IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES NETHERLANDS

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 4 3 3 3 3 33 32 31 36 29 16 18 16 19 16

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 8

Employee training

7

14

u International experience

3 6 9

Total public expenditure on education

23

8

21 w

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

51 24 12 14 26

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

25 58 31

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

10 w

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

9

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 14 9 10 6 11 9 5 7 5 2 13 14 14 10 12

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

Starting a business

13 45 11

4 4

9

w Enforcing contracts

15 32

15 w

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

7 u 10 u 6 w

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

1 2

4

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

16 13

Investment in Telecommunications

43

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 3 5 7 9 6 2 7 12 7 7 2 3 7 3 5

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

9 5

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

13 21 16 20

10

Public-private partnerships

6

13 24

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

18 13

Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics

9 u

Attitudes toward globalization

Knowledge transfer

2 3

u

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

121

IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2020