The Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders is the Flemish organisation stimulating and supporting innovation. Spatialist is supported by IWT as a strategic basic research project (SBO).

http://www.iwt.be/

The main objective of the Public Management Institute is to improve public management, public organization and public policy. The Institute attempts to function as an interface between the university and the public sector. Its main activities are:

One of the major strengths of the Institute is the combination of research, training and education as well as consultancy. The Institute's interdisciplinary research has always been utilized in its training activities and consultancy. Contacts with public organizations through consultancy and networking do link research and education with the practice of public management.

http://www.instituutvoordeoverheid.be/

The Spatial Applications Division Leuven (SADL) is a R&D division of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven) in Belgium. SADL was set up at K.U.Leuven to manage and further develop the applied research, vocational training and consultancy activities in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Earth Observation (EO) and more recently Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). SADL is part of the Geo-Institute which hosts all the geo related units of the University and has around 220 staff members.

Currently SADL has 15 staff members from different disciplines which all have expertise in GI and/or EO technology. In line with the research activities of the participating academic units, SADL offers considerable thematic expertise with respect to land, water, forest, nature and landscape management, agri-environment, urban and regional planning, traffic and transport management, socio-economic issues like tourism and housing. It is complemented by important technical (databases, information systems, applications) and organizational GIS - and EO-expertise.

http://sadl.kuleuven.be/

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and Information & Communication Technology (known by its acronym ICRI, derived from the Dutch name for the Centre, - Interdisciplinair Centrum voor Recht en ICT) is a research centre within the Faculty of Law. Directed by Prof. dr. Jos Dumortier, it comprises three different research teams which deal with the following areas:

• Information Technology Law: legal aspects of the Internet, legal aspects of information security, personal data protection, IT contracts, law enforcement in cyberspace, electronic fund transfer, legal aspects of EDI in the public sector.
• Electronic Communications Law: international telecommunications law, European competition law in the telecommunications market, legal framework for the broadcasting sector, legal consequences of the convergence between the audio-visual and the telecommunications sectors.
• Legal Informatics and Information Retrieval: legal knowledge representation, legal information retrieval, automatic indexing and abstracting.

http://www.law.kuleuven.be/icri

The area 'Work and Organisation' of the Centre for Sociological Research (K.U.Leuven) focuses on major issues in relation to (the quality of) work, internal and external labour markets (cf. organisation of work and division of labour), organizational design and change, and economic and industrial development. The research team conducts both fundamental as well as applied policy research.

In relation to fundamental research, the team focuses - in several PhD-projects - on the further development of key-theoretical frameworks and methodological techniques. In relation to theory, the research group mainly concentrates on integral organizational renewal theory (based on the modern socio-technical systems theory), social-structural theories (i.e. social network theories) and institutional theories (i.e. regulation school). In relation to methodological techniques the focus is on cross-sectional and panel survey research and the systematic comparative analysis of case-studies.

http://soc.kuleuven.be/ceso/

The group MOSI (Mathematics, Operational research, Statistics and Information systems, applied in human sciences) is part of the faculty of Economical, social and political sciences and Solvay Business School of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

MOSI consists of ±30 staff members and has an important experience in the field of evaluation methods applied in human sciences, aimed at the socio-economical evaluation of decision-making problems. Within the MOSI department, MOSI – T is active in the field of transportation and logistics management. MOSI-T is specialised in the application of socio-economic evaluation methods in the field of transport and logistics.

Among other things, the MAMCA method (Multi-Actor, Multi-Criteria Analysis) was further elaborated and refined in order to apply it in the field of transportation and logistics.

http://www.vub.ac.be/MOSI
http://www.vub.ac.be/MOSI-T