IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SLOVAK REPUBLIC

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 54 53 52 44 48 52 52 49 43 40 36 38 40 39 39

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

42 37 24 39 42 26 32

30 53 58 45 24 57

41 43 42 17 37 39

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

u

w Foreign highly skilled personnel

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

u

Management of cities

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

u Digital/Technological skills

Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 58 61 60 58 55 43 47 42 58 58 37 38 39 40 42

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

32 36 42 32 45 44

49 34 60 56 57 55

57 57 44 33 56 28

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

w 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 (%)

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 42 50 49 50 52 61 62 60 50 51 40 44 40 39 36

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

41 51 25 26 55 19

57 34 26 33 60

57 28 37 28 59 30

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

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

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

w

w Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

u

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