Research and education at the Business Economics, Strategy and Innovation Research Unit covers a wide range of topics such as: business economics, international companies, strategic management and innovation, political economy and entrepreneurship.
Empirical research in the financial world, business and economics.
Research and teaching at the Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation (MSI), Campus Leuven spans the domains of managerial economics, industrial organization, international business, innovation economics and management, political economy and entrepreneurship.
The department contributes to theoretical and empirical research on the organization of firms, industries and markets in an international context. Research is ...
The scientific research, the capacity building programs and the educational activities are supported by administrative staff of the department. The staff is headed by the manager of the department.
Scientific staff can call upon the management unit for a wide range of support functions :
Characterization of the soil-to-plant transfer of solutes based on formal plantphysiological and soil physicochemical relations. Quantification and process description of the N2O fluxes from soils. Development of terrestrial ecotoxicity tests based on soil microbial activity. Phosphate fixation and phosphate saturation in sandy soils. Dynamics of soil organic matter in improved cropping systems for the tropics. Biological nitrogen fixation in ...
The Ecosystem Management research group focuses on the various aspects of integrated nature conservation and forestry. For example, what can we learn from unmanaged forests and how can natural processes such as wind action, erosion and sedimentation, and herbivory, when combined with focused traditional management techniques, enhance biodiversity in natural areas? What kind of management can ensure that ecosystems function in forests and in ...