Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SLOVAK REPUBLIC

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 50 56 54 53 52 40 47 52 52 49 39 42 36 38 40

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 31

54 41

45 34 21 38 46 30 32

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

57 60

w Foreign highly-skilled personnel

39 u

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

51 u

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

26 41 41

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

37 58

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 55 60 58 61 60 39 46 43 47 42 38 34 37 38 39

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business Enforcing contracts Immigration laws

49 35 56

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

57 56 52 29 53

44 37 37 36 29 42

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

w Development & application of tech.

60 u

Country credit rating

Internet users

w Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

61

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

59 u

Investment in Telecommunications

5

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 52 51 42 50 49 52 58 61 62 60 37 45 40 44 40

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

53 31 34 32

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

58 28 45

42 47 56 26

Public-private partnerships

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

47 u

Smartphone possession

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

w Attitudes toward globalization

59 w

61 34

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