Founded in 2003, CEGE - Research Centre in Management and Economics - is the research centre that frames the academic research conducted within Católica Porto Business School.
CEGE is dedicated to advancing economics and management knowledge, emphasising scientific excellence with societal and policy impact. CEGE prioritises sustainable, human-centric, and innovative solutions to address the critical challenges of our era.
CEGE is specialised in three key research areas:
- Markets and Policy;
- Service Management and Performance;
- Ethics and Sustainability;
CEGE is registered, accredited, and financed by the Portuguese national funding agency for Science, Research and Technology (FCT) through the Strategic Project UIDB/00731/2020. Other sources of financing include specific project funding as well as resources from Católica Porto Business School.
Research at CEGE is intertwined with the strategic goals of Católica Porto Business School of global education and business interrelations. That is why CEGE produces research generally in connection with researchers from international schools, focuses on international and well-recognised outlets for its research, and bridges with four knowledge transfer centres primarily focused on practice-oriented research:
- S.Lab (Service Management Lab)
- LEAD.Lab (Leadership Lab)
- INSURE.Hub (INnovation in SUstainability and REgeneration Hub)
- Ethics Forum
These knowledge transfer centres develop applied research in close cooperation with the business community and non-profit organisations, and work as forums of dialog between research and practice.
Fundamental research at CEGE is also linked with the consultancy activities undertaken by CEGEA (Consulting Unit in Management and Applied Economics). CEGEA was founded in 1991 and combines research capacity and academic independence with a consulting firm's attention to customer characteristics. CEGEA has a well-known and well-established relationship with local and international businesses and organisations.
The linkages between these two extremes in a research continuum are evident: Fundamental research feeds consultancy, and consultancy provides data and use cases that can be transformed into research outputs. Our knowledge transfer centres lie in the middle of this continuum, therefore, our structures to undertake practice-oriented research.
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