The CBI formation strategy has two parts to it: an overall strategy for developing the research field, and a strategy for creating and developing CBI as a research hub. This is summarized in the points below to provide a background to our planned activities for 2010:

• Conducting research on innovation processes whose point of departure is real company problems, in order to develop actionable knowledge, methods and tools. Working in projects in which practitioners and researchers collaborate, to create the conditions for knowledge and business development;
• Involving companies in identifying and formulating problems for research, and managing a continuously expanding research agenda, which is overseen by CBI’s steering group, to ensure the scientific and practical relevance of our research;
• Addressing management problems in order to access strategically significant problem areas and gain insights into what really challenges companies, in order to increase influence over ways of working and acting in firms;
• Organizing seminars, workshops and research conferences to provide an arena for sharing and developing knowledge.
• Working with industry doctoral candidates to create actors able to bridge between academia and companies in order to strengthen these links;
• Establishing the conditions necessary to achieve a major impact on on industry through a simultaneous focus on research, business development, network-building and instruction;
• Providing access to already existing knowledge through the products and services we offer, which will increase CBI influence over results in collaborating companies;
• Broadening the action-oriented research approach to the field of innovation, in order to provide new perspectives.