Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES LATVIA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 29 28 32 27 24 20 28 27 27 30 47 46 47 49 51

Talent

Scientific concentration Training & education

Talent

Training & education

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

Rank

Rank

Rank

Employee training

Educational assessment PISA - Math 23

49 13

48 38

u International experience

14 u

Total public expenditure on education

30 u 18 w

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

43 40 24 25

5

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

57 35 33 49

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

48 25

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 34 31 30 37 34 31 36 35 50 46 24 26 14 13 18

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business

15 14

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

-

17 19 15 26 24 23

u Enforcing contracts w Immigration laws

43

57 w

56 u

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

35 37 39

35 33 50

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 46 52 52 51 51 41 41 47 45 48 36 37 44 37 37

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

w E-Participation

59

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

51 54 39 25 39 42

43 39 25 40

34 w

Internet retailing Tablet possession

Public-private partnerships

27 47 52

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

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

Attitudes toward globalization

113

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

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