IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES UAE

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 5 5 4 5 5 53 56 53 41 44 51 52 56 56 52

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 45

Employee training

14 62 47

30 32 39 55 35 27 39

u International experience

2 w

Total public expenditure on education

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

3 3

42 w

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

17

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

17 19

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

3

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 16 5 3 1 3 14 12 11 2 10 31 29 16 5 8

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers Technological framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business Enforcing contracts

8 9 1

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

8

32 34

11

u Immigration laws

6 u

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

1

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

12 14

16

35 31 58

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

6

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

23 w

50 w

Investment in Telecommunications

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 14 17 21 20 15 18 1 1 4 12 18 8 14 8 8

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

E-Government IT integration

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

16

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

4

21

32 w

53 u

Public-private partnerships

1 4

14

Agility of companies

6 2

Cyber security Software piracy

19 u

Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics

20

Attitudes toward globalization

5

Knowledge transfer

16 27

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

163

IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2020