Patrik Reichl, CEO of CzechInvest, the Investment and Business Development Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, breaks down the role of the agency in implementing the Innovation Strategy 2019–2030 and transforming the Czech Republic as the “Country for the Future” by fostering a local start-up ecosystem, attracting smart investments in high, added-value R&D, and more manufacturing projects. Reichl also discusses the investments made in the infrastructure of life sciences research, a sector considered as one of key priorities in the field of research by the government.
The third pillar [of the Czech Innovation Strategy], dubbed Smart Marketing, is about changing the image of the Czech Republic from a low-cost manufacturing location to an innovative country where tomorrow’s technologies are being developed
