Digital Ranking 2022

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ITALY

u Overall top strengths v r ll T Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses w Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 41 44 42 40 43 56 57 58 60 58 28 23 22 25 23

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

48 46 52 47 31 50

29 50 46 39 49 35

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

27 25 34 07 16 48 11

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

w International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

w

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

u

Management of cities

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

w Digital/Technological skills

Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants Robots in Education and R&D

w

Net flow of international students

u

TECHNOLOGY

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 41 44 48 42 38 49 53 54 48 41 44 46 43 44 44

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

41 39 49 48 43 13

41 55 08 44 41 24

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

43 41 23 43 43 47

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile Broadband subscribers

w Enforcing contracts u Immigration laws

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

u

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 36 35 42 36 32 32 31 23 19 30 32 34 39 38 40

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

30 06 38 47 36 28

34 29 42 17 36

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

33 49 40 33 47 34

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

u

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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