Digital Ranking 2022

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SLOVAK REPUBLIC

u Overall top strengths v r ll T Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses w Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 56 54 53 52 44 47 52 52 49 43 42 36 38 40 39

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

46 39 39 24 41 40

30 40 56 46 35 54

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

42 33 22 41 42 28 32

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

u

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

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 60 58 61 60 58 46 43 47 42 58 34 37 38 39 40

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

58 57 48 31 56 26

48 34 62 59 57 56

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

38 35 38 31 40 42

w

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

w 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 51 42 50 49 50 58 61 62 60 50 45 40 44 40 39

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

56 28 28 42 60 30

52 32 33 48 60

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

42 47 43 26 54 19

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

u

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

w

w Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

u

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