IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES CROATIA

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 58 61 61 52 54 31 26 42 34 36 33 32 34 34 32

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

33 35 09 49 34 21 39

36 59 56 56 28 53

49 25 44 08 13 45

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

u

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 Robots in Education and R&D

Net flow of international students

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 59 59 56 46 47 50 43 50 35 33 41 40 41 42 44

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

31 24 50 39 57 41

48 23 21 61 52 51

18 47 45 43 42 06

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

u

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile broadband subscribers

Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

w Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

u

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 51 46 39 40 41 62 63 64 58 57 57 59 58 44 48

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

39 61 45 43 46 25

26 47 31 18 59

49 48 40 53 58 29

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

w

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

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

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