Research Partner Program

Through the ISTARI Research Partner Program, we continuously improve and test our data and algorithms, ensuring they meet the highest standards of scientific research. Our mission is to develop robust indicators based on web data and apply them in research to understand important socio-economic challenges of our time. Our research covers a broad range of timely topics from digital transformations, the climate crisis, to sustainable economic development. As engaged scholars, we conduct research that directly informs the business and policy decisions of our collaborators. We achieve this by embracing team science, inter-disciplinarity, and complex systems thinking.

Firm websites are representations of organizational identity. The data derived from them is a valuable resource because we it provides near real-time information on socio-economic developments such as technology usage and sustainability engagement by companies.

‍For example, using our data, researchers can better understand the diffusion of AI technology. Here you can see an Economy Tracker built using our data. This yearly updated tracker shows the percentage of AI firms in different German districts in a given year (and the increase over time).