Zoran Aralica, PhD

Zoran Aralica, PhD
  • E-MAIL:
    zaralica@eizg.hr
  • JOB TITLE:
    senior research fellow in permanent position, head of Department for Innovation, Business Economics and Business Sectors
  • POSITION:
    senior research fellow in permanent rank

Education

  • 2007 PhD at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
  • 2004 MSc at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, PDS Operational Research
  • 1998 university degree at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, study program in Finance

Employment and work experience

  • 2018 senior research fellow in the Department for Innovation, Business Economics and Business Sectors
  • 2012–2018 senior research associate
  • 2007–2012 research associate
  • 2000–2007 The Institute of Economics, Zagreb – research assistant

Research projects

  • 2022 –  R&I POLICY making, implementation ANd Support in the WEsteRn BalkanS – POLICY ANSWERS (Horizon Europe, HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-06), team member
  • 2019–2021 - Inspiring digital entrepreneurship – IDEA, Erasmus+ KA203, team member
  • 2018–2020 - Establishment of a multipurpose classroom at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb – EIZmetrics – Ministry of Science and Education through European Structural and Investment Funds (Regional Development Fund) KK.01.1.1.06.003, coordinator
  • 2017–2019 - REINDUCE Possibilities for reindustrialization of Croatian economy, Croatian Science Foundation grant, team member
  • 2016–2018 - Strengthening scientific and research capacity of the Institute of Economics, Zagreb as a cornerstone for Croatian socioeconomic growth through the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategy (H2020–TWINN–2015), coordinator
  • 2014–2015 - Regional Patterns of Deindustrialization and Prospects for Reindustrialization in South and Central Eastern European Countries, commissioned by Global Development Network through Regional Research Competition (WIIW), team member
  •  2011–2014 - Innovation policy learning from Norway in Western Balkans, commissioned by Norwegian Research Council, team member
  • 2007–2009 - U KNOW - Understanding the Relationship between Knowledge and Competitiveness in the Enlarging EU, commissioned by the European Commission (FP 6), voluntary participation
  • 2005–2006 - Croatian Innovation Policy and Its Effects, commissioned by Global Development Network through Regional Research Competition (CERGE-EI), team member

Fields of interest

  • innovation economics
  • technological development
  • international economics
  • industrial policies 
  • ​energy economics
  • international business

Selected training

  • 2018 - Quantitative Methods for Public Policy Evaluation, BGSE – Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2017 - one-month visit to Bocconi University, within the SmartEIZ project, Milan, Italy
  • 2013 - RTDI evaluation training, Institut Mihajlo Pupin, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 2009 - Foresight training course, JRC Seville, Spain
  • 2007 - The Role of the Private R&D Sector in New EU Member States, JRC Seville, Spain
  • 2005 - 37th Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
  • 2005 - Public Action for a Knowledge-Based Economy in the Enlarged EU, workshop, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2005 - International Project Management for Research Managers from Southeast European Countries, UNESCO-ASO-EARMA Training Seminar, Bled, Slovenia
  • 2004 - Hertfordshire University workshop on institutional evolution, Great Offley, UK
  • 2003 - Summer School: The Value of Culture, The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University – AMSU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Selected bibliography


List of publications (Croatian Scientific Bibliography – CROSBI)
 
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