Industrial policy

Keeping Options Open in the Deep Ocean

Advances in deep-ocean exploration are bringing questions of interpretation, governance and collective choice into sharper focus.

Multilateralism as an Innovation and Development Tool: Lessons from a UNESCO Chair on STI Policies for Latin America

The second piece in our UN Day series looks at how multilateral cooperation builds knowledge and policy capabilities in Latin America.

Multi-level Governance for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Governance: A Broad Synopsis

Disaster risk governance is a critical issue that requires a multi-level approach to effectively reduce the risk of disasters and enhance resilience.

Antimicrobial Resistance in Water Systems

A One Health Imperative in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings

Causal Machine Learning for policy evaluation

Develops a causal machine learning framework to evaluate how public policies influence countries’ export specialization

Empirical Analysis on innovation capabilities and industrial dynamics in European rural areas

Develops new data-driven measures of innovation capabilities in European rural areas by combining firm, skills, patent, and regional data

Nested sovereignty: Necropolitics and the gendered burden of unpaid care and domestic work in sub-Saharan Africa

UN University rector Tshilidzi Marwala: You can’t regulate AI without fully understanding it

In Geneva Solutions, UNU Rector Tshilidzi Marwala says lawmakers need AI literacy to regulate AI effectively.

The changing geography of the international diffusion of technological knowledge

Examines the evolving geography of international technological knowledge diffusion over the last four decades using multiple patent-based indicators.

New Research Report: AI Systems as Digital Public Goods

New UNU–ADB–UN ODET study: Openness alone isn’t enough, AI systems need to deliver public value, accountability, safeguards, and local relevance.