IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES MALAYSIA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 26 27 24 22 30 11 3 10 11 8 27 26 30 27 26

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 43

Employee training

31 33

25 39 11 28 50 19 21

International experience

32 25 22

Total public expenditure on education

40 u

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

28

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

30 u 24 u

1 w

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

4

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 21 30 29 29 35 7 9 12 14 18 21 19 32 20 15

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

w Starting a business

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

52 28 44 20 26

23 23 21 36 30

42 29 19 41 36

Enforcing contracts

w Immigration laws

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

34 u

8 u

Investment in Telecommunications

3

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 29 28 30 30 30 17 12 15 17 30 30 34 35 33 33

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation

28 45 27 26 27

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

35 22 34

41 17 29 45

w Internet retailing

Public-private partnerships

Tablet possession

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

26 w

Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics

Attitudes toward globalization

Knowledge transfer

25 36

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

115

IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2020