Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SINGAPORE

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 1 1 1 1 2 9 1 4 7 13 8 19 22 10 11

Talent

Scientific concentration Training & education

Talent

Training & education

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

Rank

Rank

Rank

Employee training

Educational assessment PISA - Math 2

23 63

20 15 43 39 27 1 30

8 w

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

2 w 27 w

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

3 2 8 7

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

4

- u

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 1 2 2 1 5 14 8 8 11 14 1 1 1 1 2

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business

3 1

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

31

10 20

u Enforcing contracts w Immigration laws

4 4 1

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

61

8

u Development & application of tech.

1 u

Country credit rating

Internet users

24

10 u

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

8

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

1 3

8 w

Investment in Telecommunications

55

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 11 20 19 20 11 14 18 6 11 12 1 3 4 3 7

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

6

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

17 14 13 14

11

24 15

Public-private partnerships

3 8

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

2 9

Use of big data and analytics Knowledge transfer Entrepreneurial fear of failure

17

Attitudes toward globalization

8 -

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IMD WORLD DI G I TAL COMPET I T I VENESS RANK ING 2021