improved links
High productivity
Improved and quicker access
Low prices, higher quality

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Why do we support clusters?

Benefits
Collective thinking, planning, influence
Inter-company collaboration, networks
Technology transfer and innovations
Informal exchange of information and know how

Strengths
Cooperation
Confidence
Knowledge

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Next steps

Define the pilot sectors for development of
clusters
Determine the contents of the cluster (size,
concentration of companies, etc.)
Determine the available complimentary services
(distribution and export, financial institutions,
specialized consultants, training and education,
etc.
Discover the linkages (where do companies solve
their problems, whom they compare with, who do
they trust and work in partnership, where their
membership is, etc.

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The Approach