The IMD World Competitiveness Ranking measures the competitiveness, or the ability of nations to generate prosperity, of 63 countries. The competitiveness of a country is important, as it predicts future growth. In the eleventh episode of Itinera Talks Simon Ghiotto and Arturo Bris, head of the IMD World Competitiveness Center, discuss the Belgian performance on the ranking and learnings from h…

From vineyards in France to a port in Greece, from a football club in Roeselare (Belgium) to a high speed train between Budapest and Belgrade, from Volvo Cars and Trucks in Sweden to the electricity supply in Portugal… Chinese investors have their fingers in many pies. Not so in Eandis though. A proposal by the Chinese state-owned enterprise ‘State Grid’ to buy 14% of the Eandis shares ca…

Our western societies are going through a massive shake-up. The globalisation of the economy is leading to a multipolar, complex world. After the first two industrial revolutions, one in the 1780s involving the sciences, textile-making techniques, metalworking and rail transport, and the other from the 1880s onwards, with the advent of the internal combustion engine, electricity, cars and aircr…