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Interdisciplinary Research on Socioeconomic Transformations

The Interdisciplinary Research on Socioeconomic Transformations area studies, from a comprehensive and rigorous perspective, the main challenges and opportunities facing our societies in a context of rapid change. Its objective is to generate and transfer useful knowledge that supports decision-making in companies, public administrations, and institutions, thereby contributing to fairer, more sustainable, and more inclusive development, while also driving the creation of shared value and promoting responsible and innovative responses to current global and local challenges. Research in this area uses quantitative, qualitative, and experimental methodologies to analyze, measure, and monitor contemporary socioeconomic transformations, with a special focus on issues such as sustainability, longevity, social inclusion, globalization, the 2030 agenda, and the impact of digitalization on organizations and society. Its interdisciplinary approach allows these phenomena to be addressed in a cross-disciplinary manner, integrating different economic, social, technological, and ethical dimensions.

Research topics

  • Longevity: challenges and opportunities
  • Predictive models for improving healthcare management, public health, and occupational health
  • Promoting STEM careers: causes, educational strategies, and computational thinking
  • The consumer in green transitions: adoption, diffusion and social change
  • Finance and sustainability
  • Social inclusion and vulnerability
  • Discernment as a tool for organizational decision making
  • Technological innovation and sustainability: effects on firm performance
  • Ethical considerations in technology and Artificial Intelligence
  • Development of advanced ESG and socioeconomic metrics based on composite indicators
  • Impact assessment of economic and public policies
  • Economic analysis of the international, European, and Spanish current situation
  • Empirical studies on behavioral economics

Publications

Education

  • "Strategies for theorization". , Toulouse (France). Apr 2026.

Coordinator

David Roch Dupré obtained the PhD (with International Mention) in Engineering Systems Modeling from Pontifical Comillas University (Madrid, Spain) in 2020. He also obtained the Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering (2016), the Master's Degree in Research in Engineering Systems Modeling (2016) and the Degree in Electromechanical Engineering (2014). During his doctoral studies he worked as Assistant Researcher at the Institute for Research In Technology (IIT), where he combined his research activity with teaching, giving classes in the Department of Electronic and Control Engineering of ICAI Scholl of Engineering. In 2020 he joined the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (ICADE) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods, where he teaches Operations Research and Algebra for Business Analytics. He is also a researcher at IIT, participating in publicly and privately funded research projects.

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