“Development and improvement of entrepreneurial spirit through innovation and implementation of the communication technologies is the subject concerned by ASCAME Innovation and ICT Commission.”

“Our vision is that the Mediterranean bases its development on knowledge as the fundamental resource of development and competitiveness.”

Our vision is that the Mediterranean bases its development on knowledge as the fundamental resource of development and competitiveness and that the region becomes distinguished for that in Europe and the world. Today, knowledge and innovations are closely related to the development of entrepreneurial initiatives under which are the business people that contribute to a new economic and social development.

The Croatian Chamber of Economy has established the database of innovators and innovations from the area of the Primorje and Gorski Kotar County, whose final purpose is innovations’ commercialization. The mentioned database will be soon available for use. It will contain information on innovation, contact data of an innovator, as well as the level of protection patent. We expect in the near future to have a similar Mediterranean database within the ASCAME network. It is very important that the Croatian Chamber of Economy together with the Mediterranean Chambers endeavours to strengthen capacities of the entrepreneurial structures, tie up researches and innovators that transform ideas to new products or upgrade processes and, in this way, create an environment for job creation.

The Croatian Chamber of Economy chairs the ASCAME Commission of Innovation and ICT, founded in 2010 in Opatija, Croatia. I invite the Chambers interested to actively participate in the Commission’s work aiming to develop and improve the entrepreneurial spirit, encourage and promote the growth of innovation and use of new communication technologies.  It is planned to have a more intense integration of informatics experts in the Mediterranean, as well as the implementation of the Communications-collaboration platform, service SaS, Software as a Service in the cloud, for Innovation and ICT Commission and later for other ASCAME Commissions, possibly for the whole ASCAME organisation. The Commission’s work would contain the repository, knowledge based on the Mediterranean that would be used by all the Chambers, member companies and all stakeholders of the regional development: educational, research and development authorities. Our ultimate aim is to ensure the Mediterranean develops a knowledge-based economy and, to obtain this recognition on an international level.

02/24/2016