CTP Co-hosts CED Logic 2012
28.06.2012Company: CTP Invest, spol. s r.o.
A high-powered audience was on hand for CED Logic 2012, a half-day seminar focusing on investment and the industrial property market in the Czech Republic. The event took place on 14 June 2012 at the Jalta Hotel in Prague’s Old Town.
Co-hosted by CTP in partnership with CIJ – Construction and Investment Journal (Roberts Publishing Media Group), the seminar took a fresh look at the role of the state in promoting new investments in the Czech Republic and the relationship between the public and private sectors in the current economic environment, where the state is facing the pressures of austerity.
Remon Vos, CEO of CTP, played a pivotal role in the discussion. In his presentation, he warned that while manufacturing companies may get short-term benefits from the types of incentives currently provided by CzechInvest, the state must play its hand carefully or risk biasing the market and becoming fiscally unsound.
Other speakers at the event included Ferdinand Hlobil (Cushman & Wakefield), Jan Polter (Dachser Czech Republic), Daniele Fanin (VUB) and Ondrej Votruba (Czech Invest).
One of themes that emerged from the discussion is that further investment into education and training may have a more positive impact on competitiveness than short-term incentives for investors. The Czech Republic boasts a highly educated workforce particularly strong in IT, engineering, applied sciences, life sciences and foreign languages, and this competitive advantage can be expanded.
There are 24 state universities and numerous private colleges in the Czech Republic, with nearly 400,000 students. Excellence in higher education is not restricted to Prague: there are top-rated universities in several regional cities, including Brno, Ostrava and Plzen. State investment into higher education includes public-private partnerships in areas such as innovation and R&D.
