Research centres have been created in order to develop academic research. The objective of these centres is to gather expertise and resources on a specific theme to create know-hows and produce high quality publications:
 

• LINC Lab: The areas of research interest for the Laboratory of Learning & Innovation in Networks & Communities are learning and innovation, central themes in the management of technology, innovation and change in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT).

• The “Management of customer equity" research centre, associated to the Institute of Customer Equity, focuses on how to build sustainable relations with the customer.
  
  
• The Institute for Individual Performance works on the general issue of the place and role of men in the performance of organizations. 
  
  
• The Creativity, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship research centre aims to reinforce the position that the Grenoble  has in innovation and management of technology. 
  
  
• FinaTech works on legal, accounting and financial management of businesses of high technology. 
  
  
• METIS – Ways of doing and daily practices in the organization, adopts an original stance with regards to ways of reacting and daily practices in the organization, by specifying and exploiting the DIY concept and other concepts that represent daily practices. 
  
  In this context, it works on everything to do with daily issues from the banal and the dull by focusing on the ways and manners the individual reactions (or groups). The basic idea of this centre is to observe, understand and to value the daily practices that are sometimes hidden, different, invisible, implicit and that have become almost banal.