The Big Bet: Economy of Innovation in the Czech Republic

Organizer

American Chamber of Commerce
in the Czech Republic

When

27.06.2023, 09:00 - 27.06.2023, 12:00

Where

Budova Churchill I, Italská 2581/67, Vinohrady, Praha 2 Show on map

What

Czechia has risen to unprecedented prosperity by manufacturing the innovation developed in Western Europe, America and Japan and exporting it to the rest of thw world. Now, the government says it wants to become one of the innovative economies. It will take a change in mindset and policy to walk that talk. Are ministries, universities and businesses ready to make the changes needed and take the risks necessary for the country to fulfill the country’s high innovative potential? 

A debate on the future of Czech innovation organized by AmCham Czechia and Deloitte to answer three questions:

What should be the aim of a Czech innovation strategy and what measure should we use to judge its success?

How can public spendin on research generate great private investment in research?

How would universities  and public research institutions need to change their roles and practices to become central to innovation?

Panel One. Policy goals and strategy

What should be the aim of a Czech innovation strategy and what measure should we use to judge its success?

Panel Leaders: Jaroslav Škvrna of Deloitte and Milan Šlapák of RSBC.

Panel Participants: Ondřej Krajíček of Y Soft, Luděk Hanáček of Deloitte

other participants TBC

Content: What model will deliver the best result for the Czech Economy: one based on increasing high value-added exports and developing those with the highest commitment from private sector investors, one based on targeting certain sectors of the economy, or one based on  the current system of distributing research money widely across universities and the business sector while emphasizing company size? How do we effectively measure results of any of these three models?

Panel Two. Private Cooperation on Technology

How can public spending on research generate greater private investment in research?

Panel Leaders: Jaroslav Škvrna of Deloitte and Milan Šlapák of RSBC.

Panel Participants: Michal Lorenc of onsemi

other participants TBC

Content: Does the current system of subsidies, incentives and deductions generate the optimal amount of private investment for every public koruna invested/foregone? Does public money substitute private investment or supplement it? Does it not only generate private investment but exported high value added technology or licensing fees? How could the system change to generate more investment and higher ratio of advanced technology for private investment?

Panel Three. Creating the Innovation Workforce

How would universities  and public research institutions need to change their roles and practices to become central to innovation?

Panel Leaders: Jaroslav Škvrna of Deloitte and Milan Šlapák of RSBC.

Panel Participants: Tomas Szaszi of Honeywell, Eva Drhlíková of Deloitte

other participants TBC

Content: How can universities attract more STEM students and graduate them with higher levels of qualification? How can universites adapt their curriculums to prepare students to develop more complex technologies? How do universities adapt their research activities to become global leaders in “applicable” research?