The Center's research agenda comprises three closely related research programs: Public Policy and Institutional Design, Evidence-Based Governance and Sustainable Transition, and Innovation and Technological Development. Together, these programs examine the interactions between institutional arrangements, behavioral responses, and social outcomes. Through theoretical analysis and empirical research, the Center addresses the challenges arising from digitalization, technological change, and transformations in governance structures.
1. Public Policy and Institutional Design
This program focuses on issues of public policy and institutional design arising from the development of the digital economy and changes in market structure. As platform-based markets expand and organizational forms evolve, interactions among market competition, corporate governance, and regulatory frameworks have become increasingly complex. Understanding how these interactions shape competitive behavior and institutional outcomes requires systematic and analytically grounded investigation.
Research under this program examines how institutional arrangements and policy instruments affect market behavior, resource allocation, and social welfare. Core topics include competition policy, public resource allocation, environmental and energy policy, and demographic and social structural change. By combining relevant economic theory with empirical evidence, the program analyzes the economic consequences of alternative institutional designs and compares the potential effects of different policy arrangements, contributing to the application of institutional analysis in both academic research and public decision-making.
2. Evidence-Based Governance and Sustainable Transition
This program investigates the real-world effects of institutional design and policy instruments across different governance domains. Using large-scale datasets and empirical analysis, it explores how legal institutions, regulatory mechanisms, and economic incentives influence individual behavior, organizational decision-making, and broader social outcomes.
Research areas include judicial institutions, labor and social protection systems, corporate governance and social responsibility, intellectual property rights and innovation incentives, as well as energy and environmental policy. Through continuous improvement of data collection and maintenance, cross-database integration, and linkage with domestic and international data sources, the program enhances data accessibility and analytical depth. These efforts enable judicial and legal empirical data to be applied more broadly to research in finance, management, and public policy, fostering systematic cross-disciplinary collaboration.
In addition, the program examines the impacts of institutional reforms on firm behavior, organizational performance, and social welfare. By empirically assessing the outcomes of different policy arrangements, it strengthens the analytical foundations of evidence-based research in public decision-making and institutional design.
3. Innovation and Technological Development
This program studies the mechanisms underlying innovation and technological development, focusing on how organizational structure, team size, work arrangements, reward and allocation systems, and workforce diversity shape knowledge production, innovative performance, and technology diffusion.
In the context of rapid technological advancement and evolving modes of knowledge production, innovation is increasingly shaped by multiple layers of behavior, organizational design, and institutional conditions rather than by isolated technological breakthroughs alone. Drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives, the program builds a flexible research framework for the long-term observation and analysis of innovation ecosystems. It systematically reviews international research trends and empirical evidence to compare how different institutional arrangements and collaboration models influence innovation outcomes and technological trajectories.
By integrating diverse research perspectives and methods, this program promotes cross-disciplinary exchange and knowledge integration, enhances the international visibility of the Center's research, and provides forward-looking analytical insights relevant to industrial policy and technology governance.