OVERVIEW OF THE ICT SEGMENT IN SLOVENIA

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OVERVIEW OF THE ICT SEGMENT IN SLOVENIA

• Current status
• Analysis
• Challenges and opportunities

Peter Testen, President of Association for
informatics and telecommunication of Slovenia
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Statistical view of ICT
ICT services ICT production Total
Number of companies 2153 672 2825
Number of employees 12858 11812 24670
Revenue (mill. EUR) 1.599 901 2.500
Average revenue per company 742.685 1.340.774 884.955
Added value (mill. EUR) 424 289 713
Added value per employee 32.976 24.466 28.901
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ANALYSIS - WEAKNESSES

• ICT supplier offer is very fragmented
• The small size of the Slovenian market is not
  interesting for
• big foreign service providers
• Lack of investment funds to create new products
  and
• services
• Lack of qualified resources, only 3,8 of
  graduates from
• natural sciences, mathematics and computing in
  2006
• Gap between the state development strategies
  and their
• implementation

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PATENTS
COUNTRY NUMBER OF PATENTS/ 1.MILL. INHABITANS ICT PATENTS OF ICT PATENTS IN ALL PATENTS ICT PATENTS PER RESEARCHER
SLOVENIA 38 4 10,5 1,97
AUSTRIA 161 24,5 15,2 6,93
FINLAND 239,1 120 50,2 5,44
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ANALYSIS - STRENGTHS

• A balanced mix of companies providing equipment,
  software, services and consulting
• Level of readiness for e-business is at EU
  average
• E-government services for citizens are among
  leading in EU

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ACCORDING TO i2010 AGENDA SHOULD EU MEMBERS

• Define information society priority tasks for
  growth and employment which emphasize the meaning
  of ICT and ICT infrastructure
• Assure new legal frame for digital approaching
  on opened and competitive markets
• Increase funds in national budgets intended for
  ICT researches
• Develop modern and inter-operative public
  services
• Use their big purchasing power as a driving force
  for innovation in ICT industry
• Accept ambitious goals for development of
  information society at the national level
• Industry should increase investments into
  research and ICT technology

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CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

• Government should position ICT as the driving
  force for the continuous development of the
  information society
• Acting as a partner and reference at marketing
  and implementation of solutions abroad
• Simplifying the processes for companies to obtain
  the RD funding in EU and Slovenia
• Improving the high education and motivating
  students for mathematics and computing studies
• Increasing funding for education of working
  resources
• Simplifying process to employ qualified resources
  from developing countries