Institutes and competence centers

Institutes

Our institutes provide consultancy services to companies and organizations alongside teaching and research activities.

The Finance Institute specializes in financial management. Our areas of interest cover corporate investment and finance, together with topics linked to crypto-currencies, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), robo-advisers and, more generally, recent developments in fintech.

Food Ecosystem Institute

The aim of the Food Ecosystem Institute is to assist the entire Food Ecosystem to transition to the Industry 4.0 era and put in place sustainable development strategies.

Institute Social and public innovations

We are committed to supporting organizations in the fields of public management and sustainable development, through innovative approaches that respond to the challenges facing society today and tomorrow.

Institute Small and medium entreprises

Our training, research projects and advice are aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises, from their start-up phase and throughout development, through innovation or internationalization projects, to takeover.

Competence centers

Our Competence centers run practice-oriented research activities with the aim to facilitate new developments in the economy and to fuel our education activities.

Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

The Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CEI) provides cutting-edge, evidence-based insights for developing more innovative mindsets, projects and organizations for seasoned executives, policy makers, founders or students in Fribourg, Switzerland and beyond.

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

Professeur HES ordinaire / Responsable Research & Development

+41 26 429 63 97

Alfred Münger