WDC 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES FRANCE

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 24 24 24 21 24 37 34 35 33 28 8 9 10 17 12

Talent

Scientific concentration Training & education

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration Total expenditure on R&D (%) Total R&D personnel per capita

Rank

Rank

Rank

Educational assessment PISA - Math 24

Employee training

35 17 27 44 21 31

13 18 46 14 16 19

International experience

48 30

Total public expenditure on education

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Management of cities

9

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

29 16

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

Net flow of international students

High-tech patent grants

u

Robots in Education and R&D

5

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 18 15 15 5 8 31 31 26 25 18 20 22 25 28 22

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business Enforcing contracts Immigration laws

17 11 12

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

25 11 40 16 18 30

13 50 35 24 16

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development and application of technology29

Scientific research legislation u Intellectual property rights

11

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

u

Investment in Telecommunications

8

7

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 25 23 26 32 36 18 21 44 36 39 19 19 20 19 19

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

w u w w

u

E-Participation Internet retailing

13 14 50 41 63

53

9

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

8

19 22 20

Public-private partnerships

w Tablet possession

Agility of companies

55 53 26

Cyber security Sofware piracy

Use of big data and analytics

Smartphone possession

w Attitudes toward globalization

Knowledge transfer

77

IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2019