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World-class research

05.05.2008
Research areas with great potential
Six areas of research will help to raise the Copenhagen Business School onto the international arena. Over the next five years, the selected research areas will receive grants from some of the globalisation funds that have been allocated to CBS.
- The selection of the six research areas helps to strengthen CBS internationally by developing some of the strengths that we already possess. It is not that we will give a lower priority to the scope of our research, but rather that we will make our positions of strength visible, says Alan Irwin, Dean of Research.
Great potential
The research areas cover a wide range and represent the diversity that is characteristic of both the research and education conducted at Copenhagen Business School.
The other research areas will be given the same priority as they have been given until now ? financially as well, because all of the selected research areas will be granted DKK 1 million annually from the globalisation funds.
- The globalisation funds cannot be used to create something brilliant out of nothing, so the selection is a recognition that we have six research areas that already are or have the potential to become world-class areas of research, says Alan Irwin.
He emphasises that to spend the extra globalisation funds on grants for selected research areas is completely in line with CBS? vision and the political plans for the settlement on globalisation.

The six areas of research are:
Financial Risk Management
This research area covers financial risk management in companies and individual investors? asset management and risk considerations with regard to, for example, pension savings.
This research area is headed by the Department of Finance.
Open Innovation
Open innovation has increasingly become an attractive way for companies to gain new inspiration from external sources. This area of research addresses the issues of how open companies should be and when, during the process, it pays to be open.
This research area is headed by the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics.
Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness (SONIC)
A socioeconomic laboratory for institutional competitiveness.
This area of research focuses on how institutions influence national socioeconomic trade.
SONIC is headed by the International Center for Business and Politics.
Translation Processes and Translation Systems
An interdisciplinary research area in the field of translation research that combines humanistic disciplines and high technology.
This area of research is a collaboration between the Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics and the Department of International Culture and Communication Studies.
Center for Strategic Management and Globalization
This research area conducts research on international strategies with particular focus on factors that stimulate and impede knowledge processes in organisations, especially in multinational companies.
Design and Governance of Economic Institutions
This research area focuses on the area of design and good management of a broad number of financial institutions in the borderline area between society and businesses.
This area of research is a collaboration between the Department of Economics, the Center for Corporate Governance, and the Center for Economic and Business Research



Contact: Dean of Research, Alan Irwin, tlf: 38 15 20 20

Last updated by Communications & Marketing 06/05/2008