Research Centers

Aalborg

IKE Group

Aalborg University, Denmark

 

The group was established in 1977 and has gradually evolved into a long-term research program in innovation studies and industrial economics. It also run a resource page on Innovation Studies, entitled Inno Resource.

BETA

Bureau d'Economie Th?©orique et Appliqu?©e (Research Laboratory in Theoretical and Applied Economics)

Universit?© Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg

 

Created in 1972 and “associate” member of the French National Center for Scientific Research since 1985, BETA is considered to be one of the strategic French research centers in the field of “economics and management science”.

CRIC

ESRC Center for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC)

The University of Manchester & UMIST, England

 

The Center for Research on Innovation and Competition was created by the ESRC in 1997 to form a center of excellence, in Manchester, at the interface of management and social sciences. 

Its aim is to contribute to the fundamental understanding of the complex issues that underline and link together innovation and competitiveness.

DRUID

Danish Research Unit For Industrial Dynamics

Copenhagen Business School (Institute for Industrial Economics and Strategy); Aalborg University (Department of Business Studies): Denmark

 

The objective of DRUID is to contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of technical, structural and institutional change at the level of the single firm as well as at the inner-firm level and the level of the economy as a whole.  Special attention is given to fundamental trends such as the growing importance of knowledge for competitiveness, the information technology revolution, the ecological challenge and the internationalization of the economy.

IIASA

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Laxenburg, Austria

 

Since 1972, IIASA has been initiating and supporting collaborative and individual research in relation to the problems of modern societies arising from scientific and technological development.  By providing science-based insight into complex global problems, IIASA strives to conduct first class innovative research that will give global societies the insight to better master their endeavors.

LEM

Laboratory of Economics and Management

St. Anna's School of Advanced Studies, Italy

 

Sponsors and hosts research in the areas of economics, organization theory and empirics, management and corporate strategies, public choice and other aspects of public policy, innovation studies, environment, industrial history and theory, cognitive and artificial sciences. LEM welcomes interdisciplinary endeavors and favor dialogue between empirical investigations, theoretical developments and normative contributions - concerning both corporate management and public policies.

MPI at Jena

Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung Von Wirtschaftssystemen (Max Planck Institute For Research into Economic Systems)

Jena, Germany

 

Max Planck institutes specialize in supplementing university research by specializing in taking up new,  innovative fields of research.

Merit

Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology

Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht University, Netherlands

 

MERIT is a research institute based out of Maastrict University, the Netherlands.
Our research focuses on the economics of technological change and innovation.

MOHN

Center for the Study of Management, Organization and Human Nature

Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University

 

MOHN is a resource for those interested in investigating and understanding management and organization issues from a perspective which fully takes into account our evolved human nature.  MOHN is looking to share insights between the study of management and organization on the one hand and the study of evolutionary psychology, human sociobiology, and human ethology on the the other.

Santa Fe Institute

Santa Fe Institute

New Mexico, USA

 

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is devoted to creating a new kind of scientific research community, emphasizing multidisciplinary collaboration and focusing on what has come to be known as studies of complexity and complex adaptive systems. SFI seeks to break down the barriers between traditional disciplines, to spread its ideas and methodologies to other institutions, and to encourage the practical application of its results.

SPRU

Science and Technology Policy Research

University of Sussex at Brighton, England

 

SPRU is one of the world leaders in policy research on science, technology and innovation (STI) and its wider economic, social and environmental implications.  SRRU’s mission is to deepen the understanding of the place of STI in the global economy for the benefit of government, business and society.

Associations

Industry Studies Organization

 

COMPASSS Research Group

 

International Schumpeter Society

 

Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE)

 

Association For Evolutionary Economics

 

Research Network on Organizational Routines

 

The European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy