National indicators of technology-based competitiveness: selected results from 1996

Summary form only given. “High-tech indicators” work at Georgia Tech (USA), begun in 1987, has proceeded through three developmental phases (1988, 1991, 1993), and “graduated“ in 1996 from development to periodic production of the indicator series. This paper presents some selected results obtained during the most recent phase of indicator research; emphasis is placed on changes in indicators for particular countries and groups of countries (e.g., the Pacific Rim) since 1993 and the incorporation of several additional countries in the series. Analysis focuses on two general areas: (1) indicators of the future competitiveness of nations (approximately 15 year time horizon); and (2) current ranking of nations on measures of competitiveness in high technology industries, emphasis on high technology production, and rate of change in competitiveness