Development Center Novo mesto ltd. (South-East Slovenia region)

Development of entrepreneurship in South Eeast region was the main aim for the establishment of Development centre Novo mesto ltd. Organization’s activities are directed towards development and support of micro, small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurs. Organization’s vision in the field of SME’s support is to become regional centre, where entrepreneur would get all needed information and services for the start of his independent economic operations and where already established companies would receive services they need to expand their business more effectively (“one stop shop”).

The goals of Development centre novo mesto ltd. are establishment of support environment for entrepreneurs, place for connecting and establishing development partnerships and networking with external experts for creating a network of co-operators that will carry out expectations and goals set in Regional development programme for South East Slovenia.

Development centre Novo mesto ltd is also the administrator of Incubator which started to operate in January 2010. Incubator in Novo mesto is a great promoter of (eko)innovations. In Incubator can be included only firms that are developing products with great added value. Incubator also prefers companies that operate in economic areas preferred by Regional development programme of South-Eastern Slovenia 2007-2013 and are protecting environment.

What concerns the organizational perspective about environmental protection, Development centre Novo mesto ltd. follows the directives of Regional development programme of South-Eastern Slovenia 2007-2013.
Development Centre Novo mesto ltd. sees eco-innoavtions as an important upcoming segment in development of successful companies. As regional development agency they are the crossroad of different information, project ideas, programmes and initiatives and the place where development partnerships are born. So the main activity is to give that information to firms they needed. They provide information through different channels, most often through internet pages of Development centre Novo mesto ltd, e-mailings, brochures and others multipliers. They are often organizing meetings on specific themes or actual issues.

Some of the questions that Development centre Novo mesto ltd. deals supporting (eco)innovations are:

• What kind of help offer to companies to support them on their way of (eco)innovation?
• Is our community already prepared to support ecoinnovations in more extended way?
• How to deal with cost-benefit problem?
• How to deal with lack of financial support on local and national level?
• How to improve educational structure in order to be companies more ekoinnovative oriented?

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