Regions & Industrial Economy Writer, Czech Business Review
Martin Horák covers Czech regional economies, manufacturing and industrial investment outside the national headline numbers.
His research connects municipal and regional data with factory investment, labour-market conditions and infrastructure, keeping Prague, Brno, regional and national statistics on the correct geographic level.
Martin's work is built around geography and comparability. When a business story depends on place, he separates city, region and national data and checks whether employment, investment or industrial statistics actually describe the geography used in the headline. That discipline is central to his reporting on regional clusters and local business conditions.
He is also a regular fit for research pieces that connect labour availability, industrial capacity and company investment. Rather than treating a new plant or employer announcement as a standalone event, his work asks what the surrounding workforce, infrastructure and supplier base can support, and how the local result compares with other Czech regions.
GoodData was founded by Czech entrepreneur Roman Staněk in 2007 and became an early transatlantic cloud BI company. In 2026 it rebranded as GoodData.AI as analytics moves toward governed AI agents.
Ataccama grew out of Czech-founded Adastra into a global data management company, took a $150 million minority investment from Bain Capital and later strategic backing from Snowflake Ventures.
Czechia's semiconductor strategy targets power electronics, chip design and sophisticated production equipment rather than trying to recreate a leading-edge Asian foundry model.
CzechInvest says the country's semiconductor sector already includes about 80 companies and more than 11,000 specialists, making education and retraining a central bottleneck to expansion.
Brno combines chip design, semiconductor education and a world-class electron-microscopy industry, giving the city a role in the chip value chain that extends well beyond fabrication.
The ISIG Executive Summit is bringing semiconductor executives to Prague for three days focused on power electronics, AI, advanced manufacturing and Europe's chip strategy. The location matters as much as the agenda.
Czechia's semiconductor opportunity is spread across power devices, electronics, research, testing and an industrial customer base rather than one giant leading-edge fab.
Silicon carbide and gallium nitride sit at the intersection of electric vehicles, grids, renewable energy and industrial automation, making them unusually relevant to Czech manufacturing.
A practical 2026 Czech Blue Card guide covering the 1.5-times-average salary requirement, current annual threshold and employer obligations.
A practical guide to business bank accounts for Czech s.r.o. companies, including incorporation, share capital, payments, AML checks and operational reasons to keep company finances separate.
A practical employer guide to hiring EU and non-EU workers in Czechia in 2026, including employee cards, Blue Cards and JMHZ reporting from April 2026.
A researched history of Productboard from its 2014 founding by Hubert Palan and Daniel Hejl to a global product-management software company.
The history of Rohlik from its 2014 Prague launch to unicorn status, warehouse automation and expansion across European grocery markets.
A guide to Brno's technology and startup ecosystem, including software, cybersecurity, scientific instruments, universities and the role of JIC.
Czech regional GDP per capita data for 2024 show Prague far ahead of the national average, with major differences across the country's regions.