“The renewal of the innovation system is moving in the right direction, in view of the fact that while Hungary only spent 1.35 percent of GDP on research and development (R&D) in 2017, last year it spent 1.53 percent of GDP, 654 billion forints (EUR 1.99 billion) on R&D, and next year this ratio is expected to reach the target of 1.8 percent”, State Secretary József Bódis from the Ministry for Innovation and Technology said at a press conference in Budapest on Monday.
Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics called for the deepening of Slovenian-Hungarian economic relations and the expansion of innovation cooperation at an event held by the Slovenian Tourism Board in Budapest on Monday.
“In October 1956, the Hungarian youngsters did something sensations: they hammered the first nail into the coffin of the superpower with the greatest military might of the age”, Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics said at a commemoration held at the University of Technology and Economics in Budapest on Tuesday.
“1956 occupies a special place in our hearts; this is the origin of all our achievements”, Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics said on Monday at a ceremony at the Vigadó Concert Hall in Budapest, where he presented state awards and university and college academic appointments to mark the anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Fight for Freedom.
“Brussels cannot have an effect on areas that fall within a national sphere of competence, such as education, healthcare, or social policy, but it does interfere by including into funding policy conditions that serve Western European goals and interests”, the Ministry of Innovation and Technology’s Parliamentary State Secretary Tamás Schanda said at a professional conference in Budapest on Thursday.
Sustainability, also declared in the European Commission’s new action plan, which can be achieved in transport through the reduction of the emission of pollutants is important, the Minister of State for Transport Policy of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology said on Wednesday on the public service television news channel M1.
The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) will open a central European office in Hungary; the agreement was signed at the Budapest Water Summit by Péter Kaderják, Minister of State of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology and Frank Rijsberman, Director-General of GGGI’s European office.
According to plans, from 2022 the government will only support the procurement and further development of electric buses, and as part of the national bus strategy, in the next ten years they will spend HUF 36 billion on the procurement of mostly electric buses.
“Over the past nine years the Hungarian automotive industry has more than doubled its output, during which time the number of people employed in the sector has also increased by 34 percent”, the Ministry for Innovation and Technology’s State Secretary for Economic Strategy and Regulation László György said on Wednesday at the opening ceremony of the Automotive Hungary international automotive industry suppliers’ expo at the Hungexpo Budapest Congress and Exhibition Centre.
Technological innovation was the topic of the fourth China-Central and Eastern European conference held in Belgrade on 8-9 October.