Countries are struggling to keep up with the pace and scale of change. With their flexible, cooperative outlook, cities are perfectly poised to take over.
If a machine could design the perfect city, what would it look like?
Science is a key to hope—and solving grand challenges, whether in water purification or in other areas such as energy generation and storage or healthcare.
As the world mobilizes to keep global warming below 2°C, the pace of innovation is heating up to deliver on that promise. Carbon pricing is playing a major role.
Two landmark addresses, one by Chinese president Xi Jinping and the other by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, were the clearest sign yet of a turn in the tide, says Samir Saran.
What are key trends in the global innovation and entrepreneurship landscape that we should be excited about?
China is projected to have 22.5 million cases of Alzheimer's by 2050.
Despite a closing of the gender gap in labour force participation rates over the past 25 years, women continue to be under-represented in entrepreneurship. This needs to change.
This set of policies can help make globalisation more inclusive.
Preparing ourselves for what the 4IR will bring tomorrow must begin with education today. But with our destination so unclear, navigating our way forward is no small feat.
How should law and regulation cope with fast changing technologies and industries?
The teen brain is "nothing short of miraculous" as a learning machine.
Smart societies are the future but we must establish standards and ideals to aim for.
Alzheimer's disease is spreading fast in the Middle East and North Africa, but there are social barriers to be overcome before it can be properly addressed.
David Dean explores how we can accelerate the digital economy in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.
