IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES CZECH REPUBLIC

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 22 26 29 35 26 50 49 55 44 46 33 34 36 30 31

Talent

Scientific concentration Training & education

Talent

Training & education

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

Rank

Rank

Rank

35 u

Educational assessment PISA - Math 21

Employee training

19 20 50 34 29 36 19

International experience

33 42 33 39 12

Total public expenditure on education

29

45 w

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

41 33 44

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

u Net flow of international students

High-tech patent grants

u

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 39 43 44 43 45 17 15 19 28 27 15 15 18 28 28

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

w Starting a business w Enforcing contracts

56 u

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

12 32 35 21 31 40

43 20 26 27 34 19

52 32 39 37 35

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 48 42 34 46 34 29 33 25 37 27 36 33 34 35 36

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

w E-Participation

50

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

31

35 55 42 20

22 u

16 w

Internet retailing Tablet possession

Public-private partnerships

45 27 40

Agility of companies

32 27 31 -

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics

Attitudes toward globalization

Knowledge transfer

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

71

IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2020