Intelligence for commerce.
Research for what comes next.
Imponexpo Research explores AI, commerce, physical systems, trust, economic infrastructure and long-horizon institutions — for a more open, resilient and prosperous global economy.
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People.
A more prosperous
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A connected research system for a complex world.
Eighteen research areas. A shared purpose. Exploring the intersections of people, markets, physical systems and institutions to turn insight into real-world progress.
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Our research brings together diverse disciplines and real-world expertise to address the most important questions in global commerce.
- Cross-disciplinary
- Globally informed
- Practically grounded
- Built for impact
Eighteen research areas for a more prosperous world.
Computational Commerce & Economic Coordination
Researching commerce as a computable, stateful and evidence-bearing coordination system rather than a series of disconnected transactions.
Commerce-Native Artificial Intelligence
Building and evaluating AI that can reason about products, firms, obligations, evidence, jurisdictions, physical events and economic consequences.
Agentic & Autonomous Commerce
Researching conversational and autonomous systems that can turn economic intent into bounded, reviewable action while keeping people meaningfully in control.
Commerce Graphs, State & World Models
Representing economic reality as connected entities, relationships, time-varying state and causal processes that can be queried, tested and simulated.
Evaluation & Experimental Economies
Developing the measurement, training and experimental systems needed to know whether economic AI is actually competent, safe and useful.
Trust, Identity & Verifiable Commerce
Researching how identity, capability, evidence and transaction state can make commercial decisions more trustworthy.
Markets, Procurement & Human Commerce
Studying how demand, capability, search, relationships and machine mediation shape commercial markets.
Finance & Economic Systems
Researching payments, settlement, trade finance, insurance and capital systems that respond safely to commercial intent and evidence.
Physical Commerce, Manufacturing & Logistics
Connecting AI and economic intelligence to factories, products, warehouses, vehicles, ports and other real-world systems.
Product Intelligence, Quality & Lifecycle Responsibility
Making products more machine-readable across identity, specification, quality, conformity, provenance, maintenance and end-of-life.
Country-Native Commerce & Public Infrastructure
Treating every country as a first-class economic environment while researching how those environments can interoperate globally.
Data, Semantics & Interoperability
Researching the language, data and protocol fabric that lets companies, countries, agents, machines and products understand one another.
Frontier Compute, Security & Privacy
Researching the compute, connectivity, cryptography and privacy foundations required for secure and resilient intelligent commerce.
Climate, Energy, Geospatial & Mobility Intelligence
Connecting commerce intelligence to climate, energy, Earth observation, transport infrastructure and eventually off-Earth economic activity.
Human-Centered Commerce, Labor & Inclusion
Researching how intelligent commerce can expand human capability, access and dignity rather than optimizing only for machine efficiency.
Macroeconomic Intelligence, Market Design & Resilience
Using commerce-level evidence to understand systemic risk, resource constraints and economic change before they appear fully in lagging statistics.
Research Systems, Institutions & Scientific Authority
Studying how an industrial research institution compounds knowledge, evidence, talent, capital and technical authority over time.
Frontier Economic Institutions & Long-Horizon Commerce
Exploring economic systems that may not fit today's categories, including machine populations, protocol-native markets and new forms of coordination.
From insight to a more prosperous world.
Our research areas are deeply interconnected — linked by shared data, methods, infrastructure and real-world applications.
Explore the connected agendaResearch areas
Complementary and interconnected.
Shared infrastructure
Data, compute and global access.
Methods & evaluation
Real-world testing and evidence.
Published work
Insights for a more prosperous world.
Explore our public outputs.
Research, data, tools and insights to advance a more open and prosperous global economy.
Published research
Selected papers and research directions.
Research programs
Thematic initiatives and multi-disciplinary projects.
Open problems
Important questions for the global community.
Collaboration pathways
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A more open and prosperous world is a shared effort.
We welcome collaboration with researchers, industry, governments and other organisations around the world.
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Common questions
What does Imponexpo Research study?
The public research agenda spans 18 areas connecting AI, commerce, trust, physical systems, economic infrastructure and institutions. Research pages describe the questions, methods and programs in each area. Browse the research areas
How can researchers collaborate with Imponexpo?
Researchers, practitioners, universities, businesses and institutions can discuss shared questions, relevant expertise and possible collaboration through the research collaboration page. Discuss research collaboration