Pozycja konkurencyjna nowych państw członkowskich UE w handlu towarami zaawansowanymi technologicznie
The Competitive Position of New Member States of European Union in the Trade in Technologically Advanced Goods

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper was to assess the competitive position of ten new EU member states of Central Eastern Europe in the trade in high and medium-high technology goods in the period 1995–2011. The competitive position in the trade in such goods is considered as an indicator of the country’s innovativeness. The assessment of this position of individual countries of the group was based on several measures, such as: the share of high and medium-high technology products in exports, trade balance in such goods, export/import ratio, and index of revealed comparative advantages. These indicators have been calculated in terms of value added and, for a comparison, in terms of gross trade flows. The data was taken from World Input-Output Database (WIOD), which includes worldwide input-output tables for the analyzed period. The research has shown that the analyzed group of countries was quite differentiated as regards their competitiveness in trade in high and medium-high technology goods, which reflects the degree of innovativeness of their economies. In the analyzed period, the competitive position in the international trade of all the countries in the group was strengthened, but only four countries (Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia) have succeeded in reaching competitive advantages in trade in technologically advanced goods while the position of Poland in this ranking has been relatively weak.

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