The UPC Ignite Your Business project awards best business ideas. The winners were announced at the ceremony on 7 October:

1. Producing drinking water from contaminated water (VTI - Research Technology Institute)

2. EasyCargo

3. Sentisquare

Pavel Bèlobrádek, Vice-president for research, development and innovation said he "wanted the Czech Republic to become nano"; nanotechnologies should be pushed forward. Find out more here and here.