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24 April 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Foundations for Energy

Guest post by Alexander Silin, General Manager Sales - Europe -Thermal Products - GE Power & Water

CEE’s energy landscape is changing fast and that is not only a figure of speech: new power plants are appearing across the region as the industry strives to shift gear. At the end of last year, construction started of PGNiG and Tauron’s heat and power plant in Stalowa Wola and only last week I was in Wloclawek at the launch of another landmark project that will change Poland’s energy landscape for good and for the better. Both projects deploy GE’s advanced technologies.

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12 April 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Poland to Lead

Guest post Agnieszka Jankowska, Director Government Affairs and EU Policy GE Central Europe.

As you could read in a recent guest post by a Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, who’s nickname is ‘Ms Innovation’ there, history taught us that mankind can overcome crisis either by wars or innovation. We Europeans have a bad historical record of wars in the 20^th century therefore we should happily vote for the second tool. But innovation cannot be done only by the EU, the government or by the business or by individuals on a large scale. They jointly have to change the European or our country’s culture for a more innovation friendly one. Who and how should make it happen is the next question you may ask.

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5 April 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Run Your Town

Wondering how to teach your kids to be eco-friendly in a fun and exciting way? National Geographic, GE, and the Center for Science teamed up to create an excellent way to do that. Plan It Green: The Big Switch is a new, free online game that makes kids to mayors of their own cities, let them take over the planning. Today’s young people will be tomorrow’s engineers, utility executives and energy consumers, so it is time to switch the game on and let the fun begin!

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3 April 2013 Posted by Adriana Mirela Mircea

Time to Leave Your Comfort Zone

Innovation is not for the faint hearted: it is time to act and take risks, according to the participants of a multistakeholder media open discussion on innovation organized by AmCham Romania and GE held yesterday in Bucharest. Following similar roundtable events in Budapest, Warsaw and Prague key government and business representatives agreed that it is time to leave old habits behind: half solution will lead to half results. Excellence, on the other hand will stimulate the much needed boost in the region.

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22 March 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

World Water Day – Do your Share!

The source and vital ingredient of life. The most fascinating, but at the same time most fragile cycle on Earth. Most of us take it for granted but for many, clean and accessible water is an everyday challenge. Today is World Water Day. With this video we would like to thank all those around the world who work day by day to help produce clean water with the most advanced technologies. Make your mark: share it and let others know what an incredible job they are doing!

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8 March 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Czech Milestones in Innovation

Following the innovation roundtable events in Warsaw and Budapest, another high level meeting discussing innovation as a strategic advantage for CEE took place in Prague on 5 March 2013.
Stakeholders of the Czech government, universities, non- governmental and business institutions gathered to the roundtable event organized by GE and AmCham where the results of the 2013 GE Global Innovation Barometer were discussed in addition to the possible means of improving collaborative approach in the Czech Republic.

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18 February 2013 Posted by Zbigniew Mularczyk

Appetite For More

We live in a fast moving environment where innovations are made at high speed and the future is unclear, even for those involved in shaping it. These are the key sentiments reflected in the results of GE’s Global Innovation Barometer 2013. After its official presentation at the meeting of the Warsaw City Hall Innovation Council on 14 February 2013, you can now dive into the charts of the main Polish findings and see what our experts have to say about the results.

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15 February 2013 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Let’s Collaborate

Yesterday two simultaneous high level stakeholder roundtables discussed the need of a collaborative approach to innovation. The events took place at the Warsaw City Hall and in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest which are about 600 km far from each other, but the distance did not show in the content of the debates as the results of GE Innovation Barometer connected them. Both sessions were open for media.

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13 February 2013 Posted by Eszter Szabó

All You Need is… Collaboration

We are in the same boat, but are we rowing into the same direction? Financing, long-term collaboration and a vision & strategy adapted to global trends are needed to strengthen the role of CEE in global innovation. Sharing best practices and creating a lively debate are efficient ways to achieve hands-on results. These are about to happen at simultaneous stakeholder dialogues organized by GE and local institutions in CEE. The series is kicked off by simultaneous roundtables open for media in Warsaw and Budapest tomorrow: see how governments, executives, leaders in R&D and education make their mark on the region’s long term future.

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11 January 2013 Posted by Patricia Leary-Kreitzer

Accelerating Innovation

Guest post by Norman Eisen, U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic

Just over a year ago, I had the pleasure to host GE Aviation at my residence for the official unveiling of the H80 turbo-prop engine. GE’s H80, on display that night in the center of my house looked like a gift that any kid (including grown-up ones!) would want for the holidays. But the gleaming chrome and high-precision aviation parts represented more than just the anticipation of flight. The H80 also symbolized the qualities that have attracted so many U.S. companies to do business in the Czech Republic.

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