IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES THAILAND

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 40 36 39 37 35 50 55 56 57 52 35 37 36 36 38

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

34 44 14 30 57 31 13

46 23 19 19 36 41

20 51 46 54 38 48

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

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

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 33 31 29 34 31 21 17 19 20 12 29 25 22 18 15

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

15 28 30 45 05 11

26 28 18 30 34 35

12 26 19 41 23 05

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

Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

u

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

u

u

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 58 53 53 52 42 30 44 34 41 34 51 43 43 50 49

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

48 18 38 56 58 43

17 40 57 30 10

29 11 30 25 24 51

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

u

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

w Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

w

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

w

u Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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