IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES BULGARIA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 52 51 53 50 48 40 39 42 46 50 31 30 33 37 42

Talent

Scientific concentration Training & education

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration Total expenditure on R&D (%) Total R&D personnel per capita

Rank

Rank

Rank

Educational assessment PISA - Math 44 w

Employee training

61 48

45 26 12 52 42 26 50

International experience

52 56

Total public expenditure on education

w Foreign highly-skilled personnel

44 u

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

47 u

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

14 47 35

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

23 53

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 48 50 52 46 55 36 46 50 42 48 34 34 36 44 39

Regulatory framework Capital Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

Starting a business Enforcing contracts Immigration laws

47 32 55 54 56 55

38 41

37 39 22 44 40 40

52 u

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

42 39 34

w Scientific research legislation w Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 58 47 48 43 41 60 61 59 56 40 53 55 54 47 47

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

u E-Participation

22 52 46 41 51

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

51 45

39 39 56 50

Internet retailing Tablet possession

Public-private partnerships

54 w

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics

39 49

Attitudes toward globalization

Knowledge transfer

u

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

9

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IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2020