The sustainability of development projects is one of the key area of management research. The KRAFT Centre investigates the economic, social and environmental aspects of development projects and develops a management tool to assess them according to a variety of sustainability criteria.

The KRAFT Centre assists innovative regional development, the key to which is the effective cooperation between the socio-economic stakeholders.

Emerging business models not only challenge successful incumbents, but raise a number of social issues as well. The KRAFT Centre takes a theoretical approach to uncover the economic, social and environmental effects of emerging business models in order to promote sound policy making at the local, regional and national levels.

Research focuses on three key areas that have been determined as factors that contribute to successful city development: the cooperation between cities, development of a city’s identity, and efforts to keep young people in the city.