摘要:This paper discusses services as economic activities, evaluates their impact on competitiveness and shows the areas in which services have a potential to develop and extend the competitiveness of other sectors and the national economy as a whole. The results of the survey show how to compare the competitiveness of economies in Central Europe and how to measure the level of service quality for entreprenuers. Another aim appears to assess the relationship between quality and competitiveness of selected services in selected transition economies – Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Poland.