Digital Ranking 2022

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES JAPAN

u Overall top strengths v r ll T Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses w Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 36 46 46 47 50 14 19 18 21 21 12 11 11 13 14

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

30 54 08 01 42 08

05 63 54 16 62 25

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

07 18 55 16 39 06 04

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

w International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

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

w Digital/Technological skills

Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants Robots in Education and R&D

Net flow of international students

u

TECHNOLOGY

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 40 42 44 48 47 33 37 33 37 32 04 02 05 08 08

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

10 41 35 28 34 32

43 35 61 41 49 34

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

42 22 02 19 19 24

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

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 13 15 19 18 20 55 41 56 53 62 15 18 23 23 18

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

63 02 63 63 49 35

04 16 24 10 48

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

14 41 45 02 23 11

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

u

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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