IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES TAIWAN, CHINA

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 21 18 17 21 22 20 21 12 11 10 15 18 19 21 21

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

03 01 54 32 47 20 19

04 40 44 17 32 13

07 52 03 50 07 08

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

w

u

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

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 23 16 16 14 16 12 08 02 09 05 04 04 04 04 05

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

19 01 10 22 13 04

10 11 31 25 16 20

01 18 14 15 19 46

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

u

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

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

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Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 14 14 13 13 17 03 01 02 05 01 24 17 15 13 14

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

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-

05 07 01 01 12 18

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

13 19 25 09 40

26 20 07 06

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

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Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

u

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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