Key Insights:
- Specialist skills consistently rank as the most needed skill across all years, showing slight decline from 51.0% in 2010 to 45.1% in 2020.
- Customer handling shows significant decline, dropping from 46.1% in 2010 to 35.5% in 2020.
- Team work remains relatively stable, fluctuating between 30.7% and 33.2% across the period.
- Management skills show slight decline from 23.2% in 2010 to 17.4% in 2020, with lowest point in 2015 at 17.3%.
- Problem solving shows decline from 20.4% in 2010 to 12.3% in 2015, then recovery to 14.8% in 2020.
- Foreign language skills show consistent decline in perceived importance (16.1% → 11.6% → 9.2%).
- Other skills show dramatic increase from 3.4% in 2010 to 11.9% in 2020.
Chart Description:
Chart Type: Multi-line chart showing trends over time
Main Color: #18baa8 (primary), with complementary colors for different skill categories
Years Displayed: 2010, 2015, 2020
Data Source: This chart displays the percentage of enterprises across all economic sectors (TOTAL) that reported needing specific skills for development. Each line represents a different skill category, showing how demand has changed over the decade.
Data-Level: PL Source: Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) - Dataset: trng_cvt_10n2 - Main skills needed for the development of the enterprise by type of skill and NACE Rev. 2 activity
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Project manager:
Franziska Görmar
IfL - Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany
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This project is supported by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme with co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund.
Find more information about the x-Inno Radar project on the Interreg CE projectwebsite.
x-Inno Radar is a project of:
Creative Region Linz & Upper Austria Gmbh,
The Regional Chamber of Commerce of the Karlovy Vary Region,
Padova Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture,
Creative Industry Košice, n. o.,
BSC, Business support centre, ltd., Kranj,
Regional Development Agency in Bielsko-Biała,
Stebo Competence Centre Community Developmentm,
Association of Cultural and Creative Industries Chemnitz and Region (Creative Chemnitz),
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography – Germany,
Otelo Cooperative
