Digital Ranking 2022

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES LATVIA

u Overall top strengths v r ll T Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses w Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 28 32 27 24 25 28 27 27 30 28 46 47 49 51 52

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

23 12 30 17 47 23

23 20 38 34 27 21

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

47 37 05 55 40 38 47

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

u

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

u

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

w

Management of cities

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

Women with degrees

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

Net flow of international students

TECHNOLOGY

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 31 30 37 34 36 36 35 50 46 39 26 14 13 18 22

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

29 33 41 35 24 51

15 14 56 32 43 35

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

23 21 17 28 32 21

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile Broadband subscribers

Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

w Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

w

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 52 52 51 51 44 41 47 45 48 31 37 44 37 37 23

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

39 52 44 24 31 12

58 36 28 14 46

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

43 35 30 40 11 02

w E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

w

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

u

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

u

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