Technology Park Ljubljana – Building Innovative Region Technology Park Ljubljana – Developing Innovative Region Iztok Lesjak, M.Sc. General Manager April 2009

Technology Park Ljubljana – Building Innovative Region Iztok Lesjak, M.Sc. – General Manager Educational background: - B.A. at Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering - M.Sc. at Faculty of Economics Research and managerial background: - researcher and project manager at National Research “Jozef Stefan Institute” (1 patent and 5 technical innovations holder) - Head of Technology Park Ljubljana (from 1995): strategy and development plan for the organisation, creator of infrastructure project “Technology zone Ljubljana Brdo” (44 mio €, modern infrastructure put into use in 2008) evaluated over 300 business plans, - expert and project team member of several national and EU projects on Innovative/TT development strategies, - author of several scientific publications and international conference papers

Technology Park Ljubljana – Building Innovative Region Technology Park Ljubljana - 16 years of excellence 1993: Started as a project at “Jozef Stefan” Institute (4 companies) 1995: Registration of Technology Park Ljubljana Ltd. as a public (research institutes and Municipality of Ljubljana) and as a private (large industries) sector joint project 2001: Requirement of first infrastructure with m² business surface 2004: Technology Park Ljubljana initiates the establishment of National Association of Incubators and Technology Parks 2008: Setting up the technology zone with modern infrastructure Technology Park Ljubljana Brdo (about m² business surface) 2009: Technology Park Ljubljana is the leading business support environment in Slovenia with over 200 member companies

Technology Park Ljubljana – Building Innovative Region Specialised business development services: Acceleration and Growth Specialised training programs for enhancing business skills Program Gateway to Finance : access to public/private funding Program Soft Landing : attracting foreign investors and businesses to Technology Park Ljubljana Anchor organizations: Access to business partners and RTD institutions worldwide: B2B events, matchmaking events, networking opportunities, trade missions, … EU projects: FP 7, Leonardo da Vinci, … Inter & intra institutional collaboration Best practice transfer to partner organisations in SEE Region Member of International Association of Science Parks and other associations

Technology Park Ljubljana – Building Innovative Region Nationally renowned miniature innovation pole Strategic partnerships with key regional and national actors : RDA, university incubators, technology parks, Slovenian Technology Agency, Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Entrepreneurship and Foreign Investments, … (TP Lj is a member of several steering committee groups) Engaging stakeholders : public bodies (municipality, research institutes) and private companies Focus : ICT, new materials, biotechnology, automatization in industry, renewable energy. Open concept provides a sustained flow of new knowledge based companies with high level of retention and potential for growth (incubated companies). Technology Park Ljubljana connects incubated companies and associated members and provides business development services which is a solid base for developing new innovative cluster initiatives and spin-offs.

Technology Park Ljubljana – Building Innovative Region Future Challenges Infrastructure: further development of technology zone – 2 nd phase of construction Development and upgrading excellent business support services and new business support schemes. Nurturing and establishing relationships with stakeholders and partners in order to meet the needs for internationalization and companies’ penetration into foreign markets. Transferring the best practices of Technology Park Ljubljana to East and South-East European regions Marinating and establishing the status of the most attractive business support environment in Slovenia and SEE bordering regions.

Technology Park Ljubljana – Building Innovative Region Remarkable achivements in 2008 / 2009 Winner of competition for Start-up Slovenia Acies Bio. Winner of Slovenian Advertisement Festival for the most innovative approaches of communication - Sonce.net. Gama System with its e-doc software penetrated markets on three continents – Europe, Africa and Asia. Three companies Elaphe, Gama System and XLAB made a TOP 10 Slovenian list of the most innovative companies. Four finalists in the competition (out of 10) in the competition The Best Business Idea 2008/09 – Red Orbit, Optilab, Intera and Energen. Intera won Red Herring 100 Europe 2009 award.

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