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Ladislav Šimko

Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic, Government Representative of the Slovak Republic for the National and Regional Partnership Plan
He has extensive experience in public administration and strategic management, having served as Director of Interhotels Tatry and Košice, as well as working in the consulting sector focused on macroeconomic and project analysis. He later held senior positions at the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak News Agency (TASR), where he led strategic and economic agendas. He has long been active at the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic and within the structures of the Deputy Prime Minister for Investments and Informatization, focusing on the coordination of knowledge economy priorities and European strategies. He served as the Executive National Coordinator for the EU Strategy for the Danube Region and led the preparation of the RIS3 smart specialization strategy. He currently serves as the Government Plenipotentiary for the National and Regional Partnership Plan.
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  • ITAPA OPEN TALK: "Modernizing the Country: What to Fund and What to Stop Funding?"
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  • Systemic support for research and innovation in the Slovak Republic to ensure competitiveness
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    Presentation will describe the operations of system support for research and innovation in Slovakia designed to ensure competitiveness; it will also present entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP) questionnaire as part of the framework Implementation strategy plan for smart specialization – RI3 for the platform Digital Slovakia and Creative Industry in entrepreneurial and research environment of IT sector and creative industry sector.
  • Systemic support for research and innovation in the Slovak Republic to ensure competitiveness
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    Presentation will describe the operations of system support for research and innovation in Slovakia designed to ensure competitiveness; it will also present entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP) questionnaire as part of the framework Implementation strategy plan for smart specialization – RI3 for the platform Digital Slovakia and Creative Industry in entrepreneurial and research environment of IT sector and creative industry sector.
  • The new programming period in terms of the Government
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  • Strategy of memory and fund institutions development and reconstruction of their national infrastructure
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    Memory and fund institutions are via their administered content the basis for development of the knowledge society. The state of funds in the Slovak Republic as well as securing their accessibility via ICT lacks far behind not only in the EU 15 average. The improvement of systems of acquisition and processing of the content of fund institution, its digitalization and making accessible is a key factor of provision of e-content for the development of inclusive information society.

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