Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

AUSTRALIA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 8 8 7 6 8 51 32 29 28 37 14 11 13 19 18

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 28 w

Employee training

58 22 15

21

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

45 11 24

- -

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

-

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

17 13 41 22

44 w

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

58 12

u Net flow of international students

High-tech patent grants

2

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 11 6 7 6 17 16 18 19 13 17 21 19 17 20 27

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

u Starting a business Enforcing contracts Immigration laws

38 w

5 6

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

57

37 29 11 31

8

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

33 28 29 20

12 31 42 17

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

8

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 4 2 7 5 14 42 28 35 43 55 10 6 11 12 21

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

9 w

56 u

E-Participation Internet retailing

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

5

12

30 56

Public-private partnerships

34 54

u Tablet possession

4 w

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

35 u

Smartphone possession

8

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

5

Attitudes toward globalization

50

31 44

51

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