The Science and Technology Park, NTP, an investment worth €12 million, will be generating the necessary energy and being a gathering place for scientists and researchers, but also technology-oriented companies with the potential for speedy growth and performance, offering new solutions for new times, said Montenegro’s Prime Minister, Duško Marković.
At the ceremony on the occasion of the start of construction works, PM Marković welcomed the decision of the University of Montenegro to implement this valuable investment, in partnership with the Ministry of Science.
The Prime Minister emphasized the government’s commitment to invest more generously and decisively in development and prosperity, even in the most challenging times.
Noting that global changes and scientific and technological development do not allow inertia, Mr Marković said that in Montenegro, scientific and intellectual potential lies especially in young people, and that we must provide educated and talented people with everything in order to be able to achieve their professional potential.
Science minister, Ms Sanja Damjanović, said that this is not just another facility, but the center and driving force for our economy, from which we expect a quick return on this investment.
Thanking the Prime Minister and the government for their support, Minister Damjanović also thanked the company Telekom for providing significant support in equipping the NTP and the future development of its services, worth €1.5 million, in both funds and equipment.
Rector of the University of Montenegro, Mr Danilo Nikolić, said that they expected from the Park to encourage scientific research, stimulate innovative thinking, transfer knowledge and technology, and strengthen entrepreneurial capacity and interdisciplinary cooperation, as well as successful commercialization of the results of their work.
Executive Director of the NTP, Mr Velibor Bošković, said that it [the NTP] was imagined as a central unit of the national innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Executive Director of Crnogorski Telekom, Ms Dina Tsybulskaya, delivered a speech as well and said that the company recognized the intention of the govt to create conditions and space in Montenegro for the development of innovations and new technologies.
“Having in mind that we share the same mission and vision of the future with the NTP, the aim of this partnership is to attract human resources and capital to innovation activities, in order to increase the competitiveness of the domestic economy.”
The building of the future NTP is designed in line with the most contemporary architectural, functional and technological standards.
