AmCham Advocacy: Accelerating Innovation

Sovereignty is not having the right to decide. Sovereignty is the ability to execute what you decide.

Superior technology is what enables you to execute. Superior technology is the foundation of security. And superior technology generates the prosperity that pays for that security.

The transatlantic relationship has delivered superior technology for more than a century to both Europe and the United States of America. Despite the rising competition from a multiplying number of nations who also want the rewards of an innovative economy, the transatlantic relationship still provides an essential competitive advantage for businesses, universities and governments on both sides of the Atlantic today.

That is what we argue to those who want to replace the transatlantic economy with something new that we should not replace an exclamation point with a question mark. 

For a little over two years, AmCham has travelled around the Czech Republic with Karel Havlicek to discuss with leading innovative companies how they do what they do, and what it would take for them to do more of it in Czechia. We have been having the same debates with Ladislav Janicek of VUTB and Michal Pechoucek of CVUT. 

On April 2, we all gathered to listen to ten proposals of how to build a critical mass in advanced technologies from Michal Lorenc of the Czech Semiconductor Association, Petr Strelec of Thermofisher Scientific, Karin Bacmanakova of Bristol Myers Squibb, Ondrej Krajicek of Y Soft, Dalibor Kacmar of Microsoft, Tomas Szaszi of Honeywell, Jan Matulik of Garrett Motion, Alexandr Jernek of Linet, and Juraj Sedivy of Cetin. 

Those presentations provide AmCham with our roadmap for what we will do over the next twelve months. 

Members can receive the slidedeck by writing Barbora at bvitova@amcham.cz