IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IRELAND

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 10 19 18 19 16 30 35 32 31 24 29 25 26 24 24

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

38 26 29 36 16 07 27

20 10 08 39 27 23

08 60 08 46 21 05

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

w

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly skilled personnel

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

Management of cities

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants Robots in Education and R&D

u

Net flow of international students

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 13 14 19 22 09 49 45 35 44 42 24 30 34 38 35

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

25 47 41 21 34 12

12 48 04 19 06 10

59 10 25 23 14 59

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

w

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile broadband subscribers

Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

u Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

w

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 03 12 12 11 19 09 09 14 18 15 20 25 19 38 35

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

28 20 32 19 57 51

42 06 19 56 01

01 41 02 22 14 40

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

u

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

u

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

w Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

w

u Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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