IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES JAPAN

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 46 46 47 50 49 19 18 21 21 21 11 11 13 14 15

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

06 20 57 16 39 06 06

05 64 54 09 63 27

35 53 06 03 39 06

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

w International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly skilled personnel

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

u

Management of cities

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

w Digital/Technological skills

Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants Robots in Education and R&D

Net flow of international students

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 42 44 48 47 50 37 33 37 32 36 02 05 08 08 07

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

26 19 02 20 11 24

44 35 62 49 48 34

10 43 42 30 39 44

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile broadband subscribers

Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

u

Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 15 19 18 20 22 41 56 53 62 56 18 23 23 18 16

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

14 41 43 02 24 11

01 17 32 55 46

62 02 64 64 43 36

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

w

u E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

u

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

w

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

w

u

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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