Our research focuses on climate action, digital transformation, poverty and inequality and their impact on human and economic sustainable development. Through our disciplinary and multidisciplinary research, our ambition is to contribute to the academic debate and to societal policy and innovation solutions at all stages of the policy process: from the setting of a policy agenda to the delivery and evaluation of public policy.
Areas of Focus
UNU-MERIT’s research focuses on two specific main areas:
We have also launched four Comprehensive Innovation for Sustainable Development Teams (CI4SD - link missing) which combine our long-run expertise on innovation and governance with a new focus on computational innovation.