Golden ages: What we can learn from their rise and fall
From Athens and Song China to Renaissance Italy, we’ve had many eras of scientific discovery and economic growth. What is their common...
Overview of the importance of trade globally and its organization
This lecture will start with a brief discussion of the role of trade in the industrial revolution and until the millennium. There...
Global Strategy
This lecture focuses on the factors that deliver competitive success in today’s globalized and increasingly digitized world
Entrepreneurial Communications
What do you say to investors? How do you speak with your customers and partners? Communication skills are essential for entrepreneurs. Explore...
Earth-wide dangerous challenges: climate and biodiversity
The Earth Summit of 1992 invented and adopted two major United Nations Conventions: The UN Convention on Climate Change, and the UN...
Combining neuroimaging and genetic information using imaging transcriptomics
Combining neuroimaging and genetics information for the study of brain disorders have always been challenging because of the complexity and high dimensionality...
Crisis: When finance no longer supports production
The Bible distinguishes between productive capital and uninvested wealth (mammon). Theorist Joseph Schumpeter distinguished between the ‘real economy’ (production of goods and...
Introduction to Supervised Learning: Linear and Polynomial Regression
This lecture provides a first example of a machine learning algorithm: linear regression. It defines a linear model and its optimization objective...
Polymers with CO2, ROCOP
Ring-opening copolymerisation of CO2 with epoxides, bio-derived epoxides, ROCOP of epoxides with bio-derived acid anhydrides, catalysts, mechanisms
Strategic Optionality: Pathways Through Disruptive Uncertainty
This lecture focuses on how companies survive and thrive in VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environments. Conventional strategy thinking does not work...
Recycling of (bio)polyesters
Different types of recycling, then focus on chemical recycling of the most important types of polyesters and bio-derived polyesters
How to turn a human into a fly
The genetic information of a human cell, its genome, is densely packed into 23 pairs of chromosomes taking two meters of DNA...
Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policy
The lecture will introduce the political economy of food and agricultural policy with cross-country comparisons to stimulate discussion of differing conditions and...
Obsessive-compulsive Disorder: cortico-striatal alterations and beyond
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a disabling condition affecting between 1.5-3% of the world population. Despite being a disorder comparatively less studied...
Introduction to Machine Learning: Overview of Supervised, Unsupervised, and Reinforcement Learning
Machine learning has emerged as a transformative technology in the last decade. This lecture explains what machine learning is via examples of...
Lessons Identified / Lessons (Not) Learned: Why Can’t we Get It Right?
Crises events are almost always unique (you should not have the same crises for a second time) but the reasons for the...
