Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES CYPRUS

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 56 62 62 57 56 22 29 33 30 29 51 52 53 35 29

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 42

39 20 10 29

50 42 26 56

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

31

26 u

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Management of cities

33

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

38 w 62 u

61 u 17 u

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

6 6 -

w Net flow of international students

High-tech patent grants

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 45 51 56 47 47 54 60 60 52 54 54 49 48 52 52

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business

29 59 52 41 38 42

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

45

34 60 44 33 53 20

w Enforcing contracts

48 w

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

47 55 57 29

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

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 56 45 34 28 27 51 45 57 42 50 47 46 38 29 33

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

u E-Participation

14

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

53

18 46 38 34

Internet retailing Tablet possession

-

-

Public-private partnerships

38

Agility of companies

48 60 51 20

Cyber security Software piracy

- w

Smartphone possession

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

Attitudes toward globalization

48

73

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