Spurred by patent and trademark applications in China, global innovation flies high
G lobal innovation is soaring as the 2015 edition of a United Nations agency on intellectual property report reveals that 2.9 million patent...
Mining Sector Can Help Achieve Sustainable Development Goals
Large-scale mining has the potential to play a critical role in helping to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in resource-rich countries, according to...
The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2016
A diverse range of breakthrough technologies, including batteries capable of providing power to whole villages, “socially aware” artificial intelligence and new generation solar panels,...
Shaping the Future of Construction: A Breakthrough in Mindset and Technology
The construction industry has been slower than most to adopt technological innovations, and wary of modernizing strategies and processes. In the US, labour productivity...
Can We Predict Real Estate Bubbles?
Behavioural decision-making is key to understanding asset price dynamics, asset cycles and the macroeconomic interdependencies. The most destructive cycles are those in which asset...
Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Ubiquitous, mobile supercomputing. Intelligent robots. Self-driving cars. Neuro-technological brain enhancements. Genetic editing. The evidence of dramatic change is all around us and it’s happening...
Next wave of industry to fuel China’s growth
China today faces an inflection point: the ingredients that propelled its rapid expansion and unprecedented development over the past 30 years won’t fuel its...
Football Finance 2015
Fuelled by the impact of the first year of a new broadcast rights cycle, Premier League clubs generated record revenue of £3.26 billion in...
A world where “nobody is left behind” remains a distant prospect
Talent, not capital, will be the key factor linking innovation, competitiveness and growth in the 21st century, and we must each understand better the...
Middle classes from emerging economies shaping travel and tourism industry
The rise of travel and tourism has shown significant resilience globally. Despite slow economic growth in advanced economies and geopolitical tensions in some regions,...