Centre for Innovation and Trade Economy

Centre for Innovation and Trade Economy, referred to as CITE, is a non-profit organization incorporated in 2020 under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013. We are a team of passionate professionals with years of experience in research related to the Economics of Innovation, Technology, and Trade. Our vision is:

‘enable innovation ecosystem and sustainable trade across the globe to spread prosperity’.

We seek to achieve our vision by enabling policymakers, academia, industry, and practitioners in their pursuit of innovation and trade through quality research inputs. We bring all relevant stakeholders on the same platform where they can discuss existing policy related gaps and recommend possible way outs. We aim to motivate young researchers to debate and study the role of technology and trade in economic development with different lenses through high quality empirical and theoretical economic research.  

We believe that to achieve our vision we need to inculcate certain values in our organization, keeping human prosperity at the centre. We would like to be known as the organization that lives up to the highest level of integrity, challenging the status quo to help realize the inherent innovation potential. We also seek to maintain excellence in our research and project implementation and to collaborate with organizations and people around the globe to achieve the same.