Mission statement
The Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience (WGI) is an internationally recognised centre for advancing the fields of economic geography and GIScience, which link economics, geography, computer science and other social sciences, and for creating learning and research opportunities for outstanding students. WGI takes a leadership role in conducting and promoting multi- and transdisciplinary research in GeoComputation and spatial analysis, Business-GIS and Spatial Business Intelligence, innovation economics and regional development.
The Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience (WGI) was established with two interconnected missions to strive for international excellence:
- first, to undertake world class academic research aimed at improving our understanding of spatial patterns, processes and development through conducting innovative fundamental and applied research at the forefront [Research Mission]; and
- second, to enrich the graduate and postgraduate programmes of WU through high quality research based graduate and post-graduate education focusing on diverse subject areas of economic geography/spatial economics and GIScience [Teaching and Training Mission].
It is worthwhile to stress how distinctly 'untraditional', within academia, are the quintessential features of the Institute. In what might — until recently perhaps — have been described as traditional academia, the core values have been those of highly individualised scholarship, and of the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, within professionally constructed disciplinary boundaries. These have never been the values exposed within the Institute which has always displayed a strong commitment to working across disciplinary boundaries, and to the collaborative production of knowledge, both with colleagues in the university and beyond it.
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