Research Goals

The Institute’s research goals are:

1. To combine existing ideas from complex-system studies with complementary ideas from relevant fields—including theoretical neuroscience, systems engineering, economic geography, theoretical physics, and climate science—to develop enhanced and integrated conceptual frameworks and methods for the study of complex natural and social systems; and

2. To apply these integrated concepts and methods to stimulate rapid innovation that either:

A)  enhances the resilience of complex systems vital to human well being that are economically viable, socially equitable, and ecologically sustainable, or;

B)  hastens the beneficial transformation of complex systems with irremediable and fundamental flaws.