Digital Ranking 2022

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES BULGARIA

u Overall top strengths v r ll T Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses w Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 53 50 48 54 56 42 46 50 53 52 33 37 42 46 40

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

59 48 48 13 48 35

42 56 61 51 26 52

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

43 35 11 45 37 13 48

w

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

u

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

Digital/Technological skills

Women with degrees

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

u

Net flow of international students

TECHNOLOGY

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 52 46 55 55 52 50 42 48 53 52 36 44 39 42 46

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

43 47 52 42 50 37

46 31 58 53 53 55

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

35 37 21 55 38 39

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile Broadband subscribers

Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

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 48 43 41 45 39 59 56 40 61 56 54 47 47 53 49

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

60 44 62 54 57 06

22 47 45 23 50

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

39 51 53 51 59 20

w

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

w

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

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