CBI wants to be an environment that brings together people in decision-making positions in companies, with faculty members and students, to foster integrated exchange, development and application of knowledge, but also to strengthen companies’ capabilities for innovation and business development.

Our ambitions can be summarized as follows:

• We want to improve innovation research, in particular, by clarifying and pursuing new knowledge in leadership, governance and renewal of the business innovation area.
• We aim to be an arena for developing and establishing new forms for cooperation between companies and academia, and a forum for research project meetings. The aim is to advance and partially renew the organization of research on innovation processes
• We want to provide a research environment that is attractive for both young researchers a for researchers with industry experience, who are interested in conducting interactive, action-oriented research in which senior researchers work alongside doctoral candidates and students. 

The rationale for CBI is thus to be a research center involved in interactive research, while also promoting business development in companies. This ambition thus involves two main tasks, conducting research and providing a platform for knowledge-sharing.