Competitiveness / Digital Agenda

This section feature research, opinion and progress reports on how the Czech Republic compares to other EU countries economically. It includes analysis of international rankings such as the WEF and World Bank.

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15th September 2015 / Competitiveness / Digital Agenda


Competitiveness: Radio Prague: Czech industry urged to prepare for fourth industrial revolution

...As Czech industry operates at near peak capacity, it’s tooling up again and will frequently be placing orders with German machine tool and other companies. Those German tool companies provide around 40 percent of Czech machine tool needs. And the Czech Republic is also a heavy hitter in the mac...
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19th July 2015 / Competitiveness / Digital Agenda


Competitiveness: OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015: Czech ICT sector produces ever greater value added

According to the 2015 OECD Digital Economy Outlook published on 15 July 2015, the share of ICT goods and services on total value added in the Czech Republic increased by 1.2 percentage points between 2001 and 2013 (Estonia and Slovenia +0.9 percentage points; other OECD countries faced a decrease,...
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14th July 2015 / Competitiveness / Digital Agenda


Competitiveness: EU's Digital Agenda: Czech Republic among slow performing countries

In 2014, digital public services was the dimension where performance was most fragmented. European countries performed most alike in connectivity and in use of internet. The Czech Republic ended up in the "low performance" cluster of countries, i.e. bellow the EU28 average...Read more. The Digita...
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Members of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic