The BiS Platforms are CBS’ concept for engaging in knowledge production that is based on context-driven, problem-focused and interdisciplinary research that deals with the complex societal and business problems facing our region.

BiS Platforms will enhance interdisciplinary collaboration at CBS and thereby enable CBS to address societal challenges that cross academic “borders”. BiS Platforms will ensure that our graduating students have access to research-based knowledge in areas of regional and global significance.

By dealing innovatively with complex societal and business problems, BiS platforms aims to attract and engage top researchers from CBS and elsewhere but also students, business leaders, and policy makers.
BiS Platforms have a time horizon of 5 years with regular evaluation of performance and success criteria.

So far, the following BiS platforms have been approved.

Public-Private
Many contemporary matters of public concern - political, economic, social and cultural - are no longer seen as amenable to being solved in terms of a traditional divide between public and private actors and sectors. These pressing issues are represented as too complex to be solved by single agencies, regardless of whether they are public or private.

One of the dominant themes in contemporary policy debates is the need to find novel solutions to these problems that mobilise the capacities of all sectors and institutional actors - public, private, and third, without making a priori assumptions about who or what agents are best placed to secure what purposes. The core aim of the CBS Public-Private Business in Society Platform is to help mobilise, foster and develop society wide solutions to these and related matters of concern.

Sustainability
Sustainability is one of contemporary society’s grand challenges arising from the complex interaction between environmental, social and economic development and encompassing a diverse array of issues, e.g. environmental pollution, poverty, climate change, human rights violations, lack of corporate accountability, corruption and financial inequality and other effects of increased globalisation that change the way people live and the planet develops.

The CBS Sustainability Platform’s overall research, education and outreach agenda is to question and challenge how the interplay between society’s environmental, social and economic activities is influenced by business and is influencing business.