Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES UNITED KINGDOM

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 7 9 17 10 11 19 20 23 25 26 11 8 8 8 7

Talent

Scientific concentration Training & education

Talent

Training & education

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

Rank

Rank

Rank

Educational assessment PISA - Math 17 w

Employee training

38 27 18

22 19 25

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

23 20 16 19

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

36 u

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

6 8

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

24 20

u Net flow of international students

High-tech patent grants

4

19

u

Robots in Education and R&D

6

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 12 7 18 17 20 24 17 22 22 18 16 17 18 22 19

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business Enforcing contracts

9

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

32 12 14 19

27 18 26 10 39 13

27 51 17

w Immigration laws

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

15 u 14 w

3 w

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

48

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 6 4 10 11 9 22 16 26 25 23 6 2 14 11 9

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation

6 3

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

28 15 20 18 13 35

7

u Internet retailing

Public-private partnerships

19 17 10

Tablet possession

18 22 37

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

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

w Attitudes toward globalization

171

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