IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES NORWAY

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 20 20 20 16 16 15 12 11 17 10 23 22 20 21 23

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 18

Employee training

4

16 11 26 45 24 28 30

International experience

25 15 13

Total public expenditure on education

16 18

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

5 w

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

11 w

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

40 17

w Net flow of international students

High-tech patent grants

55

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 5 3 1 3 2 8 7 2 7 9 4 3 3 6 9

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

14

18 10 13

12

u Enforcing contracts

3 7

6

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

29

10 u

1 u

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

2 8

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

6

Venture capital

14 30

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

19 w

Investment in Telecommunications

16

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 7 8 8 5 7 28 20 14 23 8 9 14 9 9 6

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing

18

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

12 42

13

8 w

Public-private partnerships

7

u Tablet possession

3 4

Agility of companies

8 6

Cyber security Software piracy

16 10

u Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics

Attitudes toward globalization

24

Knowledge transfer

12 8

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

125

IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2020