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» e-Municipality Report, The Report e-Municipality assesses the development of the municipal web-sites and aims to promote the processes of elaboration and implementation of public policies in the spheres of e-Government and local governance.

» Innovation.bg Report, The Innovation.bg report tracks the innovative performance and potential of the Bulgarian economy on an annual basis. The report's preliminary findings highlight the low innovative performance of the economy in terms of new product development and patent grants, which it attributes partly to the low-tech character of the Bulgarian manufacturing sector and partly to the underdeveloped innovation system in the country and the inadequate, highly departmentalized government policy in this respect. Business investment in R&D remains the lowest in Central and Eastern Europe at 0.11% of GDP, while government R&D spending is locked into an outdated organizational structure of Academy of Sciences' institutes, which lack results-oriented incentives to perform better.

» Information Society Newsletter No.3/2005, ARC Fund's Information Society Promotion Office has released the first issue of its Information Society Newsletter for 2005 (August – October 2005). The Information Society newsletter aims at raising public awareness on the role of information society in Bulgaria and Europe. Some of the key topics covered in this issue include: safer internet initiatives, update on IST projects, funding opportunities, a calendar of IST events in Bulgaria and abroad.

» e-Bulgaria 2005 Report, ARC Fund’s annual report presents the latest trends in the country’s information society developments in 2005. The report analyzes the progress in ICT infrastructure deployment, and the penetration and use of internet and ICT-related services in Bulgarian households, enterprises, schools, universities and government institutions.

» Information Society Newsletter No.2/2005, ARC Fund's Information Society Promotion Office has released the first issue of its Information Society Newsletter for 2005 (May – July 2005). The Information Society newsletter aims at raising public awareness on the role of information society in Bulgaria and Europe.

» Foresight of the Development of Biotechnology in Bulgaria, The brochure, published by ARC Fund in May 2005, represents the report and analysis that resulted from the pilot foresight initiative in Bulgaria coordinated by ARC Fund over the period May 2004 – February 2005 within the framework of the ForeTech project.

» Foresight of the Development of e-Government in Bulgaria , The brochure, published by ARC Fund in May 2005, represents the report and analysis that resulted from the pilot foresight initiative in Bulgaria coordinated by ARC Fund over the period May 2004 – February 2005 within the framework of the ForeTech project.

» Information Society Newsletter No.1/2005, ARC Fund's Information Society Promotion Office has released the first issue of its Information Society Newsletter for 2005 (January – April 2005). The purpose of this quarterly publication is to raise awareness and understanding of the importance of Information Society policies and initiatives among policy- and decision-makers in local and central governments, academia and ICT industry in Bulgaria.

» Benchmarking of e-Municipality Websites in Bulgaria (in Bulgarian), This report is the outcome of a municipal websites assessment which ARC Fund completed in November 2004 with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bulgaria. The report looks at the availability and quality of some 125 municipal websites in an attempt to determine the level of local e-government development in the country and identify positive examples which can be transferred as best practice.

» Innovation: Policy and Practice, Innovation is key to enhancing the competitiveness of the Bulgarian economy, to accelerating its economic growth and improving the living standards of its population. The monograph, titled Innovation: policy and practice, was developed by a group of renowned academics and innovation experts – members of ARC Fund’s Expert Council on Innovation, and representatives of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, universities, high-tech companies and research centres.


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