Vision, Mission & Goals

Vision

Aspiring to lead the region in pioneering research across FinTech, Gaming & E-sports, and AI in healthcare.

Mission
  • Pursuing excellence in research across the center's focus areas.
  • Building strong connections with industry and serving as trusted advisors and innovation partners.
  • Cultivating students' research proficiency and advancing their expertise in analytics and the digital economy.
Goals
  • Develop an AI system for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) lending that improves risk prediction and reduces new default inflows by ≥15% by 2030.
  • Develop an explainable AI model for debt-based crowdfunding to strengthen borrower screening and investor protection, achieving ≥20% reduction in platform default by 2030.
  • Develop an explainable AI analytics platform to achieve a ≥25% reduction in fraudulent claims and a concurrent ≥10% reduction in anomalous payment leakage by 2030.
  • Develop a policy diagnostic framework for microfinance and crowdfunding to quantify market barriers and recommend reforms that increase access by 20-30% by 2030.
  • Design a national digital-economy foreign direct investment (FDI) acceleration policy package to cut approval time by 40 percent and double lead-to-commitment conversion by 2030.
  • Create FDI analytics framework to quantify the impact of projects and reforms, supporting data-driven progress toward the 5.7% gross domestic product (GDP) FDI target by 2030.
  • Develop adoption and usage research frameworks of 30 FinTech solutions across digital payment, digital capital raising, and neo-banking by 2028.
  • Develop 20 emerging technology adoption and usage frameworks to advance digital transformation and assess economic impact across healthcare management, marketing, innovation and entrepreneurship, finance, creative industries, education, government, and real estate by 2030.
  • Develop two AI-enabled FinTech frameworks that increase the purchase of tourists’ gifts by ≥10% across 10 tourism businesses by 2030 through secure and transparent transactions and privacy-aware personalization.
  • Develop  three E-sports tourism innovation models using insights from major events, E-sports gamers and audiences, and generate validated evidence of increased event-related tourist arrivals and a 5-10% uplift in average length of stay by 2028.