Operation “Public call Protecting Innovation Potential” (hereinafter: operation) will provide companies with significantly simplified access to lower value incentives that will help companies maintain their innovation potential, a priority in digitalisation and the green/circular economy. The primary purpose of the measure is to encourage companies, despite the difficult economic situation, to remain fully employed by research staff, thus not losing start-up to development projects. The objective of the measure is that research staff companies do not benefit from short-time work or waiting for work, do not dismiss staff and do not abandon already launched research development projects. The measure will encourage companies whose R & D and innovation activities fall within at least one of the priority areas of application of the current Slovenian Smart Specialisation Strategy — S4.