The country rightfully places much pride in its intellectual heritage. To maintain this advantage in the future, the government will need to take strong step in both education and research so that the country can achieve its place among the world’s elite. To succeed, a new policy needs to educate tomorrow’s graduates in the skills required by a knowledge economy.

• Government should build  multi-disciplinary student-centric education system – linked across schools, tertiary institutions and workforce training. This goal can be achieved by leveraging adaptive learning programs and learning portfolios for students, collaborative technologies and digital learning resources for teachers a students, computerized administration, monitoring and reporting. The aim is  to keep teachers in the classroom, have better information on our learners and provide online learning resources for students everywhere. Apart from format of education, necessary steps need to be taken also in the content. Multi-disciplinary skills, mastering emerging technology trends, having developed soft-skills - these are the key assets for future graduates.
• In order to compete at the global level, universities need to specialize and to cooperate more. The government should invest in developing single centers of combined research and educative excellence in key technological areas.
  • A set proportion of spending should be devoted annually to increasing the academic and research capabilities of these centers.
  • Teaching and research chairs should be created at these centers and funded by private donations. Professors and researchers should be recruited from universities and centers not only in the Czech Republic, but across Europe.
• For a five year period, 60% of all research money should be devoted to applied research to allow Czech companies to compete technologically against better funded competitors. This research should be assessed not only by patents produced but also by how many jobs were created in the Czech Republic.
• Policies should be enacted which would increase the private levels of investment into research. This may require revision of intellectual property rules, particularly those related to publicly-funded research.
• Conflicts-of-interest in public research spending should be resolved by separating granting and assessment agencies from research agencies. Clear measurements to measure the effectiveness of research should be established.