A way towards the Croatian industrial identity based on own resources and potentials

摘要

Croatia has many natural resources and a combination of different potentials that are not being sufficiently innovatively used in structuring, encouraging, and implementing of new and sustainable production and economy. These are notably: a very advantageous geo-strategic location and traffic infrastructure; the high-quality spring water, rivers and the sea; various, clean, and high-quality soils; vast wooded areas and high-quality timber; a favourable climate, unpolluted air and winds; a distinctive culture, traditional values and skills; well educated, friendly, creative and adaptable people. This paper draws attention to the possibilities of building an independent economic (industrial) and civilization based identity founded on the synergy of input parameters for sustainable technologies and products. The key areas for the possible manufacturing of products, equipment and systems have been defined: for production of energy from renewable resources; in tourism, use of leisure time, and entertainment; for the new agriculture and industrial bio-technology; in development of ecologically and energy self-sustainable regions, settlements, and homesteads; in processing, refining and designing of wood products, inorganic mineral raw materials and materials of higher added value; information and communication technologies and industrial design in the function of development of the aforementioned sectors of production.