IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ITALY

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 44 44 41 44 42 48 46 56 57 58 29 32 28 23 22

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 30 w

Employee training

60 41 52

27 25 37 16 48 11 6

International experience

50 52 44 51 33

Total public expenditure on education

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

49 u 26 u

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

48

u

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 41 42 41 44 48 51 53 49 53 54 43 42 44 46 43

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

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

42 56

39 47 54 48 52 24

49 49 26 24 43 46

w Enforcing contracts

21 w

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

52 47 31

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 27 27 36 35 42 16 30 32 31 23 33 35 32 34 39

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

35

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

25

34 48 47 33

27 u

6

Public-private partnerships

42

Agility of companies

45 59 33

Cyber security Software piracy

51 w

Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics

w Attitudes toward globalization

55

Knowledge transfer

u

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

4

99

IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2020