Applied Research and Communications Fund, ARC Consulting, Enterprise Europe Network – Bulgaria, with the support of the Directorate General GROW and Executive Agency for SMEs, Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Joint Innovation Centre of the BAS in media partnership with Economy magazine and Economic.bg, Computer world Bulgaria, Kaldata.bg, Nauka.bg magazine, Uspelite.bg,Bulgarian National Radio – Radio Sofia and portal of Bulgarian industry IndustryInfo.bg organized the Sixteenth National Innovation Forum “Economic Resilience through Innovations”. The Forum was held online on...

The Applied Research and Communications Fund is implementing the project “Hidden Innovations: an analysis of research and innovation activity that remains uncovered by official statistics”. To this end, it developed a short online questionnaire (closed) related to the study of the reasons for not reporting data on the research and innovation activity of Bulgarian innovative companies. The questions aim to explore the attitudes of innovative enterprises and on this basis to propose measures to address this problem. The “brightening” of innovative enterprises will...

An independent non-profit volunteer initiative initiated by Source Institute, Sofia Tech Park & BESCO – the Bulgarian Startup Association, created a platform to collect DIY plans and designs for mechanical ventilators – . “A shortage of mechanical ventilators is expected because of patients with COVID-19. In order to save lives of people who will not have access to such equipment, our goal is to make it locally possible to create these using standard parts that can be found easily. We aim to make an open library of do-it-yourself plans and designs that others can improve...

On 30 January 2020, the President of Bulgaria Mr. Rumen Radev awarded the Excellence in Innovation label for a second time. It was presented to all finalists at the Innovative Enterprise of the Year 2019 contest. The ceremony, organised by the Applied Research and Communications Fund and Enterprise Europe Network under the aegis of the President, was attended by ambassadors and diplomats from European and global innovation leader countries such as Germany, Austria, South Korea, Japan, the UK, Israel, Poland, and by Bulgarian entrepreneurs, public officials, NGOs and academia representatives...