Foreign students create economic value for the economy, enhance the society in which they study, and contribute to diversity and multiculturalism, and their stay can primarily help increase the qualified workforce that is lacking in Croatia. We have some advantages in their eyes, but much more needs to be done to ensure they stay and strengthen the Croatian economy. Attracting and retaining international students can help expand the qualified workforce. Open migration policies and labor markets, where students can remain in the host country after their studies, as well as high-quality higher education institutions, are key to success in attracting international students. How to attract and retain foreign students is written by Marta Premužak.
In almost thirty percent of Croatian companies, the value of their total assets is less than the amount of their liabilities, meaning they have negative capital. According to the calculations of Lider’s financial analyst and owner of Kontera Nikola Nikšić, this concerns 42,241 companies where, on average, nearly 94 thousand people were employed in 2021. Companies with negative capital are a pool in which, contrary to the logic of a healthy market, so-called zombie companies swim, those that the World Bank defines as chronically weak, unable to cover their interest costs for three consecutive years. About Zombie companies writes Manuela Tašler.
Although artificial intelligence has existed for years, and the technology it is based on has entered numerous spheres of industry, it seems that part of the public only understood how this concept works with the emergence of ChatGPT, a technology developed by Open AI. However, while some of these people are excited and believe that a revolution is coming that the world has never witnessed, others do not share this opinion, as they believe that this technology is not yet what it could or should be. In Croatia, however, there is a third group of people, those who are completely indifferent to the emergence of chatbots from which a machine speaks and do not think there is anything to discuss about it, at least not so enthusiastically. This opinion is shared by Croatian representatives in the Parliament, where a round table on artificial intelligence was recently held at the initiative of representative Marija Selak from the Most party. One of the expert participants in that event, Aco Momčilović, co-founder of the Global AI Ethics Institute, was most surprised that not a single parliamentary representative came to hear firsthand, from experts in the economy and academic community, what artificial intelligence is, how it is developing so rapidly, and what the consequences will be for society as a whole. All of this was discussed with Momčilović by Ksenija Puškarić.
