STRENGTH

WEAKNESS

OPPORTUNIT
Y

THREAT/
CHALLENGES
(CROSS SECTORAL)

ECONOMIC
FACTORS

- Effective
Leadership

- Weak IPR
protection

- Open-to-Door
Policy

- Weak
financial
policies

- Strong FDI
presence
- An emerging
private sector

- Inequality in
increase of
urban & rural
cities

- Strengthen
the
institutional
regime and
improve
governance

- Increasingly
competitive
and
complicated
global
environment

- Strengthen
the financial
factor

- Imbalance
between
growth and the
environment

- Establishing a
monitoring
system to
enhance
government
accountability
& transparency

INNOVATIVE
SYSTEM

- Increase in
the R&D
investment
- Well
established
state key labs
& techno parks

- Weak
indigenous
innovation
capacity

- Improve
efficiency &
quality of
domestic R&D

- Low
productivity of
R&D spending

INFORMATIO
N
INFRASTRUC
TURE

- Strong
capability in
ICT hardware
manufacturing
& exports

- Lack of clear
& efficient
regulatory
framework

- Risk of
increasing
regional &
rural-urban
development
gaps
-- Knowledge
Divide
-- Income
disparity

- Lack of
venture capital
- Improvement
in ICT access

- Increasing
energy
constraint

-- Digital divide
- Improve the
regulatory
regime
- Expand
access for rural
& local
communities

-Discrepancies
in health &
medical care