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International Workshop on "Scale-up of Innovative SMEs"
22 Sep 2017
The Strategy of Research and Development section of the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic organized a workshop on "Scale-up of Innovative SMEs" in the conference room of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague on September 19, 2017.
The main speaker Bertrand van Ee, representative of AcTI (Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation) and a head of Euro-CASE Innovation Platform II., introduced the activities of the Euro-CASE Innovation Platform II., its recommendations for the EU and EU Member States and - in particular - a draft of the Euro-CASE Position Paper “Barriers to Innovation and Scale-up of Innovative SMEs”.
Silvia Jirásková in her contribution: “Enterprise Europe Network & Scale-up Project in the Czech Republic“ presented the activities of the Technology Centre of the Academy of Sciences and of the South Moravian Innovation Centre focused on increasing innovation capacities of small and medium-sized enterprises. Particularly she introduced the ScaleCzechSMEs project aimed at supporting rapidly growing small and medium - sized enterprises.
Petr Očko from the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic in his contribution “Scale-up Support Programs of the Technology Agency CR" presented the activities of TA CR focused mainly on small and medium-sized enterprises and on the support for Czech applicants from the first phase of the SME Instrument - Horizon 2020.
Discussion followed on those policy recommendations which could be applicable in the Czech Republic. Position papers originating from the Innovation Platform activities are available on www.euro-case.org.
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Jiří Janošec, FEng.
Strategy of Research and Development EACR
MailTo: ckto@eacr.cz
Photonics at the EU-US Frontiers of Engineering in Finland
10 Nov 2016
Urban mobility, CO2 capture and storage, integrated photonics and smart systems for personalized health care were the four themes of the interdisciplinary symposium EU-US Frontiers of Engineering which was held from the 17th to the 19th October 2016 at the Aalto University near Helsinki, Finland. About 60 outstanding engineers from Europe and the USA around the age of 35-45 years were selected to attend the symposium. The photonics session was co-chaired by Pavel Peterka from the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
International workshop of Platform "Engineering Education", Prague May 28,2015 - Presentations and Discussion
7 Jun 2015
2015 - 20 Years of the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic
29 Mar 2015
The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic will culminate
on May 28, 2015 - evening 19:00
by a festive session of the EACR and a chamber concert at the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague.
Engineering Education : Transformation and Innovation - Executive Summary
15 Feb 2015