Research at the Center is aimed at generating knowledge that helps to promote, organize and coordinate training and support activities for an audience composed of entrepreneurs, top executives, family business people, investors, researchers and professors.

Lines of Research

Entrepreneurship
This line of research is intended to widen knowledge of the dynamic process and the problems associated with the development of new and/or existing companies. It delves into the following matters:

• Creation and funding of new companies
• Management of growing companies
• Venture capital
• Intrapreneurship
• Entrepreneurial externalization processes (spin-offs, MBOs and MBIs).

Family Business
The Center delves into the problems involved in family enterprise in all of its phases, with research in the following dimensions:

• Substantial differences in the processes of management and governing between family and non-family businesses. 
• Growth, evolution and development to become an important, multi-generational and international company. Problems and solutions. 
• Approach and action reasoning contradictory to the development of family business and causing the elevated death rate. 
• Governing bodies and processes. 
• Evolution towards "family investment firms".