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Startus: The Complete Brno Startup City Guide | Deloitte Technology Fast 50 (updated)
Brno is a place to start a hi-tech business. Because of its success in attracting new businesses, a limited workforce is available but representatives are aware of disadvantages and are actively working to improve them. Advantages and challenges to be considered by potential startup founders.
Dotyk.cz: Traditional Czech industry retreating, making space for assembly plants
Five traditional brands of the Czech industry that are currently facing an existential crisis. Maybe we are watching live the end of the transformation of the Czech economy after 1989, Dotyk.cz writes.
TOL.org: Prague’s Festival of Lights
Hundreds of thousands of attendees wandered through the Prague city center to admire 22 spectacular sites put on by artists from all over the world.
Radio Praha: World’s deepest underwater cave discovered in Czech Republic
A team of explorers recently found the world’s deepest underwater cave located in the eastern part of the Czech Republic.
Club of Rome: Reinventing prosperity - report
The Club of Rome think-tank presents 13 proposals to reduce unemployment, inequality and climate change.
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
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