Prof. Simon Stockley of Cambridge University praised Katowice in an interview with "Financial Times". According to a British scholar, the capital of the Silesian Voivodeship achieved a "great transformational success" from the fossil fuels manufacture to the IT and banking industry.
"Financial Times" in an article published on Tuesday stated that Katowice have undergone a transformation "from the declining fossil fuel industry" and "try to transform into the centre of banking, IT and gaming companies". The British diary compared the capital of the Silesian Voivodeship to, among others, Aberdeen in Scotland or Gelsenkirchen Germany, where economical and social change has besides taken place.
- I'm sorry. Katowice is Polish Pittsburgh: an example of a successful transformation from coal to fresh industries and much higher quality of life - he said Prof. Marcin Piatkowski, economist with Leon Kozminski Academy, referring to the American city where the steel manufacture erstwhile dominated.
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"FT" mentioned that today only 1 of the 7 Katowice hard coal mines remains active. As an example of changes taking place in the city, the conversion of mining and industrial buildings into buying malls, museum, performance hall and residential-office skyscraper complex were listed.
"In the latest phase of revival after coal mining, Katowice started a task of value EUR 233 million, aimed at transforming a hundred-year-old brick buildings of an abandoned coal mine into a centre of gaming and technology development, financed by both urban and EU resources" - reads the British newspaper.
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In conversation with the diary Professor Simon Stockley from Cambridge University, co-founder of a consortium supporting entrepreneurship in Silesia, pointed out that many another countries in Europe have tried to repeat their success Silicon ValleyThey failed. - You can build all the wonderful centres and incubators of entrepreneurship, but if you do not find them talented entrepreneurs and innovatorsIt'll be complete. Waste of money - he said.
In his opinion Katowice "seems to have a talent reserve" and have already achieved "great transformational success", although he pointed out that it is uncertain whether the latest task will attract many highly qualified workers from outside Poland.
"Financial Times" besides pointed out that the capital of Silesia "is politically different due to the fact that City presidents have long been elected here, who are not associated with any of the 2 major national partieswhich form the country's deep polarization".
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