IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES HONG KONG SAR

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 04 07 06 10 06 12 05 01 02 05 16 17 14 18 08

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

41 33

03 08 23 03 15 26

32 50 09 27 01

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

w

Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

w

International experience

-

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly skilled personnel

25 08 02 34

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

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 12 07 06 09 06 06 12 07 08 14 03 02 01 01 01

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

10 21 03 23 23 01

04 24 12 14 18 12

04 13 13 16 21 57

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

u

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

u

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 12 04 03 09 05 08 14 09 11 16 22 19 17 45 47

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

-

-

04 37 06 23 15

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

15 14 28 49 64

08 13 02 12

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

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

w

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