Quantum computing and quantum technologies hold significant potential to improve a wide range of applications and tasks. At the same time, recent technological progress in this field, also referred to as the 'Second Quantum Revolution', is threatening to break the encryption we use to keep our...

Plastic pollution is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century that requires innovative and varied solutions. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this book brings together interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder perspectives exploring challenges and opportunities for...

The coronavirus pandemic illustrated how rapidly the global environment could be disrupted on many levels but also drive an acceleration in others. Business leaders are grappling with dysfunctional business models that are ill-equipped to manage the disruptive environment of growing artificial...