CEE: frontier tech readiness index by country 2022

Poland was the Central and Eastern (CEE) country most prepared for the adoption and development of frontier technologies in 2022, with an index score of 0.77, followed by Slovenia, Estonia, and Czechia. The lowest scores were recorded in Albania and Moldova. None of the countries in the region were found to have a low level of readiness. The frontier technologies analyzed included industry 4.0 solutions, such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain; green technologies like solar photovoltaics and electric vehicles; nanotechnology; and gene editing.

Readiness for frontier technologies index in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in 2022, by country

Characteristic	High	Upper-middle	Lower-middle
Poland	0.77	-	-
Slovenia	0.77	-	-
Estonia	0.77	-	-
Czechia	0.77	-	-
Russia	0.76	-	-
Hungary	0.74	-	-
Latvia	0.72	-	-
Slovakia	0.72	-	-
Lithuania	-	0.7	-
Croatia	-	0.68	-
Bulgaria	-	0.67	-
Romania	-	0.66	-
Serbia	-	0.64	-
Belarus	-	0.61	-
Ukraine	-	0.59	-
Montenegro	-	0.58	-
North Macedonia	-	0.53	-
Bosnia and Herzegovina	-	0.51	-
Moldova	-	-	0.5
Albania	-	-	0.46

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Release date

March 2023

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Region

CEE

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

The source specified the following methodology: "The Frontier Technology Index is calculated following the methodology presented in the Technology and Innovation Report 2021. The index yielded results for 166 economies on a scale of 0 to 1. Based on their rankings, countries are placed within one of four 25-percentile score groups: low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high."

None of the countries in the region were placed in the low score group.

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