IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES AUSTRALIA

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 07 06 08 07 08 29 28 37 29 28 13 19 18 16 16

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

22

28 46 12 22 39 02

47 18 18

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

15 13 33 20

-

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

Management of cities

44 07

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 07 06 17 10 15 19 13 17 13 16 17 20 27 26 31

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

49 09 14 34 49 14

05 06 42 26 24 16

38 35 29 01 34 07

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

w

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

u

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

w

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 07 05 14 08 04 35 43 55 40 42 11 12 21 15 23

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

07 30 53 05 39 23

02 04 03 15 28

50 30 45 35 27 33

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

w

u E-Participation u Internet retailing u Tablet possession

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Agility of companies

Cyber security

w

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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