Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SPAIN

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 32 32 29 32 31 42 40 40 42 40 29 27 20 20 23

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 33

48 43 28

33 28 22 10 25 43

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

41 24 26 35 31

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

20 u

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

39 27

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

u

Robots in Education and R&D

9

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 35 36 34 36 37 34 37 33 34 34 23 29 23 27 24

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

41 23 22 37 53 29

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

20 42 35 38

19 27 31 19 16 52

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

w Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

29 u 27 w

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 24 26 25 35 33 47 44 38 48 49 26 27 25 30 29

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

47 u

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

34

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

17 26 40 32

29 u

10 41 55 48 46

Public-private partnerships

26

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

w Smartphone possession

56 w 28 w

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

Attitudes toward globalization

155

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