During the international conference “Production and certification of fruit tree seedlings through innovative methods of biotechnology, urgent need for the market” held today in Vlora, Gjinushi stressed that the production of seedlings must meet significant challenges and strong technical scientific requirements.

“The creation of networks and setting up of elite research centres in increasingly specialized fields is the way to become competitive. Scientific certification of autochthonous fruit tree seedlings is one of the conditions in the process of the country’s membership in the European Union. Now, we are at the phase when we are tasked to initially set up a national network of plant biotechnology, with the status of a virtual centre of biotechnology, which will operate at the Academy of Sciences”, said Gjinushi./a.a/r.e/p.s./

INSTAT posted today the report on innovation activities in enterprises, a key element for economic progress, according to which the largest number of companies that improved products and processes happen to be in the service sector.

According to the report, during the period 2018-2020, 36.6% of enterprises developed a new or improved product or process, which differs significantly from the previous products or processes of the unit and is made available to potential users or has been brought into use by the unit.

“Innovation activity is higher in enterprises operating in the services sector by 41%, compared to enterprises in the industry sector by 32.1%,” said INSTAT.

The companies with over 250 employees also further improved their products and processes.

Likewise, 23.6% of all surveyed enterprises developed product innovations (new or improved goods or services), while 31.6% developed new or improved business processes.

At the same time, 42% of enterprises with product innovations introduced goods or services that were new not only to the enterprise, but also to the market, i.e. not previously offered by their competitors.

To carry out their Innovation activity, 25.9% of the enterprises active in Innovation were involved in cooperation with other enterprises, scientific organizations and other partners.

Meanwhile, 13.1% of the surveyed enterprises have purchased machinery, equipment or programming tools based on new technology that was not previously used by these enterprises.

According to the report, 3.6% of enterprises active in innovation received financial support from public authorities./p.s./