IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES UAE

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 05 05 01 01 01 41 44 25 22 25 56 52 52 46 51

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

27 36 39 50 32 23 41

43 04 03 01 19 01

44 48 19 43 06 12

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

Foreign highly skilled personnel

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

w

u 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 01 03 02 03 08 02 10 11 10 17 05 08 05 03 03

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

33 18 01 01 19 46

08 09 02 16 30 38

29 19 26 16 07 33

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

u

u Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

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 20 15 15 16 14 04 12 10 26 31 08 08 10 24 26

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

13 17 10 20 07 63

17 28 08 14 02

19 50 14 29 32 39

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

w

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

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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