R & D
Slovakia is highly competitive country with technical base and long term tradition in industrial research and development. Slovakia has effectively working R&D personnel which participate on excellence domestic and foreign projects. Slovakia has available engineering and science base with good built R&D network. This R&D network consists of domestic industrial research and development organizations, scientific and research working places and laboratories on technical and natural sciences universities, institutions of Slovak Academy of Sciences and foreign R&D centres. Slovak R&D network is connected with other related institutions such as: industrial associations, clusters, agencies for support of R&D and Innovation, business innovation centres, incubators, science-technology parks and ICT and software development firms too.
Skills and experiences of Slovak researchers, scientists and engineers are highly useful for a lot of foreign companies doing business in R&D in Slovakia such as: Johnson Controls, ON Semiconductor, Leoni, BSH, ThermoSolar, Sauer Danfoss, Krauss Maffei, Ness, Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, Mühlbauer, Continental Automotive Systems, Elastogran, and others.
Agency SARIO supports activities for building, development and popularization of Slovak R&D environment, attracts R&D foreign direct investments and creates close relationships with domestic firms and established foreign companies in terms of opportunities for building own firm R&D capacities. Agency SARIO is continually data mapping about Slovak R&D environment, SARIO is active in publishing information materials with focus on R&D and other specific information, SARIO communicates and cooperates with Slovak universities and R&D institutions. These activities help to increase of information quality for foreign investors.
More information about opportunities in R&D foreign direct investments you can obtain on rd@sario.sk
