IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES NETHERLANDS

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 03 03 04 04 03 36 29 28 25 23 19 16 16 12 12

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

16 09 47 27 03 12 23

08 03 02 11 05 06

06 22 16 24 51 28

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

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

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 06 11 07 07 02 05 02 03 03 02 10 12 10 10 10

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

02 17 35 14 16 16

13 45 07 08 04 02

02 08 16 01 04 45

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

u

u

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile broadband subscribers

w Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

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

u Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 09 06 06 02 06 07 07 08 08 08 03 05 06 09 07

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

09 05 12 13 41 07

05 09 11 25 11

09 20 10 13 03 11

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

w

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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