Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES CANADA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 9 7 13 8 9 10 4 7 6 10 4 4 2 7 5

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 11

28 42

24 22 20 11

24 w 13 u

Total public expenditure on education

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

6 7

Management of cities

20

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

12 w 8 u

38 u

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

5

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

1

13 8

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 21 11 17 12 13 1 5 10 3 9 27 24 27 26 29

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

u Starting a business w Enforcing contracts

2

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

15 15

29 36 51 12 15 26

50

15 w

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

7

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

10 14 23

9

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

15 17

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 13 15 17 16 17 5 4 16 16 20 15 12 13 13 14

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation

16

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

15 13 21

26 12 15 13

u Internet retailing

4

Public-private partnerships

Tablet possession

21 34 29

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

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

8

Attitudes toward globalization

19 43

w

63

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