Jožef Stefan Institute

Overview

The Jožef Stefan Institute is the leading Slovenian scientific research institute, covering a broad spectrum of basic and applied research. The staff of more than 960 specializes in natural sciences, life sciences and engineering. The subjects concern production and control technologies, communication and computer technologies, knowledge technologies, biotechnologies, new materials, environmental technologies, nanotechnologies, and nuclear engineering. 

The mission of the Jožef Stefan Institute is the accumulation - and dissemination - of knowledge at the frontiers of natural science and technology to the benefit of society at large through the pursuit of education, learning, research, and development of high technology at the highest international levels of excellence.

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In order to increase the flow of knowledge and technology into the domestic and foreign economies and to promote the Jožef Stefan Institute as a Centre of excellence for technological progress for all segments of society an internal Center for Technology Transfer and Innovation (CTT) is established.

The primary task of CTT is to enable and facilitate the transfer of new technologies and innovations, developed at the Institute and its Departments, to the  industry.

Our key activities encompass:

(1)  technology testing facilities, reference experimentation facilities and technology consulting services;

(2) initiating new industrial cooperation: the search for industrial partners, including creating market analyses and support for contracting; 

(3)  establishing of new spin-off / spin-out companies, including the search for investors for licensing and the financing of spin-off / spin-out companies; 

(4) marketing intellectual property, including support for negotiations and licensing contract relations establishment;

(5) supporting active integration of economy and science with internationalization;

(6) supporting the protection of intellectual property including raising awareness about it;

(7) support and assistance in applying to national and EU tenders, including provision of information on suitable Calls for application and full proposal revision, focused on the marketing, IPR, UVP and customer segment related issues;        

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(8) support and assistance to the competence centres (e.g. the competence centre in the domain of customized and low-energy computing).

(9) measures for the popularization of science amongst young population: organization of visits to the Jožef Stefan Institute, mentoring for students and providing special services for young researchers employed at the Institute.

Through our activities, we complement and enrich innovative research, innovation management and knowledge transfer, as well as organization of focused meetings between researchers and industry representatives, thematic workshops, and trainings at the Institute. Our activities are driven by the desire to increase the visibility of the Institute, to raise companies’ awareness of the Institute, and thereby encourage their cooperation with us. At the same time our activities are implemented with the goal to promote entrepreneurial mentality among researchers, as well as with sincere concern for the education and popularization of science among young people.

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The main goal of the Center for Technology Transfer and Innovation at the Jožef Stefan Institute is to increase the flow of knowledge and technology into domestic and foreign economy and to promote the Jožef Stefan Institute as a Centre of excellence for technological progress for all segments of society.

Support at Experimentation

Jožef Stefan Institute consists of different departments, which are to be considered as focal point of development, digitization and industry relations nationally and internationally.

The research departments are listed here: https://www.ijs.si/ijsw/Research%20departments

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Participation in EU Networks and Consortiums

Enterprise Europe Network Slovenia
The Enterprise Europe Network helps businesses innovate and grow on an international scale. It is the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions.
The Network is active in more than 60 countries worldwide. It brings together 3,000 experts from more than 600 member organisations – all renowned for their excellence in business support.
Member organisations include:
•     technology poles
•     innovation support organisations
•     universities and research institutes
•     regional development organisations
•     chambers of commerce and industry

We are the coordinators of the Slovenian EEN consortium. Our partners are Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Craft, University of Primorska, University of Maribor, SPIRIT and Development Agency of Maribor.

Technology transfer consortium of Slovenia unites the main technology transfer offices in Slovenia and serves the researchers and other beneficiaries by assisting them in IP identification and protection, marketing, financing etc.

We are the coordinators of the Slovene consortium. Our partners are all Public Research institutions in Slovenia, active in natural sciences.

 

Link to digitization

Helps researchers and enterprises to innovate, transfer scientific results into practice and to digitalize the industry.

EU-wide Competence Centre Network is set up within the Department of Communication systems of Jožef Stefan Institute, in the domain of customized and low-energy computing (CLEC) for cyber-physical systems and the IoT providing “one-stop-shop” and the cross-border technology brokerage services over EU.

We support a competence centre at the JSI which is a contact point for the local ecosystem in Slovenia.

 

  Digital technologies.