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ICT Brokerage Brno: ICT better off than other industries

Published on May 6, 2009 in Current events and Facts, figures & trends. 2 Comments Tags: bratislava, brno, Brussels, business europe, CEconsult, cee businesses, central europe, Centrope, CITT, cooperative research projects, czech market, Czech Republic, eastern europe, eastern european, eastern european countries, ec projects, EU funding programme, Europe, european commission, european commission officials, european union, fav, global competitiveness, global markets, Guenther Krumpak, Hungary, IBM, ICT, ITBeurope, matchmaking, multinationals, networking events, public investment, R&D spending, research and development, research budget, single currency, Slovakia, software companies, technology transfer projects.

In the framework of the Czech Republic’s EU presidency Masaryk University in Brno, CITT partner First Innovation Park and others organised an EU project information and brokerage event on April 30, 2009, where I had the honour and pleasure to speak. The hall was full, people interested and attentive. Allow me therefore this time to comment myself.

Originally I planned to talk about chances and risks in R&D and EU activities in Central Europe, but facing the present economic situation I thought I should rather offer general information on what is happening in the ICT markets in the region. Continue reading ‘ICT Brokerage Brno: ICT better off than other industries’

NETIES is ending

Published on January 10, 2007 in Current events. 0 Comments Tags: business plans, central and eastern europe, consortium, foreign partners, framework, individual consulting, internet development, networking events, smes, social networks, technology innovation, Venture capital.

The 6th Framework Programme is practically over and so it is our NETIES project. In last two years we surveyed over 750 SMEs, organised 32 networking events, workshops or conferences attended by 1750 people in six countries. The consortium provided 84 individual consulting sessions and coached 31 companies in the area of finding foreign partners, improving and presenting their business plans or FP6 applications.

22 contributors from 11 countries published more than 300 posts here sharing their experience, views and comments on the topics of technology innovation, R&D funding, venture capital and Central and Eastern Europe. NowEurope attracted totally 30,000 unique visitors over the period. Thank you all.

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