A fenntartható energiával foglalkozó európai innovációkat felkaroló InnoEnergy nemzetközi pályázatot hirdetett.

Az Óbudai Egyetem és a Tungsram közös szervezésű Fényes Smart City Hackathonja október 26-27. között zajlott 47 diák részvételével.

In the past couple of years, Chinese companies have steadily increased their economic presence and expanded their investment portfolio in the Central and Eastern European region. While cooperation between CEE countries and China is still far from its full potency, the institutionalization of the relationship through the 16+1 framework and the continuing political support in the region for doing business with Chinese companies indicate that this tendency is likely to continue in the future. CEE countries, however, are facing a dilemma between encouraging and welcoming the flow of Chinese foreign direct investment, on the one hand, and safeguarding strategic sectors and industries of their national economies, on the other.
As of September 2017, only 12 out of the 28 member states (Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the UK), had some kind of a national investment screening mechanism in place for the sake of balancing between these two considerations. Since these national screening mechanisms reflect unique characteristics and vary significantly in scope and design, the European Commission has put forward a proposal to regulate the matter more systematically by establishing a collective screening framework, providing oversight for investment projects or programs involving the community’s interest. While official documents do not single out Chinese companies to explain the need for such protective regulation, the EU’s concerns and suspicions about Chinese investors nonetheless provide one important rationale for an effective investment screening mechanism.
[…] Bővebben!

In the past couple of years, Chinese companies have steadily increased their economic presence and expanded their investment portfolio in the Central and Eastern European region. While cooperation between CEE countries and China is still far from its full potency, the institutionalization of the relationship through the 16+1 framework and the continuing political support in the region for doing business with Chinese companies indicate that this tendency is likely to continue in the future. CEE countries, however, are facing a dilemma between encouraging and welcoming the flow of Chinese foreign direct investment, on the one hand, and safeguarding strategic sectors and industries of their national economies, on the other.
As of September 2017, only 12 out of the 28 member states (Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the UK), had some kind of a national investment screening mechanism in place for the sake of balancing between these two considerations. Since these national screening mechanisms reflect unique characteristics and vary significantly in scope and design, the European Commission has put forward a proposal to regulate the matter more systematically by establishing a collective screening framework, providing oversight for investment projects or programs involving the community’s interest. While official documents do not single out Chinese companies to explain the need for such protective regulation, the EU’s concerns and suspicions about Chinese investors nonetheless provide one important rationale for an effective investment screening mechanism.
[…] Bővebben!

Two prominent international Business Schools, the EISE in Barcelona and the EM in Lyon ranked 125 countries of the world on the ninth occasion according to how attractive they are for investments by VC and PE companies. (The study can be downloaded here.) It is not difficult to guess the first ten countries: (1) the […]
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A Hiventures tőkealaptól 2018-ban összesen 7,26 milliárd forint kihelyezésére került sor, amiből 107  vállalkozás kapott segítséget. Ez az összeg 53 inkubációs, 10 magvető és 6 növekedési életszakaszban lévő vállalkozás tőkeinjekciójára volt elegendő. 

EU–Szingapúr kereskedelmi egyezmény köttetett a világ GDP-jének 65%-át felvonultató brüsszeli EU–Ázsia csúcson: szinte az összes vám el lesz törölve pár év alatt. Mivel az EU…

Elhúzódó informatikushiánnyal küzd a magyar munkaerőpiac, az információtechnológiai területről több tízezer szakember hiányzik. Ráadásul úgy tűnik, hogy a közeljövőben sem várható a helyzet javulása.