Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES CROATIA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 59 59 58 61 61 41 36 31 26 42 35 32 33 32 34

Talent

Scientific concentration Training & education

Talent

Training & education

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

Rank

Rank

Rank

Educational assessment PISA - Math 37 w

Employee training

64 28

37 37 11 46 34 12 41

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

62 61

43 u

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

62 u

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

9

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

48 53

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

23

42 u

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 52 55 59 59 56 52 52 50 43 50 40 43 41 40 41

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

48 24 59 62 59

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

22

41 16 49 32 46 46

55 u

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

61 54 59

w Development & application of tech.

Country credit rating

Internet users

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

57 u

Investment in Telecommunications

6

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 43 37 51 46 39 62 63 62 63 64 46 49 57 59 58

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

22 w

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

63

44 63 49 43

49 w

52

Public-private partnerships

33 w

Agility of companies

63 61 62 49

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

30 60

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

Attitudes toward globalization

71

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