Competitiveness / Technology, R&D and Innovation
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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ITU: Czech Republic ranks 32nd globally, 21nd in Europe in ICT development
The 2016 edition of the Measuring the Information Society Report by ITU features key ICT data and benchmarking tools to measure the information society, including the ICT Development Index (IDI). The IDI 2016 captures the level of ICT developments in 175 economies worldwide and compares progress since the year 2014. The Czech Republic ranks 32nd globally, 21nd in Europe.
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World Bank blogs: Where do the world’s talents immigrate to?
“We’re the nation that just had six of our scientists and researchers win Nobel Prizes — and every one of them was an immigrant,” U.S. President Barack Obama recently said after the Nobel Prize winners were announced.
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Eurostat: More than half of Czech women with university education employed in science and technology work in services, more than third in manufacturing
In the Czech Republic, 30.2% of women aged 25-64 with a university-level education and employed as professionals and technicians in science and technology are employed in the manufacturing sector and 54.1% of them are employed in the services sector, recently published Eurostat data show.
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