Tag: innovation
Macedonia 17.03.23 | 18:21

Innovation Fund awarded a grant to a company involved in the scandalous Bechtel oversight contract

Revelations about the scandalous contract to oversee the major Bechtel highway deal keep coming. The IRD consortium, which was awarded the oversight job for 20 million EUR, includes companies linked with Russian capital, in corruption in Armenia, unethical practices in Macedonia, and one of them is actually...
Macedonia 25.12.22 | 16:46

Macedonia ranked among the least innovative countries in Europe

The European innovation index placed Macedonia near the bottom of its list. The index takes various data points into account to see how innovative a nation is. Macedonia scored 45.6 points, and is sixth from the bottom, above only the war torn Ukraine, which is last, and countries like Albania and Bosnia....
Macedonia 04.12.21 | 11:45

Arsovski: SDSM can’t learn that innovation is not supporting a close person of interest, innovation has a completely different meaning

SDSM has not distinguished in the past four years what is an innovation, and what is a waste of money on their party friends and comrades, reacts the spokesperson of VMRO-DPMNE, Dimce Arsovski. The Innovation Fund, whose main job is to support innovation, science and similar work, does not work in the...
Macedonia 22.12.19 | 18:45

Innovation Fund, best known for awarding politically linked “innovators”, announces new grants before the elections

With just a few months before the early elections, the Innovations Fund (FITR) announced it will award new grants to private companies. FITR is notorious for giving money to politically linked “innovators”, including companies directly linked to members of the Government and Parliament and...
Macedonia 29.09.19 | 19:30

Company once linked to the Zaev family won a large innovation grant presenting a stolen idea as its own, VMRO reveals

VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Dimitar Arsovski claims that the PowerAd company, which won 220.000 EUR in an “innovation grant”, had violated copyright from an American company. The PowerAd company was co-owned by Elenica, one of the companies ran by the Zaev family, until a few months before it won...
Macedonia 07.07.19 | 17:01

Another Innovation Fund scandal – company with alleged ties to Government supporters claimed money to develop devices which are already sold in India

Another major corruption scandal is brewing in the Innovation Fund, a public agency that quickly became notorious for giving large grants for questionable scientific innovations to people close to the ruling SDSM party. Lawyer Aleksandar Tortevski, who was a prominent support of the SDSM party led Colored...

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