The European Commission  (DG Growth) has asked Copenhagen Economics to identify the main drivers of FDI into the EU and construct an FDI Attractiveness Scoreboard that can be used to benchmark individual countries on their attractiveness. Foreign investors chose the Czech Republic due to relatively low wage costs, well-educated, English-speaking labour force, cultural similarities with Western Europe, good digital infrastructure and political stability, the report shows, but the country could improve its innovation capacity, among others.

Recently, the UN Scientific Advisory Board submitted a Summary Report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Among others, the report highlights the need to ensure a continuing flow of creative scientists. Countries should strongly promote education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics for all children beginning at an early age.

Czech students are increasingly internationally mobile, Czech teachers are generally older and paid less. As of 2015, 22% of 25-64 year-olds in the Czech Republic had attained tertiary education, which is lower than the OECD average of 35%. But compared with a full-time, full-year worker who has attained upper secondary education, tertiary educated Czechs in 2013 earned almost twice as much, or 92% more, recently published OECD Education at a Glance 2016 report says.

One in four public tenders in Czech regions was cancelled in the period 2013-2015, the reason often being that they were not attractive enough for companies, a recently study Public Procurement in Czech Regions published by EconLab, a research institute at the Charles University, says.