hindawi and thinslices join hands for open source product development in iasi

We’re not fortune tellers, we don’t know what the future holds.
However, we’d like to share our vision of what Iasi will become.

What got us here won’t get us there

We know it, you know it, everyone knows it: an outsourcing services culture has dominated the IT ecosystem in Iasi since the very beginning. Outsourcing has been immensely helpful for both economic and skills development across the community. Our own companies, Hindawi and Thinslices, have thrived by taking advantage of this opportunity.



We are now seeing the first great Romanian product companies, such as UIPath–the first Romanian Unicorn–and Gecad, become world leaders.


We already have a few amazing companies developing intellectual property in Iasi–some well established like Gemini Cad Systems, some just starting up like Nifty Learning. We are excited to keep tracking their success.

Outsourcing has been great to Iasi and we hope more good days are still to come. But Iasi needs to write a new chapter in its story in order to realise its full potential.

In Bucharest, it’s happening already. In Cluj, it’s happening already. It’s time for Iasi to start moving.

What the future could look like for Iasi


Over the next few years, we would like to create an IT environment in Iasi where the overwhelming majority of people are working at product companies.


For product development to reach the same level of expertise we have with Java, .NET and JavaScript, we need to grow all the other skills required by product companies: sales, marketing, business development, investor relations, customer success, design, and product management.


A product-focused approach will provide training in these skills to the IT community in Iasi, and, we hope, foster a new generation of startup companies and software entrepreneurs. That’s how Iasi will start creating its own intellectual property - Romanian intellectual property - and become a player on the global product market.

The launch of our product- focused team of teams in Iasi


Hindawi and Thinslices are celebrating the launch of our product-focused team of teams in Iasi on June 28 at Muzeul Unirii.


Come meet us there! After the press conference will follow a social gathering, a.k.a. party, at Acaju.

Thinslices’ mission

To bring 50 product companies to Iasi in the next 15 years and catalyze the transition from an economy-driven by outsourcing to one-driven by intellectual property. The first of those companies is Hindawi Limited, one of the world’s largest open access publishers of peer reviewed academic research.

Hindawi’s mission

To drive change in scholarly communications through greater openness. Hindawi firmly believes that science works best when research is open. We embody this notion through the publication of fully open access journals, working with other organizations to build community-owned open source infrastructure, and enabling partners to transition into an open access world. We place the researcher and the research community at the heart of everything we do and we strive to create a future where knowledge is open to all.

TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THE
RESEARCHERS THEMSELVES SAY:

Dress as if you were meeting the mayor because you will ;)

Collaborations like these are an important step for Iasi. Come meet us at the official launch on June 28 at Muzeul Unirii.



JUNE 28
MUZEUL UNIRII

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