This research group analyses dilemmas, problems and challenges in business, economics, and finance in the context of a globalized world.  The research lines of the group include sustainability, finance, social economics, international business, and trade, through which Faculty contribute to solving problems based on economic analysis and its determinants, weighing in impacts of institutional investors and the design of their debt securities, types of regional governance, innovation in Latin American exporting firms, and responsible business conduct, inter alia.

This research group has designed a road map to advance knowledge and applied research in the development of food products focused on the innovative capacity of interdisciplinary gastronomic designs in science, culture, management, and services. Creativity in the culinary preparations developed at a Food-Lab with the advances in food science leads to the development of products with nutritional and sensory characteristics in an environment of food security in Colombia, and knowledge and dissemination of our gastronomic potential in local and international contexts.

This research group seeks to contribute to the generation of scientific knowledge in the field of innovation and strategy. The group aims to gain a better understanding of the corporate business reality on these issues and the design of strategies that contribute to improving corporate competitiveness and sustainability. To promote these objectives, the group conducts research in three lines: Innovation and Knowledge Management; Organizations and Strategy; and Marketing and Consumer Behavior. The specific topics studied include: innovation culture; Innovation and prototyping processes; Open innovation (models, methodologies and tools); Innovation by design (models, methodologies and tools); Innovation and business sustainability; knowledge management (identification, adaptation, socialization, transfer, creation and use of knowledge – with models, methodologies and tools); Relationship between knowledge management, innovation and business sustainability; Neurosciences applied to business activity – especially in the field of marketing and consumer behavior.  

This research Group focuses on the development and dissemination of knowledge in operations and supply chain management. The goal of the group is to provide support tools for decision-making processes in logistic decisions with impact on academia and corporate contexts, as well as training, commercial and senior consulting services.