IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SWITZERLAND

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 02 02 03 02 02 15 14 07 08 07 07 09 08 08 10

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

08 08 33 35 06 24 16

10 01 01 10 16 09

04 14 20 06 27 31

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

u International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

u 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

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 14 10 09 08 04 16 14 12 12 11 09 14 11 11 12

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

07 01 47 12 10 30

36 40 16 07 01 01

50 09 08 01 18 26

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

w

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile broadband subscribers

w Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

w

Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

u Scientific research legislation u Intellectual property rights

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 11 09 10 12 16 14 06 04 07 07 07 07 04 06 06

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

22 07 20 10 28 03

38 07 07 20 21

10 24 07 30 01 05

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

w 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

u

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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