A Brain Capital Grand Strategy: toward economic reimagination

Abstract

The time is now to catalyze a Grand Strategy. Brain Capital can be a key component in shaping economic resilience?linked to our digitalized, globalized, complex, and interconnected yet fragile global economy. Brain Capital resonates with existing efforts and helps build long-term globaleconomic recovery that promotes brain health and brain skills helping address urgent challenges caused and exacerbated by COVID. Current policies, concepts and economic measures neither account for the neuroscientific drivers of productivity nor the increasingly brain skills focused workforce demands of the twenty-first century.Furthermore, current approaches are insufficient to combat the rising complexity of challenges brought about by COVID. The preservation and development of Brain Capital positively impacts educational, social, health, institutional, and economic dimensions at the individual andcollective level. Hence, it should be considered a strategic resource for a country, corporations, and public policies in a brain-based world.