Our research brings deep insight into the drivers of economic growth and progress at the microlevel. Our research is motivated by the goal of developing intelligently constructed contextual variables and analytics that can enable efficient capital allocation and market speed for organizations of all scales. Our focus is particularly on emerging economies that are in rapid flux and undergoing transitions in products and markets in ways that are very different from the better studied developed economies.

Understanding the Complex Systems Approach

March 09, 2015

Understanding Growth and Decay of Settlements

March 02, 2015

Get a preview of elements of our approach to understanding drivers of growth and decay of Settlements.

A Simple Visual Rendering of Infrastructural Networks

August 12, 2014

A preview of an approach to understanding the spatial relationship of infrastructural features in rural Tamil Nadu.

How Do Cities Scale in Size

March 02, 2015

A preview of the scaling principles of city size distributions.

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Understanding the Complex Systems Approach

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Understanding Growth and Decay of Settlements

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A Simple Visual Rendering of Infrastructural Networks

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How Do Cities Scale in Size

Our areas of study are

  • The underlying drivers of urbanization: why settlements grow or decay
  • The evolution of product space: the development of product and service ecosystems within micro-economies, factors influencing transitions away from agriculture
  • Mobility and communication networks and their relationship to economic growth.
  • The relationship between an individual’s economic behavior and outcome and the economic context in which they are operating.

Our approach is rooted in the science of complex systems, focusing on the relationships that give rise to the collective behaviors of a system and their evolution in time. Complex systems science derives its approaches from statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics and information theory. Consequently our scientists come with backgrounds in areas such as Physics, Engineering and Computational Neuroscience. We collaborate actively with the academic community of scientists interested in emerging economic systems.

Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Development in India. Identifying Geographical Features of Growth and Urbanisation.

Minimal Spanning

Minimal Spanning Tree of Infrastructure in Rural Tamil Nadu shows how Infrastructure tends to cluster.