Creati ng New Services, Products, and Values for Real People
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using environmentally-friendly technologies. We and our
partners create an innovation ecosystem as a platform
for collaboration, where we implement so-called system
projects together with organizations, universities, secondary
schools, and businesses so as to enhance the business and
innovation environment. Our mutual cooperation provides
for these projects to start up really quickly.
We have received a positive response to the projects of
the Expat Center in Ostrava. We were to check if a project
like this is viable. We promptly created a center providing
foreigners with so-called soft-landing services, allowing easy
acclimatisation to Ostrava. The center is doing very well and
people are interested in its services.
What are your plans for the future? What are you currently
preparing?
We are very busy with plans to extend our technology park.
Our current capacities are not suffi cient any more. We are
thinking about the shared facilities we would like to have.
Currently, there are two shared laboratories: the Idea Hub
is the place where prototypes of new products are made,
and the Laboratory of Collaborative Robotics tests so-called
cobots, i.e. robots operating intuitively with regards to
humans.
We have focused on the project of the Living Lab,
aimed at the creation and verification of commercial
models. Consider autonomous cars. The Living Lab
will test the product and its connection to relevant
services in a simulation of a natural environment with
real customers. In cooperation with businesses and
their customers, we will come to a new value. The
world does not need many more cars. We need cars in
motion, not left passive, parked in the city where they
take precious space. Future companies will not sell
autonomous cars on their own, they will sell mobility
as a service.
Each job brings ups and downs. What have you personally
achieved at the MSIC?
My view of a failure is dynamic. You are defeated only
if you give up completely. Temporary failures to achieve
a goal must be solved, and I am not afraid to discuss
them. My temporary failure is communication with some
politicians and offi cials. This can be really diffi cult at
times. I feel very positive when we fi nally understand one
another and fi nd a way to move ahead. By interconnecting
the world and culture of enterprise with the world of state
administration, we can achieve a lot. There are many
tasks which businesses or the state administration will not
manage on their own.
Even after three years on the job, I still enjoy my work, no
matter how hard and time-consuming it is. It makes sense
and my work is my hobby, even though it sounds like a cliché.
The more I help people achieve a state of mind similar to
mine, the greater number of satisfi ed entrepreneurs and
happy employees in enterprise there will be.
Thank you for the interview.