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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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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