Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES BELGIUM

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 17 17 18 20 20 29 30 26 31 31 27 29 24 21 20

Talent

Scientific concentration Training & education

Talent

Training & education

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

Rank

Rank

Rank

24 u

Employee training

Educational assessment PISA - Math 14

11 13 34 43 23 39 19

11 u

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

8

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

29 30

24 42 59 24

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

31 w

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

12

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 16 17 22 19 18 23 23 25 21 20 31 33 26 29 37

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business Enforcing contracts

28 40

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

35 20

33 39 59 17 22 35

u Immigration laws

19 w

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

8

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

31 18 10

19 13 30

Scientific research legislation u Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 21 19 23 24 22 21 21 33 35 38 19 21 23 26 26

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

w E-Participation u Internet retailing

56 w

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

44 24 42 36 21 47

36 31 30 13

10 11 20 23

Public-private partnerships

Tablet possession

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

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

Attitudes toward globalization

w

55

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