IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES UNITED KINGDOM

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 17 10 11 15 18 23 25 26 19 27 08 08 07 06 06

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

12 23 25 11 07 16 08

17 37 28 34 26 03

50 21 14 28 35 15

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

w

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

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

u Net flow of international students

u

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 18 17 20 24 30 22 22 18 28 31 18 22 19 29 32

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

36 32 24 37 38 13

09 26 52 28 23 21

33 25 31 21 15 48

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

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 10 11 09 10 07 26 25 23 28 36 14 11 09 16 20

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

11 28 30 10 23 46

06 03 14 46 44

46 15 46 24 13 44

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

w

u E-Participation u Internet retailing

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

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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