IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES TAIWAN, CHINA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 19 18 25 21 18 23 28 25 20 21 19 17 13 15 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 4

Employee training

12

4 2

34 w

46 u 3 w

International experience

Total public expenditure on education

w Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

47

53 37 44 17 17

18 w

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

51

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

5 w

Digital/Technological skills

25 11

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

33

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 25 24 21 23 16 6 8 13 12 8 6 4 10 4 4

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

10 u

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

Starting a business Enforcing contracts Immigration laws

1

22

18 u

11 28 28 19 22

1

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

16 23 19 37

14 29

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

5 5

Investment in Telecommunications

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 19 19 28 14 14 24 6 13 3 1 24 22 23 24 17

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

-

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

2 7 1 5

-

21

Public-private partnerships

15

25 u

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

8

u Smartphone possession

2

Use of big data and analytics

25

Attitudes toward globalization

10

Knowledge transfer

19 10

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

157

IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2020