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Terabytes of treasure – cities unlocking new opportunities for services and SMEs

Subnational governments are sitting on a treasure trove of data. From waste and transport to local taxes, huge quantities of data are produced daily. This data can be incredibly powerful – helping city administrations make services more targeted and effective.

Are rates hikes raising regional inequality?

Across the world, policy interest rates have been steadily increasing over the past year for the first time in a long time. In the UK, the last time Bank Rate increased by 3 percentage points in a single calendar year. But what do rising interest rates mean for places?

Digital SMEs: Separating the chit and the chatGPT

ChatGPT and other large AI-based “generative language models” are taking the world – and our news feeds – by storm. As Beta versions of the software are made available to the general public, observers are getting excited about the capabilities and the vast array of potential applications. But what does this mean for small businesses?

After the Boom? COVID-19 and European City Labour Markets

18 February 2021 Pawel Adrjan and Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp

Berlin, London, Madrid and Paris are engines of productivity growth that have long been magnets for young and skilled workers. COVID-19 has brought this boom to a halt. Indeed job posting data offer an unparalleled view of how the pandemic has transformed labour markets in Europe’s four largest capitals at the start of 2021.

An imagined country

08 January 2021 Lamia Kamal-Chaoui and Peter Wostner

In the early stages of the pandemic, the focus was squarely on cities. Urban density and shared spaces contributed to surging case numbers and deaths: before June, the rise in excess deaths was more than three times higher in large metropolitan areas compared to remote regions. But rural areas still reeled from the economic impacts. Businesses closed to comply with containment measures, trade slowed, and tourism activity all but ceased.

Going local in a global crisis

07 January 2021 Anna Rubin

Going local in a global crisis – COVID-19 has unleashed the worst jobs crisis in a generation. The latest figures from the OECD’s Economic Outlook are striking. Compared to the last quarter of 2019, hours worked fell over 15% in the Euro Area, the United Kingdom and Canada in the second quarter of 2020, and by over 10% in the US.

Preparing the SME workforce for the fourth industrial revolution

19 September 2018 Iris Arbel

The globalisation of the world’s economy, jointly with the digitisation and automation of traditional production, has become both an opportunity and a challenge for smaller companies and nations – a particularly “human” one. For small and medium enterprises (SMEs), current employees and work forces would have to learn to operate …

It is our responsibility to make the future inclusive and sustainable

16 September 2018 Nicolas Hazard

Will all workers be displaced by machines? As history has shown, some jobs are destroyed and others are created. The future lies in closer collaboration between humans and machines. In this context, a new generation of entrepreneurs is ongoing, innovative and tied to strong values. Conscious by our planet’s situation, having grown up in a world punctuated by crisis, they have decided to act and create startups that have social and environmental positive impact.

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what do you see? by Yasmin Morais

Thriving youth in cities: bringing community and nature to life

Never waste a good waste crisis: Paris and the circular economy

Delay now, pay later – why SMEs must not put off investing in innovation and greening

Terabytes of treasure – cities unlocking new opportunities for services and SMEs

Empowering women to power the green transition

Everyone’s cup of tea: Finding the right blend for responsible data innovation

Ask not, “what our city can do to foster tourism, but what tourism can do for our city?”

Industrial regions on the way to climate neutrality?

Different strokes for different folks: a diverse scale-up population needs new policies