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.
Continue reading ‘Cluster Discussion & Speak Brusselese: Details Outwit Strategies’
EU Commissioner, Viviane Redding, has made few friends among mobile operators. They now have another reason to grumble, according eTREND magazine.
After her successful campaign for cheaper mobile voice roaming charges in Europe, Redding is preparing for another crusade. Her goal is to lower the European mobile operator rates for roaming text messages, e-mails and Internet.
Continue reading ‘Mobile operators have another reason to hate Vivienne Redding’
In order to promote business meetings between companies at interregional and international scale, the Chamber of Commerce of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, together with its Enterprise Europe Network partners from 15 different European Regions, have combined their efforts to organise the third edition of the professional B2B platform “SME Forum”.
This year’s edition will take place for the second time during the professional trade fair “CONTACT” at the LUXEXPO Exhibition Centre in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on 27th and 28th November 2008.
Continue reading ‘SME Forum 2008: Luxembourg’s B2B matchmaking platform’
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.
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?
Continue reading ‘IBM CEE: Na shledanou to Vienna’
I am very glad to have the opportunity to be a nowEurope contributor. With my first article and warm welcome I would like to call your attention to global warming, in particular to the ICT aspects of the combat against climate change.
As part of its effort to combat climate change, the European Commission recently announced that it would promote the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) to improve energy efficiency throughout the economy.
Continue reading ‘ICT to combat climate change’
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.
Continue reading ‘CITT: Add “Technology Transfer” to Europe’s vocabulary!’
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