The Center for Complex Economic Networks and Sustainability

CENS aims to bridge the gap between economy, business and sustainability, leveraging the combined expertise of the University of Edinburgh Business School and the USFQ Data Hub to delve into the dynamics of economic activities and their environmental implications

Developing a comprehensive framework

To analyze production and financial networks at the firm level using cutting-edge data science techniques

Create data-driven tools and models

To support decision-making processes for businesses and policymakers.

CENS

Research Investigation Center for Ecuador's domestic and international production to delve into the dynamics of economic activities and their environmental implications

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Identifying key drivers and bottlenecks

That influence sustainable economic transition and diversification

Drive policy and business practices

In the academia, industry, and government stakeholders with our research findings.

Our Projects

State-of-the-art technologies in data science, artificial intelligence and network sciences to analyze production networks

international collaboration
the research center would build capacity Pablo Astudillo and train the next generation of data scientists Theodor Cojoianu and sustainability experts Cam Wontan to drive evidence-based policy and business practices.