Zoltán Cséfalvay – författare

This proceedings volume is the 32nd issue of the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, which is the official book series of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES, www.ebesweb.org). The volume includes selected papers presented at the 45th EBES Conference, which took place in Budapest from October 11th to 13th, 2023 and was hosted by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest (Hungary). In the conference, 187 papers by 381 colleagues from 58 countries were presented. The conference was held both in hybrid with both in-person and online paper presentation format.

This proceedings volume is the 32nd issue of the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, which is the official book series of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES, www.ebesweb.org). The volume includes selected papers presented at the 45th EBES Conference, which took place in Budapest from October 11th to 13th, 2023 and was hosted by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest (Hungary). In the conference, 187 papers by 381 colleagues from 58 countries were presented. The conference was held both in hybrid with both in-person and online paper presentation format.

Why is it that we cannot predict the technological future? Is the destruction of the old truly an inevitable companion to the birth of the new? Are our reservations about new technologies justified? How will artificial intelligence reshape economic competition among nations? Can the state have any meaningful active role in innovation at all? Why has Europe fallen behind in the innovation race? And why does an invisible iron curtain still exist, one that keeps Central and Eastern Europe from competing with new startups in the global innovation arena? What can we learn from the success of Silicon Valley, Estonia, Israel, or Singapore?These questions continue to captivate economists, policymakers, and the wider public alike because the past 250 years have clearly shown that the countries that made it into the club of the wealthy were those at the forefront of technological innovation, while the others remained confined in the low- or middle-income trap.Through a comprehensive exploration encompassing illuminating examples and statistical analysis, Zoltan Csefalvay examines the connections between free competition, the digital economy, technological progress, and innovation, and how their complex dynamics lead to success in the competition among nations.Prof. Dr. Zoltan Csefalvay heads the Centre for Next Technological Futures at Mathias Corvinus Collegium (Budapest), where he gives lectures and conducts research on digitalisation, robotisation, and artificial intelligence in Europe. Previously, he worked as a senior researcher at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Seville (2019 2020). He served as the Hungarian ambassador to the OECD and UNESCO in Paris (2014 2018) and as Minister of State for Economic Strategy in Hungary (2010 2014). He was Professor of Economic Geography at Andrassy University Budapest (2002 2010) and Professor at Kodolanyi Janos University in Hungary for more than two decades. As a research fellow, he worked in Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Heidelberg, and Cardiff. He is the author of 15 books and more than 80 articles in edited books and peer-reviewed journals in English, German, and Hungarian. He recently published his latest book FREEDOM, INNOVATION, PROSPERITY: The Secrets of Success in the Digital Era about the impact of the current wave of new technologies on business, society, and geopolitics.

"e;In our time, venture-backed startups are generating radically new technological and business ideas; they are the ones who are discovering the future. And as with any discovery process based on trial and error, the vast majority of startups fail within a relatively short period of time. But those who survive and push the boundaries of the unknown unknowns usually do so because they possess a special kind of knowledge that their competitors lack. Therefore, the four papers of this new volume of Studies on Innovation, Technologies and Regions from the MCC Centre for Next Technological Futures not only summarise its research activities in the academic years 2024 and 2025, but they also provide analyses of the relationship between startups and knowledge in European cities from di??ferent perspectives and on various topics. Be it the successful startups that use artifi cial intelligence, the startups that not only survived the period from 2021 to 2024 but were actually able to grow, the countries that apply clean and green energy solutions, or the European cities that can rely on universities, which are a breeding ground for startup founders-they all demonstrate the increasing importance of knowledge. This is why this volume is titled Startups and Knowledge."e;