Research at HEC-ULg for the benefit of business involves putting to use its intellectual resources to offer services to the community.  The School has over 50 full-time professors and 130 researchers or assistants who, to varying degrees, share their time between teaching and scientific research, supervising doctoral students, participating actively in different scientific networks, publishing works or articles in scientific journals and placing their skills at the service of enterprises.  
Its network of Research Centers brings together professors, researchers, professional economists and managers. These multidisciplinary teams place their expertise at the service of businesses to meet their the specific needs and thus contribute to improving managerial practices in businesses. 

Areas of Expertise

These Research Centers are active on a European scale in the various areas of

* management: innovation, human resources management, entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, change management, strategic marketing, support for creation and growth;  

* finance: business performance, quantitative management methods;

* economics: public economics, population, social economics.
All these studies can be a (gifted) contribution to an enterprise or be the result of a specific request on the part of an enterprise.
 
Types of Services  
 
Here are some examples of the services on offer:

• Economic feasibility studies for industrial and social and economic projects 
• Consultancy for the implementation of projects 
• Project accompaniment missions 
• Business performance appraisal

 
The services of the HEC-ULg Research Centers can also be divided into the three stages of a project:

• the preparatory phase (market studies, sector studies, benchmarking, drafting strategic plans, business plan, etc.); 
• the implementation phase (methodological support, accompaniment and coaching, management consulting, etc.); 
• the project assessment and follow-up phase (putting together performance indicators, establishing corrective measures, development plans, etc.).  

 
This research comes under the themes of our peaks of excellence.