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Nineteenth National Innovation Forum
2024-02-27
On December 19, 2023, the Nineteenth National Innovation Forum was held, at which Mrs. Iliana Ivanova, Commissioner for Innovation, Scientific Research, Culture, Education and Youth in the European Commission and Acad. Nikolay Denkov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria greeted the representatives of the Bulgarian business and academia and presented the "Innovative Enterprise of the Year" awards to the companies awarded in the competition.
The forum was opened by Mr. Ognyan Shentov, chairman of the "Applied Research and Communications" Foundation and Mr. Norbert Beckman-Dirkes, head of the Representation of the "Konrad Adenauer" Foundation in Bulgaria.
Mr. Ruslan Stefanov, coordinator of the Innovations.bg group, presented the report for 2023. Participants in the discussion about the state and opportunities for development of the national innovation system were Prof. Todor Tagarev, Minister of Defense, Mr. Vasil Terziev, Mayor of Sofia Municipality, Assoc. Dr. Todor Yalamov, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Economics at SU St. Kliment Ohridski" and Mrs. Miglena Nikolova, executive director at "Niki Rotor Aviation" OOD, awarded in the field of "Innovation in Creative Industries" for 2022.
You can find more about the forum and the awarded companies here: Innovation.bg - ARC FUND
BalBok Engineering AD was awarded at the Tenth National Innovation Forum in 2014 as the Innovative Enterprise of the Year in the field of "Green Innovation" for the National System for collection of hazardous waste from households - created and successfully implemented in the municipalities - and is the first recipient of the award in this category.