Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES USA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 13 11 14 14 13 33 21 25 24 24 1 1 1 1 2

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 36

29 10 19 19 56 13

9

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

26

- -

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

6

Management of cities

27

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

3

9 w

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

18

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

14

4 3

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 17 16 19 22 12 2 1 1 1 1 12 9 11 7 9

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business Enforcing contracts

30 16 37

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

7 3 1

15 13

w Immigration laws

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

7

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

7

10

23 11 21

5 u

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

1

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

17

19

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2 1 2 3 1 3 9 2 2 1 12 8 5 10 3

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

u E-Participation u Internet retailing u Tablet possession

1 1 1

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

7 4 7

9

Public-private partnerships

11 22

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

5 u

Smartphone possession

14 38

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

1

w Attitudes toward globalization

6 18

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