Zoya
Damianova
Zoya Damianova works as program director in charge of the strategic development of ARC Fund’s Innovation Program, aiming to further develop activities in policy studies and strategic analyses , as well as policy development in the areas of research and innovation . Her current research focus is on foresight studies, regional dimension of the European Research Area, gender issues in science and innovation, innovation financing, innovation infrastructure, regional development, employment, and renewable energy sources.
Ms. Damianova holds MSc degree in heating, ventilation and air-conditioning from the Technical University - Sofia and MBA in corporate finance from the University of National and World Economy.
She has participated in a fellowship program on technology transfer and SME growth in the USA (1998), and in trainings on foresight for practitioners (2004) and scenario building organized by UNIDO (2006).
For six years, from 1997 till Oct. 2002, Ms. Damianova coordinated the activities of IRC-Bulgaria. Since 2001 she has been coordinating a number of projects in the field of research and innovation policy , incl. the pilot "Development of a Regional Innovation Strategy for the South Central Region of Bulgaria" project, the pilot foresight project "Technology and Innovation Foresight for Bulgaria and Romania - ForeTech", “Annual Report on the Bulgarian National Innovation Policy 200 6 ” and “Annual Report on the Bulgarian National Innovation Policy 200 7 ”, both commissioned by the Ministry of Economy and Energy of Bulgaria, the country report “Strategic Evaluation on Innovation and the knowledge-based economy in relation to the Structural and Cohesion Funds, for the programming period 2007 – 2013”, under contract for DG Regional Policy .
Ms. Damianova had been previously employed at the Bulgarian-American Enterprise Fund (1994-1996), the Agency for Economic Analysis and Forecasting (1992-1994), and the Central Institute for Computing Techniques and Technologies (1990-1992). She works fluently in Bulgarian, English and Russian.
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