Jaroslav Bukovina

Jaroslav has joined the SAPIE team to leverage his experience in building innovation ecosystems and boosting productivity within the corporate sector through innovation.

He brings over 8 years of experience from the public sector. For the past three years, he served at the Research and Innovation Authority within the Government Office, where he led reforms of key government initiatives for the innovation ecosystem, such as the R&D tax credit, and was instrumental in establishing an ESOP framework. Jaroslav also co-authored the National Strategy for Research and Innovation and other strategic documents in the innovation domain.

Before his role at Research and Innovation Authority, Jaroslav worked as a tax analyst at the Institute for Financial Policy within the Ministry of Finance. His responsibilities included tax projections, tax gap analysis, and evaluating the impact of tax measures on corporate value creation. During this period, he collaborated significantly with international organizations like the OECD and IMF.

Jaroslav holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Business and Economics at Mendel University in Brno.