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Aspen Institute CE: Visegrad Startup Report 2016/2017: "What makes the Visegrad region stand out is the number of STEM graduates."
Visegrad Startup Report provides complex analysis of the Visegrad startup ecosystem based on a series of national startup studies (Polish, Slovak, Czech and Hungarian). The authors of Visegrad Startup Report have seized the opportunity created by the lack of a documents which could serve as a reference tool to companies and politicians attentively looking at the rapidly expanding Visegrad (V4) startup ecosystem.
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2017 General Assembly held at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics
- Michal Nebeský of Citibank, re-elected to serve as AmCham president in 2017-18. He is joined on the Executive Committee by Ladislav Haškovec of Honeywell, Jan Brázda of Constellation, Michal Chour of Radisson Blu Alcron, Sanjiv Suri of Zátiší Group and Václav Novotný of Cordia Consulting. Our year-end report can be downloaded HERE.
- Projects for Prague, key economic infrastructure developments, unveiled by Bert Hesselink of CBRE, Chair of the AmCham Real Estate Council.
- Panel discussion on Future of Research feat. Vladimír Mařík of CertiCon, Andrea Kirschner of Eaton and Chad Brown, US Researcher held.
Invitation: Public Affairs seminar: Months of uncertainty: How to get your business ready for the election period
Grayling, together with the Chamber of Commerce of the Czech Republic, would like to invite you to a breakfast seminar on business challenges during the election period. As the general elections are approaching, political environment is getting less predictable. The purpose of this event is to discuss pitfalls and opportunities that will arise in the upcoming 6 months.
C.Gershman/National Endowment for Democracy: Reagan’s Westminster Address and Democracy 35 Years Later
At the end of May a group of democratic intellectuals and activists from more than two dozen countries gathered in Prague under the auspices of Forum 2000, an organization founded by Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who turned president in Czechoslovakia, to consider how to reverse the alarming decline of liberal democracy in the world today.
Strategic Directions for Czech Economic Policy
- Transition to High-Tech Manufacturing and Exports
- The City Campus as Idea Factory
- Government Programs and Processes That Drive Innovation
- Government as a Competitive Advantage, including Digitization
Advocacy Priorities for 2023
Technology, People, Infrastructure
Actions Recommended in Areas:
1. Establishing Policy Objectives for Research.
2. Research Investment and Cooperation. Big Bets (Key Technology Projects).
3. Establishing Databases for Tracking Public Policy Outcomes.
4. Public Procurement as an Innovation Tool.
5. Immigration of STEM Talents.
6. Digitization of Immigration.
7. Adult Reskilling and Upskilling.
8. Digitization of Land Use.
9. Infrastructure Development, including Technology Parks.
Read the documents in English and Czech.
Policy pipeline
In Policy Pipeline policy developments in the Czech Republic and abroad are monitored to bring better understanding of current topics and trends.
