Cities attract people of different talents and skills. Its streets and buildings form competitive cauldrons where these differences are refined into specialization. Specializations combine into industries that produce a sum greater than the individual parts. Those sums are then sold elsewhere to create wealth. Cities, then, are the deep sea vent of economies: the place where elements collide to create new forms of life. That makes them vital for any national strategy of growth. In fact, such a strategy should piece together how the cities within a country’s borders can complement each other as they compete. Prague, today, has a challenge.

HealthCare Institue in cooperation with Ipsos Healthcare published results of Barometer of Czech health care from the point of view of hospital directors 2016. 77 directors-respondents from teaching, regional, city and private hospitals participated in the survey. 

The World Bank project summarized in the report proposes a pioneering approach to engaging the private sector, as well as science, public administration, and civic society, in co-creating innovation policy, selecting priorities for public innovation spending, and adjusting public support instruments to the real needs of Polish enterprises. 

General Manager of the government CzechInvest Agency Karel Kučera gave an interview to the Czech server Lupa.cz about newly opened Space Incubator in the Prague Startup Centre.