Barbara Predan is the director of the Institute of Design in Slovenia. She discusses her country's national design ecosystem and involvement in design policy. Slovenia lacks design-driven companies and policymakers, as well as companies with clear design strategies, limiting designers' impact. She outlines several Slovenian design policies from 2005 to the present focusing on R&D tax credits, reports on the design sector, and action plans to support industrial design. The main subjects involved in design policy are government funders and policymakers, as well as private sector beneficiaries. Opportunities for design policy include EU initiatives while limits include a lack of design-focused policymakers and dependence on government.