Capability agenda
Generated 2026-10-17
The frame includes 125 countries. Each dimension is scored from 0 to 100, with no overall ranking, and each score shows its confidence beside it. Read the known limits of the data before you quote a score.
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| Dimension | Score | Confidence | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anticipation | 67.3 | 0.46 | +0.9 over 10 years using 2 indicators |
| Agency | 55.1 | 0.49 | no trend |
| Coordination | 80.2 | 0.45 | no trend |
| Trust | 82.7 | 0.34 | no trend |
| Learning | 76.3 | 0.55 | no trend |
| Experimentation | 27.5 | 0.41 | -15.9 over 10 years using 3 indicators |
| Adaptability | 75.5 | 0.62 | no trend |
| Building | 53.7 | 0.57 | -0.6 over 10 years using 3 indicators |
| Shared Purpose | 72.1 | 0.30 | -1.9 over 10 years using 2 indicators |
Score
Confidence
The score rests on one or two indicators. Do not quote it on its own.
A minority of indicators, or evidence old enough to have moved. Read with care.
Enough evidence to compare countries, with known holes.
Most indicators observed, recent, from official or intergovernmental sources.
Select a dimension to see how Czechia’s comparable evidence has moved over time. The vertical scale is the current comparison frame, from 0 to 100.
Dimension
Period
Shared Purpose 1996 → 2026: 71.6 to 72.1 (+0.5) over 30 years using 2 indicators
Historical values use today’s frame from 0 to 100 and a matched basket of indicators. They show movement in the available evidence, not an overall development score. Dated agenda items appear on a separate timeline and do not change the score. A missing line means the evidence does not support a comparable trend for that dimension.
The evidence is too thin to manage these dimensions confidently.
To what extent can people imagine themselves as participants in a common project?
Uses 2 observed indicators.
Missing indicators: Sense of national belonging, Volunteering, Political polarisation.
Rejected datasets: Voice and accountability.
How much cooperation is possible beyond immediate personal networks?
Uses 3 observed indicators.
Missing indicators: Trust in public institutions, Court case clearance rate.
Rejected datasets: Rule of law, Control of corruption, Time to enforce a contract, Intentional homicide rate.
How easily can new approaches be attempted, tested, abandoned, and improved?
Uses 4 observed indicators.
Missing indicators: Venture deals, Firms through regulatory sandboxes, University spinouts.
Rejected datasets: Business share of R&D.
These dimensions score at least 50 with usable evidence.
| Dimension | Score | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Coordination | 80.2 | 0.45 |
| Learning | 76.3 | 0.55 |
| Adaptability | 75.5 | 0.62 |
| Anticipation | 67.3 | 0.46 |
| Agency | 55.1 | 0.49 |
| Building | 53.7 | 0.57 |
18 requested indicators have no comparable dataset, and each one lowers confidence. A gap can become an indicator when a comparable series covers at least two countries.
| Dimension | Missing indicator | What it asks |
|---|---|---|
| Anticipation | Government foresight capacity | Existence, mandate and continuity of a national strategic foresight function. |
| Anticipation | Long-horizon research commitments | New competitively awarded public research grants that run for five years or longer, as a share of all new competitive public research grants awarded in the year. |
| Agency | Adults doing digital tasks | Share of adults who carried out a named digital task in the last three months, such as sending a message with an attached file, moving a file between devices or using a spreadsheet formula, counted one task at a time and never as a skill level. |
| Coordination | University-industry collaboration | Intensity of research collaboration between universities and firms. |
| Coordination | Public-private collaboration | Frequency and scale of joint public-private delivery of national objectives. |
| Trust | Trust in public institutions | Confidence in national government, courts and civil service. |
| Trust | Court case clearance rate | Civil and commercial cases resolved in a year as a share of cases filed in the same year. |
| Learning | Adult learning participation | Share of adults in formal or non-formal education and training in the last 12 months. |
| Experimentation | Venture deals | First venture capital rounds closed by companies based in the country in the year, per million people, counted by deal and never by amount. |
| Experimentation | Firms through regulatory sandboxes | Firms admitted to, and firms completing, a regulatory sandbox or controlled trial regime in the year, per million people, summed across every regulator in the country. |
| Experimentation | University spinouts | Companies formed to commercialise university research, per million people. |
| Adaptability | Disaster preparedness and recovery | Demonstrated capacity to prepare for and recover from major shocks. |
| Adaptability | Institutional responsiveness | Speed at which rules and public programmes are changed in response to new conditions. |
| Building | Large project delivery | Cost and schedule performance of major public infrastructure projects. |
| Building | Firm scale-up rate | Share of young firms reaching significant employment or turnover thresholds. |
| Shared Purpose | Sense of national belonging | Reported identification with and attachment to the national community, as distinct from pride in the nation. |
| Shared Purpose | Volunteering | Share of adults who volunteered time to an organisation in the last month. |
| Shared Purpose | Political polarisation | Degree to which political differences run along a single hostile divide. |
Documented deliveries linked to missing indicators. They do not affect scores or confidence.
The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic funded 34 competence centres under its Centra kompetence programme from 2012, joining 334 participants, 115 research organisations, 118 SMEs and 101 large firms, against a planned 31 centres and 248 participants.
The Czech Ministry of Transport procured the completion of the D4 motorway between Příbram and Písek as the country's first transport public-private partnership, and the concessionaire Via Salis opened 32 km of new motorway and 16 km of modernised sections on 17 December 2024 after 43 months of construction, as the ministry had announced in June 2021, with the state paying an availability payment until 2049.
The Czech government approved the Antivirus employment support programme on 31 March 2020, with costs eligible from 12 March, and the Labour Office paid CZK 51.2 billion through it from 2020 to 2022 to almost 71,000 employers for 1.2 million employees.
The Czech Supreme Audit Office reported in June 2026 that 41 motorway sections totalling more than 300 km were opened to traffic between 2020 and 2024, after years with almost none (no kilometre in 2014, four in 2018), but that the average cost the state paid per kilometre of motorway opened rose from nearly CZK 275 million in 2020 to CZK 505 million in 2024, an increase of nearly 84 percent.
Czechia's Road and Motorway Directorate (ŘSD) rebuilt 160.8 km of the D1 motorway between Mirošovice and Kývalka in 20 sections from April 2013, reopening the last sections in October 2021, three years later than the 2012 schedule, with costs projected at CZK 29.844 billion including the Šmejkalka bridge against CZK 28.208 billion planned.
The Ministry of Agriculture ran flood prevention programme 129 260 from 2014, funding polders, dike works and protective walls through the state river basin enterprises and municipalities, and its final evaluation reported 27 million cubic metres of new retention volume and about 17,491 metres of protective dikes and walls, against an original retention target of 123 million cubic metres.
Czech civil protection built permanent shelters from about the 1950s, reached its largest shelter stock in 1995 with places for about 10 percent of the population, and by 2026 the Fire Rescue Service counted just under 1,600 permanent shelters with capacity for about 310,000 people.
Czech Labour Office retraining reached almost 16,500 jobseekers and job applicants in 2023, 14,300 of them in courses they chose themselves, up from about 3,000 chosen retraining courses in 2018, according to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
Fill a gap, file evidence or challenge an indicator at github.com/envisioning/national-capability-benchmark. The docs explain the method and decisions.