The World Economic Forum presents its annual report (Global Competitiveness Report 2018) where the WEF experts analyze global, regional, and national economies with the aim of identifying key factors that affect productivity. The analysis is done using a new tool for assessing national economic productivity — Global Competitiveness Index 4.0.

The publication by AppDynamics studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis on technologies, IT departments, and digital transformation of companies.

The university as a regional economic powerhouse.

The world is trying to understand the impact caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic and uncertainty still remains, in this issue of the annual «Trend Vision 2020. Russia» report experts talk about trends, signals of change and how to analyze them, in order to make the future, in which this world crisis is not the last one, to be not a frightening «black box», but a platform for exciting experiments for successful brands and companies focused on long-term sustainability.