Research in business, economics and management is crucial to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. BI faculty publish relevant research that contributes to BI’s societal impact and the global sustainability agenda.
In previous years, BI conducted a qualitative analysis to identify which of its research articles were relevant to the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These analyses are listed below.
More recently, BI has adopted the Web of Science citation database’s automated classification of publications according to the SDGs. This provides an estimate of BI’s research contributions across the different SDGs. The figure below presents a breakdown of BI’s 2024 publications by SDG:
Figure: Number and percentage of BI’s publications in 2024 categorised by Web of Science as relevant to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Of the 371 publications from 2024 listed in the Web of Science Core Collection, 149 (40%) are not categorised as relevant to any SDG, while 222 (60%) are categorised as relevant to at least one SDG. This represents an increase compared with the 2020–2021 report, in which approximately 30% of BI’s publications were identified as relevant to at least one SDG. However, as a different methodology was used at that time, the figures are not directly comparable.
The Report on sustainability research at BI Norwegian Business School gives an overview of BI research related to reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Key findings:
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Team Inbbictus from Porto Business School won of the Global Case Competition (GCC), which gathered a total of 84 teams from around the globe to promote game changing ideas to support the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021.
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