DISPARITIES OF HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to identify disparities in the development of high-tech industries between twenty eight European Union countries in 2013, by building a selected synthetic measure and prioritize them according to the estimated values of these measures. Operationalization of the research takes into account a number of diagnostic variables describing the high-tech sector in the EU member states, along with the attempt to explain the determinants of their position in the created ranking. The study used a Hellwig’s synthetic measure of development, which is one of the reference methods of linear ordering.