TSM - The Cluj IT History (1957-2012)

Marius Mornea - Software Engineer and Mintaka Research founder

It started simple, with a single question, which in the following days gave birth to whole series of questions, that stirred, not only my curiosity, but that of everybody I tested the new idea on. The initial question was voiced by Răzvan Florian, and it emerged in the following context: we were sitting next to each other at a regioNet meeting named “Clusters and networks – Engines of development for the growth of competitiveness and innovation capacity”. Right after the status update on the Cluj IT Cluster (30 companies, totaling 3500 employees and a 8 million Euro turnover), came professor Sergiu Nedevschi turn.