For more than a decade, Law, Justice and Development (LJD) Week has served as a setting for engaging a global community of law and development professionals on the legal challenges, questions, and solutions for development. The event strives to activate stakeholders from across international organizations, the public and private sectors, academia, and civil society to…
Browsing: 2025
In 2024, innovators around the world filed 3.7 million patent applications, marking a 4.9% increase over 2023 and the fastest year-on-year growth since 2018 (figure 1.1). This robust growth is particularly notable given the challenging economic conditions of the past year. Following a 3% decline in 2019 – at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic…
“One of the most constructive things we can do in our flickering moment of life is to embrace the chance to leave our comfort zones—those dangerous lairs where we learn to languish—and seek out the unfamiliar.”
This results section showcases the leading findings from the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025, highlighting the top-performing economies across income groups and world regions. It identifies who are innovation leaders and who are the innovation overperformers achieving results beyond expectations
Climate TransitionsCommentary Nigeria’s Climate Transition in 2025: Moving from Ambition to Delivery
Travel has the power to connect, inspire and even transform us. Peering over the edge of a crashing waterfall in Newfoundland and ascending sawtooth spires in the Italian Dolomites reveal how wondrous the world can be. But while travel should be a force for good, the past year has reminded us that it also has…
