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Since the COVID-19 pandemic forced changes across the global business landscape, the labor market has transformed drastically and will evolve even more, driven by technological innovation and the risk of recession. These swift changes have boosted demand for gig workers. Frost & Sullivan expects the gig economy to become a workforce mainstay. Th...

15 Oct 2025  |  Global  |  Market Research

Knowledge Economy Transformations, 2025–2035

Leveraging Human Capital, Digital Infrastructure, and AI (HiDiAi) to Shape Future Knowledge Economies

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The global knowledge economy is going through a decisive phase of transformation. In the next decade, growth will depend on the combination of human talent, digital infrastructure, and artificial intelligence (AI). These three components form Frost & Sullivan’s HiDiAi framework. From productivity changes driven by AI to population shifts and the qu...

Across various industrial sectors, digitalization has rapidly developed, utilizing several existing and emerging digital technologies, including AI, Big Data analytics (BDA), IoT, machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), robotics, and automation. While the chemicals industry was relatively slow to adopt these technologies, the tran...

This research study identifies key solution providers that support the digital transformation of the waste recycling and circular economy industry. It analyzes the top trends and growth opportunities emerging from this space, noting the regional differences in adoption technologies. The key factors driving and restraining the growth of this market ...

This study examines the global distribution transformer market, analyzing demand drivers, technological trends, and competitive dynamics across key regions. It explores how rising electricity consumption, grid modernization programs, and the integration of distributed energy resources are reshaping replacement and new‑build requirements for distrib...

The growing global care-dependent population, which includes children, the elderly, the sick, and the disabled, will create a rapidly burgeoning market for care economy-related services. Frost & Sullivan estimates that the global care-dependent population will reach between 3.2 billion and 4.6 billion persons by 2035, representing a sizeable share ...

Natural resource scarcity, the harmful environmental impacts of emissions, and discarded materials in landfills and water bodies are pressing global challenges. The lighting industry significantly contributes to eWaste and pollution, including greenhouse gases and used materials from parts. This challenge warrants adopting circular economy principl...

The labor market is constantly evolving and introducing newer forms of employment, such as the retired workforce, platform workers, crowd workers, and temporary workers. Changing market dynamics have shifted companies’ focus from hiring and training to leveraging non-permanent talent as this model offers optimal flexibility and lower fixed costs. ...

The global economy is undergoing rapid transformation with trade and supply chain reorientation, the digital reshaping of businesses and economies, and sustainability-linked policy shifts. These transformative trends will alter the long-term global investment and economic landscape and influence the nature of economic growth cycles across countries...