How We Can Save (for) Our Future
In the white paper entitled 'We'll Live to 100 - How Can We Afford It?', the challenges facing retirement systems around the world due to increases in longevity were quantified and explor...
White Papers
Managing Investment Risk for the Long Term: Insights on practitioner progress beyond short-term financial considerations
Driven by a new wave of disruptive growth from innovation, automation, and technology-centred processes, financial markets are undergoing a period of rapid change. While some of these cha...
Addressing E-Payment Challenges in Global E-Commerce
Technology has altered the way consumers interact with payment systems. The Internet, digitization, shifting consumer preferences and, in some cases, regulatory reform have accelerated th...
Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation
Despite significant achievements in sustainable energy innovation and market scaling of technologies such as solar, wind energy storage and others, the rate of change is not fast enough. ...
Financing a Forward-Looking Internet for All
This report makes the case that governments should think beyond closing the digital divide to investing in the development of a robust digital ecosystem that can facilitate participation ...
Maximizing the Return on Digital Investments
Digital technologies offer new ways for companies to grow and be more productive. However, it is not completely clear how investments in new technologies impact productivity. This White P...
Industrial Internet of Things: Safety and Security Protocol
The IIoT Safety and Security Protocol generates an understanding of how insurance can facilitate the improvement of IIoT security design, implementation and maintenance practices.
Agile Governance: Reimagining Policy-making in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterized by the unprecedented advances in technology transforming the way individuals and groups across society live, work and interact. New princ...
Blockchain Beyond the Hype
This common sense and practical framework is designed to assist executives in understanding whether blockchain is an appropriate and helpful tool for their business needs. It starts from ...
Artificial Intelligence Collides with Patent Law
AI’s technological advances are expected to disrupt numerous legal frameworks, including various aspects of US patent law.
Behavioural Strategies to Strengthen Health Programmes and Policies Six Behavioural Insights to Increase Impact and Efficiency
This report discusses how behavioural economics can be leveraged to achieve the ends of healthcare practitioners, administrators and programme designers. It explores a handful of the many...
Frameworks for the Future of Electricity: Leading the Transformation Through Multistakeholder Cooperation
In 2016, the World Economic Forum examined three major trends transforming the energy system: decentralization, digitalization and electrification. Building on this work, in 2017 a genera...