Centre for Business Research

Description

The Centre for Business Research, established in 1994, conducts interdisciplinary, evidence-based research on the determinants of sustainable economic development and growth.

The Centre’s research has pioneered new methods of data collection and analysis of enterprise and innovation, novel approaches to macroeconomic modelling, and original datasets tracking legal and regulatory changes and their economic impact over time. Current projects are examining inequality in cities, the effects of the structural adjustment policies of the International Monetary Fund, macroeconomic projections for the UK economy, social rights and poverty alleviation, law and finance in the BRICS, the role of universities in knowledge exchange, business development in the Cambridge region, and the relationship between contract forms and innovation in construction and infrastructure projects.

The Centre’s areas of specialisation include the construction and analysis of large and complex datasets on small and medium-sized enterprises and innovation, longitudinal analysis of regulatory change affecting business firms, and fieldwork-based studies of corporate governance and organisational practice.

The Centre has made a significant contribution to the development of research methods and theory in the analysis of law and finance. The Centre’s research is disseminated to and used by managers, policy-makers and regulators in numerous countries.

Its research draws on expertise in University of Cambridge departments ranging from the Faculties of Economics, Law, and Human, Social and Political Science, the Departments of Geography, Land Economy, Politics and International Studies and Engineering, to Cambridge Judge Business School.

The impact of the Centre’s research on policy and practice has been independently assessed and verified (see for example Economic and Social Research Council’s Impact Case Study News).

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

1994

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University of Cambridge
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