EP 28: Dragan Kostić - A Quarter Century of Experience

11/19/21 • 23 min

In this Geoeconomics Podcast episode, Aleksa Burmazovic talks with Dragan Kostić, the long-serving CEO of Pirot Free Zone, one of the top zones in Europe, who is also on the directors' board of the World Free Zones Organization. He is also the president of the Pirot Chamber of Commerce and a veteran of the zone space.

See the Open Zone Map:

https://www.openzonemap.com/

FDI Awards 2018:

https://www.fdiintelligence.com/article/73024

Belgrade Free Zone:

http://www.szb.co.rs/

Apatin Free Zone:

http://www.freezoneapatin.com/

Yugoslavian Free Zones:

https://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?artid=1820-31590602217K

Shannon Free Zone:

https://www.shannonchamber.ie/about/about-shannon/shannon-for-business/shannon-free-zone/

Lodz SEZ:

https://sse.lodz.pl/en/

Elixir Group:

https://www.elixirgroup.rs/en/

Chempark Prahovo:

https://icpp.rs/chemical-park/

WFZO:

https://www.worldfzo.org/#

WEPZA:

http://www.wepza.org/

FEMOZA:

https://femoza.org/

AZFA:

https://www.asociacionzonasfrancas.org/es/

AEZO:

https://www.africaeconomiczones.com/

GASEZ:

https://worldinvestmentforum.unctad.org/session/launching-luncheon-of-global-alliance-of-sezs-gasezs-in-partnership-with-regional-and-global-associations-of-sezs/

Yandex & Self Driving Cars:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/russian-tech-firm-yandex-test-self-driving-taxis-moscow-this-year-2021-09-08/

Tesla Free Zone Gigafactory:

https://electrek.co/2018/05/14/tesla-new-company-shanghai-free-trade-zone-chinese-gigafactory/

Bob Haywood:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-haywood-99291213/

Juan Torrents:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-torrents-381828a7/?originalSubdomain=ch

Aleksandar Simonovic:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandar-simonovic-74947847/?originalSubdomain=rs

Mohammed Alzarooni:

https://www.worldfzo.org/About-Us/Board-of-directors/id/330/dr-mohammed-alzarooni

Samir Hamrouni:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-samir-hamrouni-4a696413/

This podcast was produced by the Adrianople Group. The Adrianople Group is a business intelligence firm that focuses on special economic zones, venture capital, private equity, and geoeconomics.

Take a look at our free and open-source map of special economic zones:

https://www.openzonemap.com/

https://www.adrianoplegroup.com/

See the Open Zone Map:

https://www.openzonemap.com/

FDI Awards 2018:

https://www.fdiintelligence.com/article/73024

Belgrade Free Zone:

http://www.szb.co.rs/

Apatin Free Zone:

http://www.freezoneapatin.com/

Yugoslavian Free Zones:

https://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?artid=1820-31590602217K

Shannon Free Zone:

https://www.shannonchamber.ie/about/about-shannon/shannon-for-business/shannon-free-zone/

Lodz SEZ:

https://sse.lodz.pl/en/

Elixir Group:

https://www.elixirgroup.rs/en/

Chempark Prahovo:

https://icpp.rs/chemical-park/

WFZO:

https://www.worldfzo.org/#

WEPZA:

http://www.wepza.org/

FEMOZA:

https://femoza.org/

AZFA:

https://www.asociacionzonasfrancas.org/es/

AEZO:

https://www.africaeconomiczones.com/

GASEZ:

https://worldinvestmentforum.unctad.org/session/launching-luncheon-of-global-alliance-of-sezs-gasezs-in-partnership-with-regional-and-global-associations-of-sezs/

Yandex & Self Driving Cars:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/russian-tech-firm-yandex-test-self-driving-taxis-moscow-this-year-2021-09-08/

Tesla Free Zone Gigafactory:

https://electrek.co/2018/05/14/tesla-new-company-shanghai-free-trade-zone-chinese-gigafactory/

Bob Haywood:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-haywood-99291213/

Juan Torrents:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-torrents-381828a7/?originalSubdomain=ch

Aleksandar Simonovic:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandar-simonovic-74947847/?originalSubdomain=rs

Mohammed Alzarooni:

https://www.worldfzo.org/About-Us/Board-of-directors/id/330/dr-mohammed-alzarooni

Samir Hamrouni:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-samir-hamrouni-4a696413/

This podcast was produced by the Adrianople Group. The Adrianople Group is a business intelligence firm that focuses on special economic zones, venture capital, private equity, and geoeconomics.

Take a look at our free and open-source map of special economic zones:

https://www.openzonemap.com/

https://www.adrianoplegroup.com/

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EP 27: Alex Wellman - E-Estonia and Digital Governance

In this Geoeconomics Podcast episode, Aleksa Burmazovic talks with Alex Wellman, the marketing and communications leader for Estonia's E-residency program. The discussion goes into how long e-governance has been around, what it's doing and where it will take us in the next 20 years.

See the Open Zone Map:

https://www.openzonemap.com/

Alex's linkedin:

https://www.openzonemap.com/

Alex's Twitter:

https://twitter.com/WellmanAlex

Estonia's E-governance:

https://e-estonia.com/

Digital Testbed:

https://e-estonia.com/testbed/

X-Road:

https://x-road.global/

Nordic Institute for Interoperability:

https://www.niis.org/

Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose":

https://www.amazon.com/Free-Choose-Statement-Milton-Friedman/dp/0156334607

The Tax Foundation and Estonia:

https://taxfoundation.org/country/estonia/

Luxembourg Data Embassy:

https://digital-luxembourg.public.lu/initiatives/data-embassy

Remote work in UAE's Free Zones:

https://blog.dmcc.ae/covid19-uae-free-zone-labour-regulations-update

eIDAS Framework:

https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/content/eidas-regulation-regulation-eu-ndeg9102014.html

Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Sorcerer":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer

Estonia's e-Residency White Paper 2.0:

https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/ereswhitepaper/e-Residency+2.0+white+paper+English.pdf

This podcast was produced by the Adrianople Group. The Adrianople Group is a business intelligence firm that focuses on special economic zones, venture capital, private equity, and geoeconomics.

Take a look at our free and open-source map of special economic zones:

https://www.openzonemap.com/

https://www.adrianoplegroup.com/

https://twitter.com/geoeconomicspod

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EP 29: Raj Kapoor - Blockchain and the Indian Angle

In this Geoeconomics Podcast episode, Kovid Bhaduri talks with Raj Kapoor, the founder and CEO of the India Blockchain Alliance. The discussion goes over emerging trends in blockchain in the governance, start-up, and education space, and covers the present and future of blockchain in India .

India Blockchain Alliance:

https://indiablockchainalliance.org/

Raj Kapoor:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/indblock/

Fint:

https://fint.money/

Klasp:

https://klasp.network/

Procial:

https://procial.network/

Floyx:

https://www.floyx.com/

Tassets:

https://tassets.in/

Truscholar:

https://www.truscholar.io/

Hosted by:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kovid-bhaduri-1097591b7/

This podcast was produced by the Adrianople Group. The Adrianople Group is a business intelligence firm that focuses on special economic zones, venture capital, private equity, and geoeconomics.

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https://www.adrianoplegroup.com/

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