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Experimentalism and the �Fourth Industrial Revolution

Luis Fabiano de Assis

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Head of the SmartLab Initiative

Visiting Scholar, Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University

Federal Prosecutor, Chief Research & Data Officer at the Federal Labour Prosecution Office in Brazil

Provocation I

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Context

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53% of global institutional investors respond that "the Lack of ESG Data is the barrier to ESG integration“

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Evolution of ESG Research (CSR, etc...)

History of research focusing on CSR/ESG, etc.

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Clusters of frequent research topics in different timeframes: (a) 1979-2005 (b) 2006-2011 (c) 2012-2015 (d) 2016-2019

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The more ESG questions we have --- when it comes to public policies, corporate strategy, and investment strategy --- the more significant the data needs will be.

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We need data to ask questions, raise hypotheses and test them...�

Data (raw)

Information (data in context)

Knowledge (sufficient information to draw generalizable understanding)

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Actionable Insights: knowledge sufficiently useful to power a decision

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“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.”

�― John Tukey

There´s no perfect data...

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Case – SmartLab Platform and ESG Data�smartlabbr.org

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Case – SmartLab Platform and ESG Data

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Case – SmartLab Platform and ESG Data