Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ITALY

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 44 41 44 42 40 46 56 57 58 60 32 28 23 22 25

Talent

Scientific concentration Training & education

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration Total expenditure on R&D (%) Total R&D personnel per capita

Rank

Rank

Rank

Educational assessment PISA - Math 30 w

Employee training

53 45 52

26 24 37 14 48 11 9

w International experience

Total public expenditure on education

51

48 w 37 w

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

50 u 34 u

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

46 34

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

48

u

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 42 41 44 48 42 53 49 53 54 48 42 44 46 43 44

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business

42 56 19 46 41 25

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

37 44 50 50 44 15

45 47 25 38 43 47

w Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 27 36 35 42 36 30 32 31 23 19 35 32 34 39 38

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

35

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

29

34 43 39 33

28 u

6

Public-private partnerships

42 49 41

Agility of companies

37 50 34

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics Knowledge transfer Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Attitudes toward globalization

u

5

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IMD WORLD DI G I TAL COMPET I T I VENESS RANK ING 2021