Tag Archive for 'Centrope'

Why isn’t this a Hungarian, Czech, Slovak or Austrian university?

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Steven Carlson
  on  November 11, 2008
  in  Business innovation, Current events, Hungary and Innovation policy
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My fellow nowEurope contributor, Guenther Krumpak, recently pointed out that European universities consistently rank at the bottom of the Times Higher Education Supplement university rankings. Geunther suggested a possible Anglo Saxon bias in the list. Perhaps. It would depend on the methodology.

What I’d like to know is how well are European universities keeping relevant with important commercial trends. I read today that Stanford University has a launched a new course to train iPhone developers. Wired’s Gadget Lab reports that worldwide demand for iPhone developers has jumped 500% in the last six months.

Can you imagine a Centrope university that responds so swiftly to market demand?

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Cluster Discussion & Speak Brusselese: Details Outwit Strategies

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Guenther Krumpak
  on  October 29, 2008
  in  Austria
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This post refers to more recent ones on clusters. I didn’t follow the usual comment path as this text is simply too long. Not only “Brussels” is speaking a lot about clusters, most European governments do as well without looking into the specifics of what “cluster” means for individual industries and what is to be expected by their creation.

A cluster is definitely not just a heap of companies piled upon each other in one spot under the motto “collaborate!”

Clusters are complex networks with different points of departure and different operative practices, depending on sector and target.

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nowEurope is a web of relationships

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Steven Carlson
  on  August 13, 2008
  in  About CITT
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Most people think a blog is about printed words. And it is. However, what you might not know is that the lifeblood of a blog is human relationships. There is more going on behind your computer screen than meets the eye.

This dynamic might be obvious to those of you who spend most of your days online (like me). Others might appreciate a few insights into how this works - and how you can take part.

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Are we trapped in a vicious loop?

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Guenther Krumpak
  on  August 7, 2008
  in  Austria and Uncategorized
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This post is somehow a free analysis of my observations, and you, dear readers and bloggers, can verify together with me if my observations and conclusions apply.

Recently I commented IBM CEE’s move from Vienna to Prague. I said that this move has no reasonable background, as the Czech Republic is no low-cost low-wage country anymore and if IBM wants growth, why not go to Russia right away.

At the same time it was announced that Siemens rail vehicles is closing down in Prague. No tit-for-tat feelings. Everybody who has his/her eyes open can see that classical production moves east.

Yesterday I attended an event where one of Austria’s top ICT researchers, Bruno Buchberger (one of the top three worldwide in Symbolic Computation) presented his new master studies program mainly targeted to foreigners as in Austria they do not have enough top qualified computer science students.

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IBM CEE: Na shledanou to Vienna

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Guenther Krumpak
  on  June 27, 2008
  in  Austria, Czech Republic and Facts, figures & trends
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Vienna’s position as CEE’s ICT capital has suffered quite a blow by IBM’s announcement to move its CEE headquarters to Prague. Beware: I love Prague, I live there, but the decision’s wording “to move growth market activities to growth markets” sounds rather shallow if applied to the Czech Republic. Sure the country has growth potentials that the EU15 have lost long ago, but then why not move IBM CEE to Ukraine or Russia right away?

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CITT: Add “Technology Transfer” to Europe’s vocabulary!

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Guenther Krumpak
  on  May 7, 2008
  in  About CITT, Austria, Czech Republic, EU funding programmes, Hungary and Slovakia
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I am pleased to be able to contribute for the first time to a new nowEurope issue that so far has been quite underestimated in some European countries: Technology transfer, in particular in ICT.

The core business of CITT is to devise a strategy to establish and get running a viable cooperation between the ICT industry and research. Although a lot has been done recently on national and EU levels, Europe still gives away too much technology and know how to competing markets.

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