Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SWITZERLAND

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2 2 2 2 3 25 15 15 14 7 13 6 7 9 8

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 10

4

7 4

u International experience

Total public expenditure on education

1 1 6

17

u Foreign highly-skilled personnel

14 w 6 w

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

33 37

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

11 10

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

29 29

4

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

26 14

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 13 15 14 10 9 11 15 16 14 12 10 8 9 14 11

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

37 w

Starting a business

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

44

8 6

w Enforcing contracts

41 18

9

5 w

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

38 13

6 u

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

1

Scientific research legislation u Intellectual property rights

1 1

Venture capital

11 31

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

3

Investment in Telecommunications

31

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 23 12 11 9 10 4 7 14 6 4 13 16 7 7 4

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

18

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

11 25

16

8 9 4

Public-private partnerships

5 7

Agility of companies

6

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

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

23

10

21 u

Attitudes toward globalization

1 3

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