"Improvement of competitiveness in the domain of services" - commencement of realization of project "Connecting of subjects in the domain of services into clusters"

Ministry of Trade and Services has started realization of project "Connecting of subjects in the domain of services into clusters" within the scope of program "Improvement of competitiveness in the domain of services".

According to the information on the web site of the Ministry, the portal for clusters will be designed in the first phase in association with the Center for competitiveness and development of clusters of the Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences.

The aim is to improve communication and simplify cooperation between the companies with the same interests in the domain of supply chain, mutual supply of services or the same field of work, that is, similar production program.

The portal should enable quicker and simpler forming of the associations with cluster-like structure and criteria. The portal can also simplify and improve operations of the companies through accelerated flows of information within the network, it can define the role of ICT in the transformation of operations of each company, it can unite offers and present companies on different markets and make them maximally visible.

Its role will be to develop services for small enterprises and to provide for communication with large systems as users of services of SME, other SME associations, government organs, chamber system, foreign related and other associations, suppliers, media, expert institutions, banks and investment funds.