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The vision of the Society Hub is to become “A leading force in the knowledge economy of a digital society”. Its mission is to cultivate cross-disciplinary talents with cutting-edge analytical skills and an open and growing mindset, ready at resolving socio-economic issues and contributing to the knowledge economy in a networked society and rapidly changing world.

While the scope of cross-disciplinary research will serve the national development strategy and respond to market demand, the Society Hub focuses in the near term on the following four thrust areas: Urban Governance and Design; Innovation, Policy, and Entrepreneurship; Financial Technology; and MBA+, which are inspired by several interesting patterns and trends emerging in the new century. Currently Society Hub offers three programs both in Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy. They are MPhil/PhD Programs in Financial Technology; MPhil/PhD Programs in Innovation, Policy and Entrepreneurship; and MPhil/PhD Programs in Urban Governance and Design. As a start of our MBA+ programs, we expect to launch an MBA for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the new camps in September 2022.

The Society Hub welcomes students with strong analytical mind from a diverse set of backgrounds such as Economics/Business, Social Sciences, as well as Science and Engineering. We will strive to provide an environment to facilitate collaboration among students and between students and faculty members across disciplines and across the Hubs. We aim to nurture graduates with independent mind, critical thinking skills, research capability, and relevant domain knowledge highly valued by the business community, the think tanks, as well as policy/research institutions.