Cancellor Angela Merkel visited on August, 25, 2016, the Czech Republic at the invitation of the Czech Premier Bohuslav Sobotka. One of the topics of their discussion were also modern technologies, expecially the industrial digitalization. After their meeting at the Office of the Government, Chancellor participate in a debate about Czech-German cooperation in the field of research and development, which was attended by representatives of enterprises and research facilities and where dshe met her former colleagues Professor Rudolf Zahradník and Zdeněk Havlas from the Institute of organic chemistry and biochemistry of the CAS., lsd., and Autor je podepsaný šifrou "lsd".