We run practice-oriented research activities with the aim to facilitate new developments in the economy and to fuel our education activities. "Strengthening strengths" is the motto driving HEG Fribourg’s aR&D as it seeks to be perceived as a renowned school of management and gradually to become one of the best business schools in specialized areas.
Within an ever more international landscape, the objectives of aR&D are as follows:
- Promoting framework conditions that foster research;
- Attracting researchers and collaborating with other institutions of international renown;
- Providing quality assurance for research projects and findings;
- Promoting applied research findings to players in the local, national and international economy.
Competence Centers of HEG-FR
Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
The Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation provides cutting-edge, evidence-based insights for developing more innovative mindsets, projects and organizations for seasoned executives, policy makers, founders or students.
Digital Business Center
The Digital Business Center is an interdisciplinary research center for all matters relating to digital transformation. The Center specializes in the field of digital change and how it interacts with the economy and society, and in particular human-machine interaction and the impact of digitalization on society, focusing on business, mobility and health.
Global Business Competence Center for SMEs
The center aims to produce insightful research on how SMEs perform. These insights are highly relevant for both practitioners and leading-edge research scholars in the fields of strategy, business models, internationalization, finance, and entrepreneurship theory.
Market & Observatory Lab
The Market & Observatory Lab supports companies in understanding their environment, improving their decision-making, automating their processes, and creating new services.
Questions? Contact us
Philippe Regnier
Full Professor UAS
+41 26 429 63 97