Digital Ranking 2022

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES HONG KONG SAR

u Overall top strengths v r ll T Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses w Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 05 04 07 06 10 13 12 05 01 02 05 16 17 14 18

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

32 37 07 28 01

03 10 33 12 15 30

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

41 30

w

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

24 08 02 53

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

u

Net flow of international students

w

TECHNOLOGY

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 14 12 07 06 09 06 06 12 07 08 11 03 02 01 01

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

05 13 07 17 08 40

04 24 10 14 22 10

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

10 18 05 22 07 01

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

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

w

u

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 11 12 04 03 09 26 08 14 09 11 25 22 19 17 45

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

02 37 04 12 17

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Opportunities and threats

E-Government

-

u

E-Participation

20 10 01 08

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

14 07 28 48 63

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

u 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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