Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES BULGARIA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 51 53 50 48 54 39 42 46 50 53 30 33 37 42 46

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 44

57 47

43 35 12 47 38 25 50

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

55 62

w Foreign highly-skilled personnel

47 u

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

55 u

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

14 51 34

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

40 55

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 50 52 46 55 55 46 50 42 48 53 34 36 44 39 42

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business Enforcing contracts

47 32 60 56 57 55

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

36 50

32 33 21 56 38 38

w Immigration laws

49 u

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

43 48 33

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 47 48 43 41 45 61 59 56 40 61 55 54 47 47 53

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

u E-Participation

22 w

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

61 45

39 55 60 50

Internet retailing Tablet possession

51

Public-private partnerships

46 w

61 w

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

41 54

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

59 52 10

Attitudes toward globalization

u

61

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