Digital Ranking 2022

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IRELAND

u Overall top strengths v r ll T Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses w Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 14 10 19 18 19 34 30 35 32 31 24 29 25 26 24

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

15 58 09 48 27 09

20 13 09 38 34 20

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

35 21 26 36 17 10 30

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

w

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

u Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

Management of cities

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants

u

Net flow of international students

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 20 13 14 19 22 53 49 45 35 44 13 24 30 34 38

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

55 20 31 26 14 60

12 47 24 18 11 20

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

50 45 36 20 36 12

w

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 (%)

w

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 10 03 12 12 11 03 09 09 14 18 24 20 25 19 38

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

06 42 06 18 13 39

27 09 16 29 10

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

25 29 37 19 56 51

u

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

u 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

w

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