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Research Programs

Our research is non-partisan and independent. Professional integrity and objectivity are guiding principles for all research and analysis conducted at the Institute. Read more about our four research programs here.

Firm Competitiveness
Firms’ competitiveness in the business sector of the future hinges on securing competent human capital at the owner, management, and worker level. Currently a combination of structural shifts in techn…
The Economics of Entrepreneurship
In the acclaimed book The Resilient Society: Economics After Covid, the author, Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier, describes how the experiences from the covid-pandemic have highlighted the valu…
Sustainable Energy Transition
Sustainable energy transition aims at drastically reducing fossil fuel consumption in society while simultaneously ensuring resource-efficient and reliable energy supply. In this research program, we…
Institutions, Markets and Enterprise
An economy does not operate in a vacuum – rather, it consists of human beings of flesh and blood, who are affected by laws and rules and have moral values and attitudes towards their fellow human bei…
Taxation and Society
Taxes play a central role in all modern, industrialized societies. They finance public welfare and infrastructure, and they redistribute between groups in the population. Taxes also influence the deci…
Completed: The Economics of the Service Sector
There is a long tradition of research with a service perspective at IFN. In 2006, this research was consolidated into a research program. A series of subjects has been researched since, including the…