Potential Areas of the V 4 to Improve Its Position in the European Innovation Ecosystem

The contribution is dedicated to the identification of areas within the indicators of the European Innovation Scoreboard at the level of the V 4 countries with the aim of pointing out the potential for increasing the innovation level. The V 4 countries have long been unremarkable in terms of significant progress in the innovation ecosystem. The strengths and weaknesses of each country will be summarized and the output will be a proposal of areas that need to be focused on in order for the given country to produce higher innovation performance.