ABOUT US
The Chinese character “韌” is denoted as “tender but persistent”, which presents its true meaning to cope with changes with flexibility and remain viable. Resilience has been mentioned or elaborated in multiple disciplines such as literature, arts, psychology, sociology, and management. However, it never caught much attention until the world was heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The phenomenon motivates us to integrate researchers from different disciplines with various methodologies to accommodate the issues developed by dramatic and unprecedented changes, taking the pandemic as the first common target while forming the research team. As we anticipate the unprecedented and dramatic disruptions that might occur in the near future, especially when the world is facing the consequences of climate change, we would like to actively engage in exploring the potential solutions and actions and consequently improve the well-being of individuals and societies.
We will set up a university-level research center, “The Center for Resilience Research (CRR)”, an organization to initiate the research and practice in resilience in NTHU. We anticipate gradually strengthening resilience research, generalizing its findings, and implementing its practice in Taiwan and eventually in the World. We will investigate the issues in four units of analysis, individual, industrial, social, and national resilience. Each level of research is conducted by the researchers with the corresponding expertise to engage with problem domains and to practice engaged scholarship. With actively engaged scholars, we will accommodate the real-world problems and challenges by conducting research to build theories, validate models, and then intervene in the real world with insightful theories and proposed solutions. In order to engage with the real world systematically and continuously, we will establish a community of practice (CoP), called “the Academy of Resilience”, as knowledge management and learning platform (organizational and technical) to facilitate the interactions and collaborations among academic, industries, communities, and individuals to grow the capabilities in resilience.
Through the CoP activities, CRR could develop the value co-creation relationship with stakeholders by offering courses, workshops, and consultancy to deliver the academic research outputs. The practitioners could also share the real-world problems to align academic research efforts. The research outcomes will definitely aim to publish in international top journals to communicate with international academic communities; moreover, the outcomes will be translated to practical contributions to policy making, business transformation guided by resilience-based service innovation, resilience township network promotion, and resilience counseling for employees and the general public. CRR will establish a cooperative relationship with two research centers in USA and Sweden via site visits, co-adviseship, co-hosting international conferences in resilience, and participation in international resilience organizations. We anticipate that Taiwan’s academic and practical communities are able to engage with international communities to study and practice resilience while the world consistently faces the threat of black swan or gray rhino high-impact events. CRR expects to become an outstanding research center in resilience in Taiwan and devotes itself to becoming a global benchmark with interdisciplinarily engaged scholars.
OUR MISSION
Taking these resilience research centres as our benchmarks, our Center for Resilience Research (CRR) in NTHU is planned to accomplish the missions as follows.
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To establish the resilience theory of business sustainability and digital transformation from the macro, meso, and micro perspectives.
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To cultivate cross-disciplinary talents with resilient research and development capabilities.
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To promote resilience-oriented service innovation in Taiwan's industry and society to cope with changing environments.
OUR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
This center includes four resilience research groups to carry out the task of resilience research, and four groups are organized to work together to achieve their task. Four groups employ full-time administrative assistants to assist in business development according to the project funds, and the collaborative researchers of each research group can participate in the operation of associated groups. Each group is headed by a professor.
●The Advisory Committee invites experts from the Advisory Committee, ITRI, Commercial Research Institute, China Productivity Center, Taiwan Society of Service Science, AUO Corp., HIWIN Technologies Corp, etc., to serve as a link with the Advisory Committee to provide advice and assist the development of the Center and its industrial and social resources.
● Research and Development Group: responsible for research and group-related business, assisting research groups in publishing research results, planning and implementing seminars and forums at home and abroad.
● International Cooperation Group: Responsible for international cooperation affairs, including ex-situ study, research exchanges, international benchmarking activities, and other activities.
● Community Development Group: develop the center's social network with stakeholders, including the development of relationships between government, industry, community, and individuals related to resilience. Accumulate social capital through industry-university cooperation, resilient township alliance, resilient consultation service, curriculum promotion, and other mechanisms.
● Administration group: responsible for the work related to the budget, resources, project management, and other operations of the center.
Since 2022, we draw a development roadmap for the Center for Resilience Research (CRR) at NTHU: