Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

An example of good practice

In order to attach more importance to research and development, the Government of Republika Srpska formed the Ministry for Scientific and Technological Development and the Higher Education and Information Society. The Ministry deals, among other things, with the coordination of technological and IT projects in the public sector, the promotion of new technologies and technological development, improvement of higher education and the development of the information society in Republika Srpska as well as the development and monitoring of the relevant strategies. One of the key activities of this Ministry is to improve and encourage fundamental applied developmentoriented research, innovativeness and economic growth driven by new technologies.