IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES KUWAIT

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 - - - - 43 - - - - 53 - - - - 35

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

60 03 10 33

-

34 06 61

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

w

Educational assessment PISA - Math

27 43 49 45

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

u

u

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

w

u

Foreign highly skilled personnel

- -

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

Management of cities

-

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

- 54

-

56

Women with degrees

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

Net flow of international students

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 - - - - 44 - - - - 40 - - - - 25

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

38 14 19 04 28 61

37 43 44 40 46 52

27 38 09 24 38 63

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

u

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

w

w

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 - - - - 36 - - - - 47 - - - - 40

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

51 42 22

52 39 12 23 45

54 57 51 26 47 35

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

w

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

Tablet possession

-

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

Smartphone possession

16 54

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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