HSG Next Generation Initiative

Research news from MEcon and MiQE/F students, insights for policy making, business and society.

The HSG Next Generation initiative encourages young scientific talents to inform decision-makers in public: policy, business and in society. The best students summarise the most important findings of new economic research in leading scientific journals.

Leaders in public policy and business need short and well written executive summaries of top economic research to inform decision making. Students gain experience in publishing and in the practice of communicating important scientific findings in a popular way, to maximise the impact. 

A great success!

At the focal point of economic policy: innovation, globalisation and climate change

In the ‘Next Generation’ project, HSG students summarise the results of cutting-edge economic research in a popular way. The latest collection of student articles on the topic of ‘Im Brennpunkt der Wirtschaftspolitik’ is now available free of charge as an e-book from Springer Gabler. The editor is Christian Keuschnigg, Professor Emeritus of Economics.

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 the leading journals into popular language. ‘Voters and political decision-makers can only benefit from the results of research if they are accessible in non-technical language,’ says Prof. em. Dr Christian Keuschnigg.

‘Readers Digest’ of economics

In the ‘Next Generation’ project, the best Master's students at the University of St.Gallen summarise policy-relevant results of cutting-edge economic research in a popular way and gain experience in publishing in the process. They train their ability to communicate and categorise research findings 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, objective decision-making.’

As part of the project, the student essays will be published here on the programme website on an ongoing basis and will also be published periodically as a book. The first two e-books ‘Inklusives Wachstum und wirtschaftliche Sicherheit’ (2018) and ‘Die Wirtschaft im Wandel’ (2021) have been downloaded over 200,000 times to date. Open Science is a focal point of research work at the HSG. ‘Whenever possible, we make our work freely accessible, be it via publishers or our own research platform Alexandria,’ says Christian Keuschnigg.