Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SWEDEN

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 11 10 8 9 7 1 5 2 2 2 5 3 3 6 4

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 16

3 5

4

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

5

12 41 40

22 w 22 w

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

19 10

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

2

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

21 14

3

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

22

7 22

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 4 12 5 5 3 13 10 4 4 5 7 7 12 11 13

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

23

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

21

5

31 u

1 8 1 2

23 19

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

13

2 u 2 u 4 w

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

8 7

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

36 w

Investment in Telecommunications

28

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 7 9 8 8 5 13 10 13 10 13 4 11 12 4 5

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing

35 14

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

9

6

21 10 10

Public-private partnerships

13 19

u Tablet possession

2 6 1

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

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

6

u Attitudes toward globalization

4

w

31

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