Digital Ranking 2022

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES BELGIUM

u Overall top strengths v r ll T Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses w Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 17 18 20 20 17 30 26 31 31 30 29 24 21 20 19

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

22 08 23 38 57 22

14 12 20 31 36 13

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

05 12 40 44 20 34 18

u

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

u

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

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

w

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 17 22 19 18 17 23 25 21 20 23 33 26 29 37 39

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

40 19 21 20 15 43

27 39 07 21 13 14

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

36 39 59 18 24 29

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile Broadband subscribers

Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

w

u 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 (%)

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 19 23 24 22 28 21 33 35 38 27 21 23 26 26 22

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

33 25 29 31 16

55 12 11 43 39

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

36 15 35 13 43 10

w E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

u Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

w

Attitudes toward globalization

-

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

u

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