The key macro indicators on AI, future tech, the labor market and employability – the data behind why we exist. For us, everything centers on one question: How do people and organizations stay employable when technology changes faster than ever before?
While you read this page, companies around the world are filing new inventions and AI research grows by the second. Those who shape things don't wait.
Five estimates. Your gut feeling vs. reality.
The live counters are illustrative projections: documented annual figures (WIPO, DPMA/EPO, arXiv, Stanford AI Index) extrapolated evenly across the year – they show magnitude and pace, not real-time measurement. The time travel uses inflation-adjusted data for 2016–2025 (AI Index via Our World in Data, constant 2021 US$); from 2026 onwards clearly marked scenario assumptions. The reality check compares your guess against these sources (±30% counts as a hit). All sources are listed in the Sources section – and in our programmes you learn to build such models yourself.
The EDF consortium “Secure Digital Military Mobility” has officially launched — 14 partners from 10 countries, with our partner AFTS on board. Next stop: the MCCE customs workshop in Prague, 16–18 June.
More in our partner news →Our core theme: How do people and organizations stay employable when skills change faster than ever before?
Change destroys and creates work at the same time. What matters is which side you're on.
AI has arrived everywhere. Value only emerges for those who truly embed it in their processes.
The scale of the bets on AI – and the expected return.
Knowledge and IP rights are the raw material of the coming decades.
Structural change is tangible here – and creates an acute need for qualification.
What comes after today's AI – and what it costs to run it.
Innovation without governance tips into risk – exactly what we train for.
On the homepage, a real-time cockpit projects patents, research and investment as an illustrative extrapolation of these public annual figures – a feel for the pace at which the world is changing.
To the Live Cockpit →Note: Figures come from the public reports cited, are rounded and in some cases forecasts or scenarios. Different sources use different definitions (e.g. patent applications vs. grants). We update this page regularly.