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The Economica Institute of Economic Research stands for substantive expertise and methodological competence in applied economic research. Coupled with a high degree of institutional networking, Economica performs location-based economic research at all territorial levels with a pronounced policy orientation. The institute aims to generate new insights regarding economic and social phenomena and to share these insights with Academia, public institutions, the business community and the interested public.

Economica focuses on processes of economic structural change at the national and regional level. Its activities focus on research into innovation processes, the investigation of transport, supply and communications infrastructure (network industries), analyses of the formation of human capital and its accumulation, as well as on financial economic assessments and forecasts.

Economica maintains a wide range of macroeconomic and regional economic analysis and forecasting models. In addition, the institute is engaged in basic index-theoretical research and has its own survey-based socio-economic primary data base and an affiliated group of academically certified pollsters.

Economica GmbH is a research institute with a strong policy orientation based in Vienna. As part of the Cognion research network and former spin-off of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Economica GmbH has focused on model-based applications since its foundation in 2000.

The services offered by Economica GmbH focus on practice- and policy-oriented empirical analyses, among others, in the field of regional economic and company-related impact research, technology- and innovation-related efficiency studies and innovation-driven structural change of regions or reforms of public administration. In addition, Economica GmbH deals with data-, computation- and survey-intensive research agendas and also has distinctive competencies in the multidimensional visualization of economic and innovation-related analysis results.