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Challenges for the Czech Republic's Competitive Performance in the Enlarged EU

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  • Anna Kadeřábková

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The new EU-entrants face double challenge on the Lisbon road to knowledge-based competitiveness. On the one hand, higher expenditure is required to improve the quality of research and education input and infrastructure, on the other hand, the innovation system changes are necessary to increase efficiency of expenditures. The example of the Czech Republic within EU-25, as to the export performance, productivity and R&D intensity of the so-called hi-tech activities, presents a more detailed analysis of competitive advantage sources and challenges in the less developed EU members. The analysis emphasizes the criterion of (in)completeness of the multinational value chain, which continues to consist mainly of segments with lower quality intensity (assembly operations) in these countries. This aspect plays a crucial role in international comparison of competitiveness within EU-25, and in assessment of success and political support of transition to knowledge-based economy.

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  • Anna Kadeřábková, 2006. "Challenges for the Czech Republic's Competitive Performance in the Enlarged EU," Prague Economic Papers, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2006(1), pages 63-77.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpep:v:2006:y:2006:i:1:id:277:p:63-77
    DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.277
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    Keywords

    competitiveness; transition countries; technology catch-up;
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    JEL classification:

    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries

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