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Commission for Assessment and Determining Proposals for Strategic Projects of the Government of the Republic of Croatia assessed at its meeting, held on 27th of July 2016, that the project “Innovation Centre Nikola Tesla” (ICENT) meets the criteria of Act on Strategic Investment Projects of the Republic of Croatia. Therefore, the Ministry of Economy issued a Decision that the project “Innovation Centre Nikola Tesla” is to be included in the List of Strategic Investment Projects of the Republic of Croatia.

This is the first (and so far, the only) project of this category at the University of Zagreb.

The main role of ICENT is to bridge the gap between research in the academic community and industry needs by creating innovative products-prototypes for the industry, based on scientific research. By doing this ICENT will help Croatian economy to increase revenue from new products, create new jobs with high added value and introduce new technologies in Croatian industry.

ICENT will network academia, research institutes, Croatian industry, local and wider community and public administration. Interaction of these stakeholders will result in space for multidisciplinary research and development, rationalisation of application and commercialisation of R&D results as well as creation and promotion of high added value industry.