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Imperial Business Analytics
Imperial Business Analytics brings business-focused academics together with specialists in data science to do cutting-edge research on how business analytics, data, and artificial intelligence will change business and society more generally.
We work with many of the world’s top academics and industry experts and find the ideas, skills and confidence to make better, more informed decisions.
We are at the forefront of data science and business analytics, using cutting-edge technology such as the KPMG Data Observatory, one of the world’s most advanced data visualisation spaces.
W. Maurice Young Centre for Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research
The W. Maurice Young Centre for Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research focuses on understanding innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems, including what makes both a local ecosystem and global research ecosystem flourish with high quality innovation activity.
It brings together thought leaders, policymakers and rising talent to develop research capacity and resources on innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems.
Centre for Entrepreneurship & Family Enterprise
The Centre for Entrepreneurship & Family Enterprise (CEFE) is a globally-recognized research centre dedicated to understanding the particular conditions of family firms. CEFE has put family business on the map as an important scholarly field by engaging leading researchers, contributing to and editing key publications in family business, and hosting the internationally-recognized Theories of Family Enterprise Conference each year.
As a leader in family enterprise curriculum development, CEFE and the Alberta School of Business offer degree programs in Entrepreneurship and Family Business to undergraduate, MBA and PhD students, including a study tour that exposes students to the important role family business and entrepreneurship play in different corporate governance systems throughout the world.
West Coast Research Symposium
Given the importance of entrepreneurship in the global economy, the dramatic increase in demand for entrepreneurship education, and the growing acceptance of entrepreneurship scholarship as an academic discipline, interest in technology entrepreneurship is strong and growing among scholars based on the West Coast.
A primary driver is the proximity of the key universities to major regional clusters of young, technology-based firms in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Los Angeles/Orange County, and San Diego. Yet despite this importance and interest, technology entrepreneurship is a particularly challenging research area because it requires knowledge of both the dynamics of technology and innovation, and their interplay with launching and managing new firms.
Given this research challenge and growing interest in technology entrepreneurship, faculty from three universities – Suresh Kotha (University of Washington), Kathy Eisenhardt (Stanford University), and Alan Meyer (University of Oregon) – initiated the ‘West Coast Research Symposium’ in Seattle in 2003. Since then faculty from additional universities have joined the consortium – Nandini Rajagopalan (University of Southern California) in 2005, Kaye Schoonhoven (University of California, Irvine) in 2007, and most recently, Michael Lounsbury (University of Alberta, Canada) in 2015.
Canadian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility
The Canadian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (CCCSR) is a global research-intensive centre that fosters discovery and innovation in the way business is used to contribute to the social good of communities and their enhanced quality of life. CCCSR engages students, academic leaders and the global business community in the exploration of what tomorrow's business strategies and operations will look like in a world where traditional sector lines are blurring and where businesses are being challenged to assume responsibilities that extend beyond meeting shareholders' financial expectations.
CCCSR focuses on cultivating the inspirational leadership needed to lead today's enterprises, whether private, public or not-for-profit, in a way that creates synergies between business objectives and a positive impact on the community.