Based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, the Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation is the first UK centre for research in economic sociology. With a clear focus on innovation, our research programmes highlight contemporary and historical processes of socio-economic transformation.
CRESI draws together the considerable strengths of the University's research in the areas of:

• markets; corporate institutions and business networks
• economic and social rights; corporate social responsibility; cultural economy; welfare regimes and pensions
• food and consumption; work and employment; advertising and communications; socio-technical change
• gender budgeting and fiscal sociology; biotechnology and bioeconomy; and economies of innovation and knowledge.

CRESI provides a focus for a research agenda that is interdisciplinary, global and comparative in scope, addressing the 'big' issues facing the world today.