This Research Group gathers researchers whose interest is the study of science and of the economy and the processes of their construction in contemporary societies. The economy is understood here in substantive terms, as a reality that includes both systems of provision and social use of goods and services, as well as institutional processes that govern and mediate social interactions and the relationship between people and the material context of life. The study of science, understood as an ensemble of practices and cultures, is frames the analysis of the different forms of knowledge formation and establishment, as well as the diversity in its production, use, sharing and reproduction. A specific attention is given to the processes that confer legitimacy to knowledge, that is, that mobilize specific forms of knowledge to support public action and decision. NECES tries to promote a transdisciplinary approach to both objects of study.

The Research Group aims as well at strengthening the link between research and postgraduate education, both through PhD programs and advanced training courses. These programs are conceived as a privileged space for discussion and cooperation between researchers and students developing research focused on the relationship between Science, Economy and Society.