Premiere in the EU: Smart Specialization Parks - innovative solution for financing Romanian SMEs

Ana Maria Rus

Reporter: There are 17 smart specialization parks in the North-West region. What are they, how do they work in reality and how many of the 17 parks are functional or have an administrator at the moment? Marcel Boloş: Smart specialization parks are a novelty in everything that means parks that manage SMEs together. Smart specialization parks were introduced by Emergency Ordinance 112 of 2022 and are activities specific to SMEs that included an innovation component and/or, as the case may be, a