There is a clear need for a coordinated, interdisciplinary and international scientific response to global challenges such as COVID-19 and climate change. Although the Fourth Industrial Revolution is accelerating technological innovation, there are new economic, societal and geopolitical hurdles to advancing scientific collaboration in the future. The Global Future Council on Scientific Collaboration aims to identify new forms of public-private collaboration and propose novel ways to mitigate emerging risks to scientific research.
Co-chairs
Council Manager
Alice Hazelton, Programme Lead, Science and Society, World Economic Forum
The pandemic has taught us the importance of scientific collaboration. When the first reports of severe respiratory disease broke late in 2019, the international research community came t...
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s the importance of scientific collaboration. From when first reports of a new disease circulating in Wuhan, China, broke at the very end of 201...
“If you can think about quantum theory without feeling dizzy, you haven’t understood the first thing about it.” This quote from Niels Bohr stems from a conversation he had in Copenhagen, ...
