Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ICELAND

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 38 37 34 33 35 7 18 18 15 22 37 35 39 46 39

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 25

31

13

40 u

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

4

7

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

37 35

26

13 62 12 53 55

38 w

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

u Digital/Technological skills

4 w

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

53

w Net flow of international students

High-tech patent grants

60

8

w

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 22 18 15 15 14 43 40 39 35 26 11 12 15 16 3

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

- u

Starting a business Enforcing contracts Immigration laws

34 26

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

4 7

23 26

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

6

10

33 u

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

13 20 16

2

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

35 23

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

13

Investment in Telecommunications

6

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 16 18 28 25 31 10 11 24 19 16 28 28 28 27 27

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

42 u 35 w

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

4

12 33 26 34

56

Public-private partnerships

- -

Agility of companies

5

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

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

20 20 -

Attitudes toward globalization

10

93

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