IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES AUSTRIA

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 12 12 15 16 20 08 12 05 12 11 14 14 15 15 17

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

09 10 46 47 19 22 11

22 20 34 15 50 08

01 32 35 02 08 37

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

u

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

u

w

Management of cities

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

u

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 25 24 26 29 34 34 30 32 36 34 31 33 38 37 38

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

28 34 32 31 41 33

53 10 57 37 22 11

47 20 24 14 41 47

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

w Starting a business Enforcing contracts

Funding for technological development

Mobile broadband subscribers

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 (%)

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 29 21 21 19 24 25 21 18 21 22 15 09 11 11 13

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

19 45 04 06 27 16

20 16 27 17 54

18 23 12 43 20 10

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

u

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

u

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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