Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IRELAND

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 15 14 10 19 18 34 34 30 35 32 31 24 29 25 26

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 20

15 54 11 51 35 15

32 17 31 41 17 10 37

12 w

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

u Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

9

31 w

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

23 21

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 14 20 13 14 19 49 53 49 45 35 13 13 24 30 34

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

12 w

Starting a business

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

58 14 30 26 18 59

48 40 34 25 36 11

w Enforcing contracts u Immigration laws

48

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

9

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

18 10

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

18 w

Investment in Telecommunications

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 12 10 3 12 12 2 3 9 9 14 24 24 20 25 19

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation

28

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

10 43

25 25 13 19

u Internet retailing

7

Public-private partnerships

16 u

Tablet possession

Agility of companies

9

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

10

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

30 16 12

u Attitudes toward globalization

8

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