The Ekonom weekly recognized the town of Humpolec as the Czech town most favorable for business in 2015. The town is half-way between Prague and Brno, at the D1 highway connecting the two largest Czech cities. It has low unemployment rate, high share of entrepreneurs, businesses and large employers, and receved good rating for management of the town finance.

EconLab, a think-tank at the Charles University Prague, published a study Collaborative purchasing: foreign best practices and lessons learned for the Czech Republic. The study outlines how far procurements of the government are centralized and gives recommendations how to improve the current situation.

Carnegie Europe asked experts such as Shawn Donnan, World trade editor at the Financial Times, Krzysztof Bledowski, Director of economic studies at the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, Reinhard Bütikofer, Co-chair of the European Green Party and member of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with the United States...

The Best Cooperation of the Year 2016 Award for applied research goes to Sci-Trace, a unique laser-based material analysis instrument. It is a worldwide unique device that has no global competition so far. Project leaders were the Central European Institute of Technology CEITEC, which belongs to the University of Technology in Brno, and the companies AtomTrace and Tescan. Sci-Trace can analyze any solid, liquid and gaseous samples without any preparation and in just a few seconds. (Uvnitř informace, videa v českém a anglickém jazyce.)