Slovakia is the 36th most innovative country in the world

Switzerland is the leader in the field of innovation

Switzerland, leader of innovation every year since 2011. The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and the United States are among the other destinations , but Hong Kong, Singapore and Ireland

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Slovakia stands 36th among the moderate innovators whose innovation performances are at the level of expectations.

Innovation in Slovakia, according to SAPIE, focuses primarily on the field of information and communication technologies (ICT), because this area is the most efficient in terms of capital demand

In 2016, venture capital funds mainly invested in ICT-based companies. 63.3% of total funds invested in start-ups in Slovakia were in these companies, the largest share compared to neighboring countries

We are also in biomedicine

According to the ranking GII, Slovakia is lagging behind like biomedicine, robotics or clean technologies (proecologically oriented technologies).

Investing in capital-intensive industries that can deliver breakthrough innovations may, according to SAPIE, help Slovakia cope with automation and robotization. The Slovak economy by GII strongly relies on the automotive industry and threatens automation

Automation and robotics will become a reality

"According to the I & # 39; OECD study, nearly a third of jobs in Slovakia are high As the main reason for the OECD, there is too much focus on the auto industry. and robotics will become a reality in the coming years for the Slovak economy, which should already respond flexibly to changes in the labor market that will bring technological breakthroughs, "said SAPIE in a report

. increase the number of jobs in industrial production that are not routine – that is, positions requiring relatively complex tasks that can not be classified in a systematic order or code

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"Non-routine jobs are more difficult to replace with machines and are therefore more resistant to automation. creative work such as programming or recurring decisions in the workload.The proportion of these non-routine posts represents only about 18% of our industrial output, at least in all OECD countries " , added the Slovak Alliance for the Innovative Economy to the results of the GII