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Along with the increasing popularity of the technology debate in Austria during the last years and after numerous discussions with ICT researchers in the Centrope countries I realised that there is a striking resemblance in their complaints, although the statements themselves express the respective opposite. See also http://noweurope.com/2009/09/08/barriers-cooperation/#more-1293 by Vlastimil.

Simply speaking, the Austrians complain that there’s not enough money for basic research as all goes to applied research, whereas the Czech and Slovak Republics as well as Hungary (representing the situation in virtually all new EU member states and beyond) complain that universities concentrate too much on basic research and do not understand the importance of applied research. Continue reading ‘Basic vs. applied research: Potentials unused?’

Since the beginning of May you can find the CITT project output – CETEX – Central European Technology Exchange at http://www.cetex.org. The target of the above named communication solution is to provide the user group from the ICT industry segment within the CENTROPE region with an opportunity to join the CETEX community.

The CETEX community is an open community of companies and organizations, which might utilize the possibility and chance to find co-operation partners and/or know-how exchange. Concurrently, CETEX is opening the solution for cooperation with selected international networks in order to provide the community users with the best of the breed on the know-how, innovation market and boost the offering and collection of current offers and demands for technology cooperation, as well as for innovative know how transfer.

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