IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IRELAND

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 18 15 14 10 19 25 34 34 30 35 32 31 24 29 25

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 20

Employee training

24 56 11 50 32 12

36 17 32 43 20 11 37

9 w

International experience

Total public expenditure on education

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

10

42 w

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

33 25

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 18 14 20 13 14 49 49 53 49 45 18 13 13 24 30

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

12 w

50 w

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

Starting a business Enforcing contracts

54 30 28 20 33

48

21 25 27 17 57

u Immigration laws

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

2

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

21 11

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

21 w

Investment in Telecommunications

9

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 13 12 10 3 12 8 2 3 9 9 22 24 24 20 25

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

28 u

E-Participation

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

9

25 23 31 19

u Internet retailing

7

43

Public-private partnerships

15 u

Tablet possession

Agility of companies

5

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

10

Use of big data and analytics

18 13 11

u Attitudes toward globalization

7

Knowledge transfer

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

95

IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2020