Centers of excellence usually consist of one or more research teams who work together on research projects sharing technological infrastructure. They are involved in international R&D cooperation and their results show international quality standards. Results of their work have remarkable social and economic influence.
S&T park is an organization supervised by specialized professionals while their main interest is to enhance well-being of all working in the park by means of supporting innovative culture and competitiveness of associated companies and educational institutions. To fulfill this target, S&T parks stimulate and manage flow of knowledge and technological transfer among universities, scientific institutions, companies and financial markets. It helps to build and to support innovative companies by producing incubatory activities and spin-off processes. It offers also services with high economic added value and with quality premises and equipment.
While carrying out research projects, it is important to gather adequate human resources potential as well as technical R&D infrastructure so that research itself can be conducted with utmost effectiveness and quality. Research teams or research institutions are frequently united in research centers having different form and size – from centers of excellence to S&T parks. Their common goal is to carry out quality research and development of internationally comparable standards. Last but not least, research centers create an ideal platform for interaction between the academics and the actual needs of a given society and economy.
We realize that in Slovakia the process of establishing research centers is only at the beginning. Though some research centers have already been developed, we still cannot say that they became well established part of the research infrastructure. To change this situation it is necessary to utilize the potential of Slovak scientists, to make use of our international know-how and to select the right strategy of financing such research centre. We offer complex services especially in this field.
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