The Artificial Intelligence Research and Innovation Center AIRI (ex Softech-ICT) is an Inter-departmental Research Center on ICT promoted by the "Enzo Ferrari" Department of Engineering and by the "Marco Biagi" Department of Economics of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

CAPP – Research Centre for the Analysis of Public Policies carries out research and consulting activities on social and fiscal policies to both public and private bodies, with particular attention to the study of distributive effects.
Over the years, other complementary research areas concerning welfare , innovation and territorial systems have been combined with the main research area.

Il Cefin promuove la ricerca in ambito economico-finanziario, con un approccio interdisciplinare che combina gli strumenti dell'economia, del diritto e della tassazione degli intermediari e dei mercati finanziari, della finanza d'impresa e della teoria della finanza. 
Le principali aree di ricerca sono dunque: Banking, Financial Markets, Corporate Finance, Start-up Finance, Household Finance, Behavioural Finance, Pensions, Risk management, Financial Regulation e supervision, Asset pricing, Macrofinancial scenarios, Law and economics, Financial literacy.

Aree di ricerca: Macroeconomics, Political economy, Monetary economics, Microeconomics, Industrial organization, Labor and demographic economics, International economics, Financial economics and Econometrics, Econometric modeling and forecasting, Statistical theory, optimization and applications, Economic history, Public economics