Moving fast with frontier technologies
A pioneering index to measure countries’ preparedness to embrace and adapt frontier technologies.
A pioneering index to measure countries’ preparedness to embrace and adapt frontier technologies.
Substantive progress is needed on specific sustainable industrialization indicators.
Countries can pick up their pace with policies based on reliable industrial statistics.
Differences between data sources make it challenging to identify the leaders and laggards in the adoption of industrial robots.
Policy reforms need to address low financial returns which hamper the contribution of FDI to sustainable development.
Novel plant-level data from Germany sheds light on the current status and the potential determinants of robot use in manufacturing factories.
Innovation can provide swift remedies to the COVID-19 linked recession. Policy should contain incentives to innovate in the long-term.