Cross‑cutting Themes
Supporting research and innovation
Dalhousie’s expertise in the collection, use, analysis and interpretation of big data enables new opportunities for research, analysis and insight in all of the university’s Signature Research Clusters.
Research Focus Areas:
- Data science
- Machine learning, analytics and big data
- Information systems, cloud and web-scale computing
- Data-driven decision- and policy-making; social, behavioral, and business analytics; and the management of data
- Law, technology, and ethical use of data
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Dalhousie’s strengths in innovation and entrepreneurship facilitate opportunities for collaboration between companies and university researchers and help drive the commercialization of research.
Research Focus Areas:
- Technical leadership and innovation management
- Software design for rapid innovation
- Disrupting through innovation and entrepreneurship
- Sustainable and social entrepreneurship
- Business law
Learn more:
- Dal Innovates
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Management
- Faculty of Law
- Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship
- Centre for Innovation in Infrastructure
- Centre for International Trade and Transportation