Thursday 29 October 2009 | Vol.01 - No.05



Special Focus: Czech Industry

Czech Republic has constantly been one of the most stable and prosperous post-Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. Even though the country has undergone an immense political and economical transition managed to copy with it and without significant political or economical drawbacks. Actually, Czech Republic underwent a triple transformation as except form the socioeconomical transformation that all the communist countries had to undergone Czech Republic had to go through one more, the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took place on 1 January 1993. ++ more

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RayService, Cable Systems
RayService is a Czech private company that was founded in 1994. Nowadays RayService is activated in the domain of design, production and maintenance of cable harnesses. The company products are used in a wide spectrum of application that varies from highly demanded applications in military, airborne and transportation systems to a wide range of other industrial and commercial applications. Additionally, RayService is a distributor of cable harness components manufactured by world producers like Tyco Electronics and ITT Cannon. RayService is a dynamically developing company continuously investing into its development with the aim to build up a strong and modern company which will be a reliable and sought-after partner. ++ more

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Epicos "Project Opportunities"
Epicos "Project Opportunities" provides a unique set of online tools enabling the structure, identification and implementation of comprehensive Offsets programs, through a searchable database. By introducing different offset projects and ideas proposed by local A&D industry it ensures the optimum cost for Prime Contractors and reassures that the priorities of local industry are fully met... ++ more

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Climbing training simulator for special operations forces

A company is proposing the development and installation of a complete climbing training simulator, to be used for simulating training in individual climbing skills and methods. The climbing training simulator will be used by Special Forces, as well as emergency rescue teams supporting reliable and secure simulation of several different operational scenarios.


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Installation of special protection equipment against virulent diseases to ambulance car used in several homeland security applications

A leading Czech company in the design, manufacture and distribution of medical emergency products for Civil and Military use proposes a project which aims to the installation of virulent protection equipment into special made ambulance car. The proposed equipment will support ensure safe transfer of the patient and the assisting personnel to the hospital eliminating transferring of the virulent disease to any other person.




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A Successful Transformation? Restructuring of the Czech Automobile Industry, by Petr Pavlinek

All the economic structure of Czech Republic has been changed after the fall of the communist regime. The automotive industry has not being an exception. This book is trying to delineate these changes and investigate the complex processes of the post-1990 transformation in the Czech automotive industry and its selective integration in the West European automobile manufacturing system. Specifically, the book examines the development and post-1990 restructuring of the Czech passenger car industry, the components industry and truck manufacturing. Some of the most important topics that are covered include the development of the Czech automotive industry before 1990, the detailed case study of Skoda Auto and the effects of the post-1990 privatization in the Czech automotive industry.


The Czech Republic and the Varieties of Capitalism Approach: Is the Czech Market Economy Liberal or Coordinated? , by Lenka Klimplova

Modern capitalism is not of a singular form. In the contrary several varieties exist. This book aims to apply the Varieties of Capitalism approach developed by Hall and Soskice (2001) to the case of the Czech Republic and ascertain whether the Czech market economy is approaching a liberal or a coordinated ideal type defined by these authors. The book is trying to delineate a complicated process of economic and institutional transformation that the country had undergone. It must be regarded as a must read for all readers that are interested in reading a theoretical approach of the capitalistic system that has been established in the Czech Republic after 1990.



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