Over the last few decades, the scale and nature of industrial transformations have been quite substantial generating new solutions with inherent technical, operational, and organisational complexities. Modern industrial systems in both public and private sectors are engineered and operated under...

During the last four hundred years, different types of Epidemics have wreaked havoc on the health, psyche, politics and economies of regions, nations and continents.Epidemics are major Geopolitical Risks because: i) They can have significant negative social, economic, psychological, political...

The European Union (EU) promotes collaboration across functions and borders in its funded innovation projects, which are seen as complex collaboration to co-create knowledge. This requires the engagement of multiple stakeholders throughout the duration of the project. To probe complexity in...

Our research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that a higher incidence of solar eclipses is associated with higher social complexity and complex thinking in premodern societies. We construct a novel dataset of solar eclipses' incidence at the ethnic-group level, bringing...