IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES USA

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 14 14 13 14 12 25 24 24 23 20 01 01 02 01 01

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

04 22

35 17 04 21 09 16

28 09 21 18 46 10

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

03 18 04 03

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

u

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

u

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 19 22 12 12 12 01 01 01 02 01 11 07 09 13 09

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

35 11 09 36 03 20

29 16 41 10 05 17

06 05 18 11 02 25

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

u

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 02 03 01 04 02 02 02 01 04 02 05 10 03 10 09

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

10 09 23 01 15 37

10 01 16 44 50

20 04 19 04 08 17

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

u Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

u

w Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

w Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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