IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ESTONIA

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 37 31 29 30 28 10 03 08 05 08 46 47 45 43 43

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

23 32 20 58 36 11 48

07 45 32 37 38 28

12 10 34 13 17 16

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

Foreign highly skilled personnel

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

w

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

Net flow of international students

w

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 31 30 28 30 18 24 29 33 29 35 16 17 20 21 13

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

46 07 05 13 35 22

07 08 36 17 28 23

51 30 27 26 24 43

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

w

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 (%)

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 26 18 20 14 09 43 26 25 20 23 26 22 25 07 05

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

08 44 15 30 02 09

03 19 04 19 24

22 46 09 34 35 07

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

u E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

w

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

u

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

u

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