Innovation

According to the Global Competitiveness Index released by World Economic Forum (WEF), Turkey has fallen 10 places compared to two years ago.

While our country was in the 45th slot in 2014-2015, Turkey was in 51st place last year out of 140 countries, while in the 2016-2017 index Turkey is in 55th slot. 

In personal crises, people often lose the ability to think, hampering their chances of overcoming the challenges before them. Something similar happens to economies. When crisis hits, countries suffer a brain drain of many of their most qualified workers.

Groundbreaking DJ performances and polyrhythmic music mixing ancient Syrian traditions with cutting-edge electronic instruments will feature at Resonate 2016, which starts on April 12 at various locations in Belgrade.

Turkey is the 36th most innovative country in the world, according to the recently released Bloomberg Innovation Index.

With a score of 60.92, Turkey ranked 36 out of 84 countries in the 2016 index, retaining its position from 2015 after it had moved up a spot in 2014.  

Davos 2016 started on Jan. 20. There are eight main themes to be discussed this year. All of them are either directly or in-directly related to technology, innovation and R&D. Topics include the rise of the robots, medicine, climate change, inequality, terrorism, the migration crisis, market turmoil, Europe and cyber-crime. 

According to President Rosen Plevneliev, the achievements of Bulgaria in the field of innovations are forthcoming and the country has great potential to develop in this sphere.

Plevneliev said this during his participation at the eleventh edition of the national innovation forum entitled "Development of an innovation environment for a sustainable economic growth in Bulgaria".

The European Commission will boost competitiveness by investing almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation funding scheme.

Yes, there is war in the country. Yes, there is still no government in the country. Yes, we cannot predict what will happen tomorrow in this country; for this reason, we cannot even make the most simple and basic decisions.

The Digital News Initiative (DNI) is a partnership between Google and news publishers in Europe aimed to support high-quality journalism through technology and innovation. The goal is to encourage a more sustainable news ecosystem – and to promote innovation in digital journalism — through ongoing collaboration and dialogue between the tech and news sectors.

Bulgaria ranks 57th in the world by innovations, according to Deputy Economy Minister Daniela Vezieva.

Speaking Wednesday at the opening of a Bulgarian-Israeli forum on innovations, she pointed out that the IT sector was among the leading spheres as regards the introduction of innovations in Bulgaria.