IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SWEDEN

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 08 09 07 06 13 02 02 02 04 04 03 06 04 02 04

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

05 13 41 38 01 08 20

16 14 29 12 10 24

09 05 24 20 19 11

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

u

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

w

Foreign highly skilled personnel

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

w

Management of cities

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

u

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 05 05 03 02 07 04 04 05 07 08 12 11 13 09 17

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

16 16 29 10 20 31

23 30 34 04 07 06

24 11 10 01 06 49

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

w Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

u

u Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

w

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 08 08 05 07 10 13 10 13 10 17 12 04 05 04 08

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

05 33 26 06 18 06

29 15 01 41 05

32 21 11 09 09 22

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

w

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

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