IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES FRANCE

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 24 25 23 23 24 28 36 27 27 29 12 13 12 13 14

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

17 21 49 17 17 15 05

24 33 22 26 31 20

36 24 23 39 23 30

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

w

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

Net flow of international students

u

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 08 09 10 15 21 18 20 21 19 28 22 19 17 20 19

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

17 31 38 28 06 17

21 15 25 38 25 13

32 29 47 16 27 20

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile broadband subscribers

u Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

u

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

u Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 36 36 48 41 43 39 36 33 38 41 19 21 22 21 24

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

18 35 27 20 21 30

34 23 25 25 64

55 08 50 47 33 23

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

w

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

u

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

w

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

w

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

w Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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