IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES DENMARK

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 8 6 6 6 4 7 5 3 6 9 18 19 14 17 15

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 12 u

Employee training

1

9 1

6 u

International experience

10 19

Total public expenditure on education

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

27

33 49 19 38 27

4 w

Management of cities

2

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

5 w

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

45

22 w

High-tech patent grants

Net flow of international students

7

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 9 8 8 10 4 26 25 22 27 23 8 5 5 8 6

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

26 w

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

Starting a business Enforcing contracts Immigration laws

46

2 8 9 8 7

13 20

6

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

11

3 u

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

1

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

4

Venture capital

13 35

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

1 w

Investment in Telecommunications

29

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 5 1 5 1 2 15 11 6 10 5 10 11 5 1 1

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

3 u

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

9 4

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

1 5

30

Public-private partnerships

19 10

Agility of companies

2

Cyber security Software piracy

12

Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics

12

8

u Attitudes toward globalization

1

Knowledge transfer

3 -

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

73

IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2020