- Published: 15.03.2018.
PM Plenković meets Vice-President of the Wallenberg Foundation
Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic met in Zagreb on Thursday with Marcus Wallenberg, Vice-President of the Wallenberg Foundation, and discussed investment in the digital transformation of the Croatian economy, a government press release said.
They said that the economic cooperation between Croatia and Sweden was intensifying, and that Croatia was a very popular destination for Swedish tourists.
Also discussed were Swedish experiences in connecting the corporate sector, the academic community and government institutions in promoting innovation, new technologies and the competitiveness of business entities, the press release said.
Wallenberg was accompanied by Niklas Johansson, State Secretary at the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, Lars Schmidt, Ambassador to Croatia, and executives of the SAAB and Ericsson Nikola Tesla companies.
The Wallenberg Foundation is the largest private funder of research in Sweden and one of the largest in Europe.
Text: Hina