IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SINGAPORE

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 01 01 02 03 04 04 07 13 09 09 22 10 11 11 11

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

18 15 45 42 22 01 30

02 11 06 06 12 07

27 62 02 26 03

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

u

w

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

-

Women with degrees

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

u

Net flow of international students

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 02 01 05 01 01 08 11 14 11 15 01 01 02 02 02

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

23 22 06 25 01 03

03 01 49 11 08 09

28 04 06 01 10 58

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile broadband subscribers

u Enforcing contracts w Immigration laws

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

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 19 20 11 17 13 06 11 12 09 14 04 03 07 08 11

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

12 08 08 17 10 50

03 24 15 38 13

16 14 24 11 05

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

Attitudes toward globalization

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Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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