IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SAUDI ARABIA

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 20 34 32 28 19 38 34 34 24 30 59 62 64 58 55

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

51 50 16 13 55 38 54

56 07 11 14 06 36

21 11 32 41 31 33

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

w Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

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

w

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 39 25 30 25 14 13 05 15 22 09 54 47 35 34 36

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

12 30 23 11 42 62

22 36 26 02 10 22

49 01 11 28 03 19

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile broadband subscribers

u

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

u

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

w

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 50 37 46 33 32 36 28 35 32 25 30 24 24 33 29

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

29 01 02 38 22 62

39 51 47 03 17

13 51 13 07 17 47

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

u

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

u

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

w

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