IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES CANADA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 10 9 7 13 8 13 10 4 7 6 4 4 4 2 7

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 11

Employee training

20 35

23 22 20 11

International experience

17 11 16

Total public expenditure on education

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

6 7

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

9 w 10 u

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

38

6

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

2

12 9

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 17 21 11 17 12 5 1 5 10 3 24 27 24 27 26

Regulatory framework Capital Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

u Starting a business w Enforcing contracts

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

2

24

17 43 51 17 11 27

14 w 4 w

50 14

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

8 u

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

1

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

9

Venture capital

10 16

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

12

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 16 13 15 17 16 1 5 4 16 16 7 15 12 13 13

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

16

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

14

26

13 u

6

Public-private partnerships

3

22

Agility of companies

14

Cyber security Software piracy

13 13

33 u

Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics

4 7

Attitudes toward globalization

16

Knowledge transfer

w

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

42

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IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2020