A mere 11 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises in Bulgaria invest in new technologies, whereas in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands this percentage is 40, said Mark Nicklas head of the “Innovation Policy and Investment for Growth” unit of the EC at a business forum in Plovdiv, dedicated to the future of the economy and digital transformations.
Mark Nicklas pointed out that in the updated economic strategy the EC is staking on productions of high value added, digitalization, but also on the adaptation of the people. Gunnar Muent, Director of the Innovation and Competitiveness Department within the Projects Directorate at the European Investment Bank advised businesses in Bulgaria to have more courage and invest in new technologies, because at this time, Bulgaria is last in the list of European countries by this indicator.
Bulgaria and the United States are to expand the scope of their Intergovernmental Agreement for cooperation on the project for the construction of a new unit at the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant and the civil nuclear programme. This possibility was..
Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Kondov is leading the Bulgarian delegation at the 45th session of the Ministerial Conference of La Francophonie, which will be held on October 3 in Paris, the Foreign Ministry announced. The foreign ministers..
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on Bulgarian citizens in Iran to leave the country immediately due to the escalation of tensions in the Middle East, the Situation Center announced on the Foreign Ministry’s website. Bulgarian citizens in..
In December this year the Ministry of Finance will have covered the last of the criteria for accession to the Eurozone – inflation, said caretaker..
Charges of trading in influence are to be brought against Dzheyhan Ibryamov after decisions were made to strip him of his immunity from prosecution..
If the general elections were to be held at the beginning of October, 6 parties and coalitions would enter the Bulgarian parliament, a Market Links..
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