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The Dubai Innovation Index was conceptualized in 2015 in order to help Dubai on its way to becoming the world’s most innovative city in the years that followed. Its main aim was to foster a culture of innovation within Dubai's business community, to evaluate the city's innovation performance and to identify key strengths as well as areas where it needs to improve. The key findings of the latest report can be viewed here. The Dubai...

The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)  evaluated and compared 180 countries according to their performance in protecting human health from environmental harm and safeguarding ecosystems according to internationally established targets. The project is led by  Yale University  and  Columbia University  in collaboration with the  World Economic Forum. Within two policy objectives - Environmental...

Founded in 1963, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management-consulting firm. BCG helps corporations and other organizations to innovate and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. It annually releases a ranking of the most innovative companies around the world, which can be viewed here. BCG’s annual ranking of the most innovative companies uses a survey of senior executives representing a wide variety of industries...

Bloomberg is a major global provider of financial news and information, including financial data, trading news and analyst coverage, as well as general news and sports. Its services, which include its own platform, television, radio and magazines, offer professional analysis tools for financial professionals. The company annually releases rankings of the most innovative countries. The current rankings are published on the company’s...

The annual Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), produced by Germanwatch, the New Climate Institute, and Climate Action Network, is an instrument designed to enhance transparency in international climate politics. The 2018 index evaluates the climate protection performance of 56 countries and for the first time includes the EU as the only supranational entity, which are together responsible for more than 90 percent of global...

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine. The rankings feature research-intensive universities and use 13 performance indicators grouped into 5 areas, including Teaching, Research, Citations, International Outlook, and Industry Income. The 2018 rankings give a bigger picture than ever before, as more data from more institutions was...

The QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The company not only publishes an overall ranking of universities, but also lists them by academic disciplines, such as, for example, Engineering and Technology. The rankings can help prospective students make informed decisions regarding the choice of university and subject. The complete university rankings can be viewed on...

The Times Higher Education World University Ranking is considered to be one of the most widely observed university rankings together with the QS World University Rankings and is praised for continuously improving its methodology. In this analysis, particular emphasis is placed on rankings concerning the engineering sciences, which can be viewed on the official website of the organization. The evaluation is essentially based on five...

The QS World University Rankings are one of the most widely acknowledged and popular top-university rankings, which has resulted in several nominations. Their methodology continues to enjoy a remarkably consistent framework. The topic of energy production is covered by many degree courses relating to the engineering technologies, whose rankings are published on the organization webpage. Their methodology uses six metrics to capture...

Every year the international research organization Global Footprint Network develops and publishes the National Footprint Accounts (NFAs), revealing countries’ ecological resource use and resource capacity. The 2017 Edition of the National Footprint Accounts covers nearly 150 countries from 1961 to 2013, the year for which the most recent data is available. The calculations in the National Footprint Accounts are primarily based on...