18 grand research areas.
One connected agenda.
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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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
Work with us to turn research into real-world impact.
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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