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The countries of this cluster are at the bottom half of National Intellectual Capital Indices for 40 Countries (NICI40), with Czech Republic and Hungary in possession of a higher level of national intellectual capital. Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, South Africa, and Turkey ranked number 27, 23, 33, 31, and 34, respectively. In comparing each individual country’s overall IC ranking, Hungary ranked better in human capital and market capital (both ranked #19), Poland is particularly weak in market capital and process capital (ranked #39 and #35, respectively), and Turkey is comparatively better in market capital (ranked #27).
Human capital | Market capital | Process capital | Renewal capital | Financial capital | Overall IC (NICI40) | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | 5.26 | 5.02 | 4.02 | 2.04 | 8.76 | 25.10 | ||||||
SD | 0.78 | 0.66 | 0.61 | 0.42 | 0.31 | 2.29 | ||||||
Country | Score | Ranking | Score | Ranking | Score | Ranking | Score | Ranking | Score | Ranking | Score | Ranking |
Czech Republic | 5.34 | 29 | 5.56 | 22 | 4.51 | 28 | 2.57 | 24 | 9.16 | 26 | 27.15 | 27 |
Hungary | 6.33 | 19 | 5.68 | 19 | 4.71 | 27 | 2.34 | 26 | 8.94 | 27 | 27.99 | 23 |
Poland | 5.61 | 26 | 4.04 | 39 | 3.23 | 35 | 1.95 | 30 | 8.77 | 28 | 23.59 | 33 |
South Africa | 4.71 | 36 | 4.84 | 31 | 4.02 | 30 | 1.84 | 32 | 8.37 | 36 | 23.79 | 31 |
Turkey | 4.33 | 38 | 4.98 | 27 | 3.61 | 32 | 1.51 | 36 | 8.57 | 33 | 22.99 | 34 |
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Lin, C.YY., Edvinsson, L. (2011). National Intellectual Capital of Four East Central European Countries and South Africa (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, South Africa, Turkey). In: National Intellectual Capital. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7377-1_8
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