Encouraged by recent postings and an interesting article from Romania from 2006 http://mises.org/story/2371 I want to join the brain drain debate.
Austria has been suffering from brain drain during the entire 2nd half of the 20th century but has recently introduced measures to get good people back: An organisation called BrainPower www.brainpower-austria.at, a department of Austria’s research funding and promotion agency FFG www.ffg.at is offering support for researchers who are interested in getting back to Austria (jobs, accommodation, travel costs, information etc.). They work closely together with an organisation called ASCINA, Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America, an initiative of the Office of Science and Technology (OST) at the Austrian Embassy in Washington D.C. www.ascina.at, this, because a major part of the brains that emigrated have drained to North America.
Networking plus practical support obviously help, as their statistics show, but the best proof for real breakthroughs is “give them appropriate playgrounds, and they come back themselves”.
Continue reading ‘Brain Drain: The Austrians have suffered and learned’
One of the foremost tasks of the CITT project is to assess the ICT related research and technology landscape of the Centrope region. In order to achieve this aim we would like to get comprehensive information about the activities of the companies, universities and research institutions involved in R&D in the area of ICT.
Detailed information help us to approach the narrow segments of companies and research organizations that match for a certain research issue.
Thus, we would greatly appreciate your support in compiling data about your activities. Please participate in the survey and fill in the online questionnaire:
Survey for institutions
Survey for companies
For further information regarding the survey please visit the CITT webportal.
Partnership between the private sector (mainly the SMEs) and the academic institutions is considered as an ideal combination for the technology-based co-operation for the FP project proposals preparation. Eastern Slovak company PROCESNÁ AUTOMATIZÁCIA a.s. Košice has started a co-operation with the Technical university in 2003 and nowadays the company participates in two FP funded projects benefiting from the structures built under this co-operation.
The company
PROCESNÁ AUTOMATIZÁCIA, a. s., Košice (PA), is an IT SME company established in 1992. Currently it has 110 employees and 85 % of them are multilingual IT specialists with a university education. PA has a certified quality management system (ISO 9001:2000). The company is a partner of the Technical University of Košice – in the area of R&D projects (solutions for metallurgical industry - key player in the area is U.S.Steel Košice).
PA provides design, development, implementation, service and maintenance of control and information systems for various industries, systems for planning, management and optimisation of production, material flow and warehouses, complete systems for logistics, transport, software integration, outsourcing, training and consultancy in the IT area. Continue reading ‘PROCESNÁ AUTOMATIZÁCIA: Development of projects through industry - academy partnership’
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