Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES GERMANY

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 16 22 25 22 21 15 19 14 17 17 15 10 4 5 6

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 19

6

8

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

15 17

39 46

11 49 12 26 18

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

18 u 54 u

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

3 3

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

w Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

15

43

u

Robots in Education and R&D

2

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 20 23 27 28 25 19 16 17 16 23 26 27 40 45 43

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

11 w 31 w

Starting a business Enforcing contracts Immigration laws

51 12 10

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

55 56 46 16 32 27

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

31

44 u

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

1

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

28

Venture capital

30 42

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

9

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 22 22 16 23 23 18 20 11 15 15 16 18 17 20 20

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

45 w 13 u

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

55

24 37 24

5

Public-private partnerships

22

Agility of companies

38 53 14 7

Cyber security Software piracy

23 w

Smartphone possession

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

8

Attitudes toward globalization

35

85

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

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