IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES UNITED KINGDOM

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 7 7 9 17 10 19 19 20 23 25 10 11 8 8 8

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 17 w

Employee training

41 27 16

22 19 24

International experience

18 18 19 20

Total public expenditure on education

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

35 u

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

5 9

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

22 18

u Net flow of international students

High-tech patent grants

5

22

u

Robots in Education and R&D

6

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 11 12 7 18 17 25 24 17 22 22 16 16 17 18 22

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 Enforcing contracts

9

32 17 17 18

31 19 25 15 35 14

27 43 13

w Immigration laws

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

16 u 10 w

5 w

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

53

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 4 6 4 10 11 25 22 16 26 25 13 6 2 14 11

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation

6 3

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

28 14 26 23 18 34

7

u Internet retailing

Public-private partnerships

18 27 10

Tablet possession

17 22 39

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics

w Attitudes toward globalization

Knowledge transfer

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

167

IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2020