Lisbon Agenda Implementation: the Example of Slovenia The Reform Programme for Achieving the Lisbon Strategy Goals The Reform Programme for Achieving the Lisbon Strategy Goals identifies, in line with Slovenia's Development Strategy, five development priorities: a competitive economy and faster growth; a knowledge-based society; an efficient state; a modern social state and higher employment; and sustainable development. These priorities are subdivided into a number of more concrete objectives. The first development priority: a competitive economy and faster economic growth The proposed measures are intended to stimulate the economy's compe­titiveness and raise economic growth rates. By implementing the planned measures Slovenia aims to promote faster development of entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises, create a more business-friendly environment, and increase the inflows of development-supporting domestic and foreign investment. Public utilities and network industries should be made more efficient through measures that will liberalise these services and enhance their competitiveness. These include better utilisation of the communication infrastructure of all utilities, the market-oriented restructur-ing of the energy sector and competitive end-user energy supply, and competitive transport and logistical services. At the same time, these reforms must take place in a stable macroeconomic environment that will enable the adoption of the euro in 2007. The second development priority: effective generation, two-way flow and application of the knowledge needed for economic development and quality jobs Through the proposed measures of the second priority the better applica-tion in Slovenia of domestic and foreign knowledge for the country's eco-nomic development should be achieved. In this way, the formation of a more innovative and technologically advanced economy and the opening of better quality jobs to a better educated and trained workforce, are encouraged. The fundamental change in this sphere is the strengthening of cooperation between the research/academic sphere and the business sector. Joint work by experts and entrepreneurs in the development of new technological, organi­sational, design, marketing and other business solutions is the best way to greater innovation and the more rapid technological progress of the eco-nomy. Improvements in the functioning of universities and implementation of the “Bologna declaration” in our education are crucial. 105