IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES GERMANY

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 25 22 21 20 26 14 17 17 15 14 04 05 06 07 07

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

10 14 50 12 25 18 02

19 16 25 28 58 14

03 40 43 04 04 43

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

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

u

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 27 28 25 20 32 17 16 23 16 21 40 45 43 43 47

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

54 57 44 17 30 28

51 12 45 42 27 05

09 34 30 01 33 34

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

w

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile broadband subscribers

w

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

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 16 23 23 27 28 11 15 15 15 20 17 20 20 19 18

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

21 36 37 08 30 18

29 14 35 51 40

51 05 42 49 11 13

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

w

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

w Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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