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Competitiveness Lab
Competitiveness is widely accepted as the key driver of a country’s prosperity and the well-being of its citizens. By mobilizing resources and commitments across a broad spectrum of stake...
Shaping the Future of Construction
The Construction industry plays a key role for governments in both growing and mature economies. The sector creates new jobs, drives economic growth, and provides solutions to address soc...
A New Vision for Arab Employment
The MENA region has the highest youth unemployment rate in the world (29%, 2012), a rate that is expected to increase at the current socio-economic pace. In light of long-term economic as...
Shaping the Future of Urban Development & Services
Today, cities occupy just 2.6% of the earth’s crust, but are home to more than 50% of the world’s population, generate more than 80% of the world’s GDP and use 75% of the world’s natural ...
Shaping the Future of Collaborative Innovation in Chemicals and Materials
The Collaborative Innovation Project is a collection of initiatives promoting in-novation in the chemicals industry and beyond through positioning materials and processes developed by the...
Future of Retail
Context: Digital transformation of the Retail for Consumer Industries (i.e. Food, Beverage & Personal Care; Apparel, Accessories & Footwear, Hardline, Consumer Electronics...
Oil and Gas Climate Initiative
The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) is a bottom-up, voluntary, industry-driven initiative, which will enable the Oil and Gas industry to work collaboratively to address climate conc...
Fostering Effective Energy Transition
This project is part of the Global System Initiative on the Future of Energy and has two legs: A global energy index and a dialogue series. It builds from the current Global Energy Archi...
Digital Europe - Building a Pan-European Ecosystem for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
With this project, the World Economic Forum aims to build a Pan-European Ecosystem for Innovation and Entrepreneurship based on a network between Europe's many vibrant digital innovation ...
Partnering for Sustainable Energy Innovation
The issueThis project – part of the Global System Initiative on the Future of Energy – aims to substantially accelerate innovation in sustainable energy. This is critical to tackling envi...
Extractives and the SDGs: Strengthening Capacity and Collaboration for Agenda 2030
This global partnership initiative aims to enhance the contribution of the mining, metals, oil and gas (extractives) sectors to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustain...
Future of Oil & Gas
The Oil & Gas industry is transforming. New frontiers of exploration and production have boosted the scale, risk and complexity of projects in the sector. Moreover, a deficit in s...