Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES FRANCE

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 24 21 24 25 23 35 33 28 36 27 10 17 12 13 12

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 24

30 21 23 40 26 30

15 21 46 15 16 15

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

47 30 17 30 19

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

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

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

u

Robots in Education and R&D

5

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 15 5 8 9 10 26 25 18 20 21 25 28 22 19 17

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business Enforcing contracts

21 15 14 21 21 15

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

28 22 34 15

20 25 36 28 14 10

u Immigration laws

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

23 u 20 u

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 26 32 36 36 48 44 36 39 36 33 20 19 19 21 22

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

18 w 19 u 48 w 39 w

E-Participation Internet retailing

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

52

19 20 28 20

8

Public-private partnerships

w Tablet possession

Agility of companies

53 52 28 23

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

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

w Attitudes toward globalization

64

83

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