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Since May 2004 is the Slovak Republic a member of the EU, thus the development of its industry has to be shaped by trends of these of EU. To remove the existing gap between SR and the most developed EU countries the presence of a strong and competitive manufacturing sector is crucial. The main aspiration of the submitted paper, which was supported by Science and Technology Assistance Agency under the contract No. APVT-51-023602 is to compare the Slovak industry, in particular it's manufacturing defined as NACE 15 - 36 industries with selected 8 small EU economies - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands and Sweden according to transition to the information society.