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I wrote some remarks about the threat of brain-drain from Central Europe to USA.  Recently, I have met some intelligent cosmopolitan guys, who confirmed my opinion that brain drain actually can be useful. The question is how to make most out of it? A solution may appear …

Three intelligent people. One of them is an Assistant Professor and Research Associate in quantum optics at New York’s Hunter College. The second lectures in financial engineering on Wall Street. The third is an Assistant Research Professor in bioengineering in Florida. All three are of these people Hungarians who have made successful careers in the United States. And each has to returned to Hungary and is now working in Szombathely.

Each of these three people wanted to meet partner organizations and businesses, to co-operate and utilize their know-how. In our CITT team we agreed internally, that a network of know-how is the way to support local academia. I am convinced that we have interesting personalities to integrate in. Pool of experts linked to each other and to the business - as planned on our partnership - can be a very efficient vehicle of generating innovation.

And why did they come home? They have children to raise, and they want to do it in a native and healthy environment. And in the meantime they publish in American journals. So, maybe, Central Europe, as a garden to live in, is not a bad idea.