Technological competitiveness of manufacturing of the Visegrad Group countries: main trends in 2011–2021

The aim of the article is to present the results of the analysis regarding the level of technological competitiveness of manufacturing in the V4 countries on the background of the results achieved by the EU during the research period 2011-2021. Even though the issue of competitiveness is widely discussed in the literature, there is still a large research gap regarding new determinants resulting from the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution. This article is an attempt to at least partially fill this gap. The concept of technological competitiveness and its dimensions were defined, which was the starting point for assessing the international competitive position of manufacturing in the V4 economies. Development of manufacturing competitiveness index was conducted based on the principal components analysis method