| GridwiseTech among the top five innovators of the "Silicon Valley of Poland" |
| Monday, 25 September 2006 | |
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GridwiseTech, the company with global presence and customers in the USA, Europe and Japan is headquartered in Krakow, Poland. The town is ideal location for innovative businesses: being the country’s center of science and skilled engineering force, it hubbs a dozen of universities. Over the past years, Krakow saw an exponential influx of foreign IT investors, including giants such as IBM, Sabre and Motorola.
In the early 2006, and Krakow‘s Center of Technology Transfer together with the Marshal Office of Malopolska (administrative unit of Krakow metropolitan area) established the annual award for the most innovative enterprise. In September 2006, the first five companies were distinguished. Among them, GridwiseTech was named the Innovator of Malopolska. „This distinction is a great honour for us, considering that we were ranked top innovator in the region of fierce competition where 3,000 IT businesses are registered.“ said Pawel Plaszczak in the interview with the local radio station. As the only competitor, GridwiseTech also received special distinction for deploying scientific results in commercial environment. GridwiseTech, the independent expert in Grid technologies is indeed unique in the Krakow metropolitan area. Worldwide, the company is known as the only vendor-neutral specialist consulting global corporation on their move to cutting-edge Grid architectures. Locally in Krakow, GridwiseTech is recognized as the driving force behind the nonprofit it.wkrakowie.org that brings together the local IT community, fostering cooperation, innovation and the societal values. |