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World Bank: Toward an Innovative Poland: The Entrepreneurial Discovery Process and Business Needs Analysis | e15.cz: Prague replaces Warsaw as most attractive place for German investors
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.
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CzechStartups.org/Lupa.cz: Interview with CzechInvest GM Karel Kučera about Prague´s first Space Incubator
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.
OECD Global Economic Outlook June 2016: Czech Republic: Falling public investment is weighing on growth in 2016
GDP growth increased strongly in 2015, partly due to EU-financed public investment. Financial conditions and income growth will continue to support domestic demand, but falling public investment is weighing on growth in 2016. Although gains in market share are likely to be smaller than in recent years, stronger demand from European countries will support export growth, the newest OECD Economic Outlook says about the Czech Republic.
Czech Statistical Office: Private entities receive 1/6 of direct state R&D investment in 2014
According to the Czech Statistical Office, EU’s public expenditure on R&D accounted for 0.7% of EU’s GDP in 2014, compared with 0.8% of GDP in the United States of America and Japan. The Czech public expenditure on R&D (CZK 27bn, i.e. 0.6% of the country’s GDP) amounted to 1% of the EU’s expenditure volume. In the Czech Republic, private entities (80% of them were private companies) received direct state funding worth CZK 3.4bn in 2014, that is one-sixth of the total.
Invitation: TTIP: What is in it for Companies?
On 6 June, the conference TTIP: What is in it for Companies? will be held in Prague. Impacts of TTIP on SMEs, the latest state of play on SME cooperation between the European Commission and the US Administration, and the US business culture, as well as challenges that companies encounter during their expansion in the US market will be discussed.
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.
