Campus - 24.07.2024 - 08:00
Innovative research and teaching in economics can contribute to a better society. For research to have an impact, economists need to translate the latest findings in leading academic journals into popular language. "Voters and policymakers can only benefit from research if it is accessible in non-technical language," says Prof. em. Dr Christian Keuschnigg.
In the "Next Generation" project, the best Master students at the University of St.Gallen summarise policy-relevant findings from cutting-edge economic research in a popular form and gain experience in publishing. They train their ability to communicate and categorise research results in an understandable way. "In this way, the students themselves make an important contribution to one of the university's core tasks, namely the transfer of knowledge from basic research to practice," writes HSG President Prof. Dr. Manuel Ammann in his foreword. "In concrete terms, they improve the information base for economic policy and thus contribute to balanced and objective decision-making.
As part of the project, the students' essays will be published continuously on the website and also periodically in book form. The first two e-books, "Inclusive Growth and Economic Security" (2018) and "The Changing Economy" (2021), have been downloaded over 200,000 times to date. Open science is a focus of research at the HSG. "Whenever possible, we make our work freely accessible, whether through publishers or our own research platform Alexandria," says Christian Keuschnigg.
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