The Centre for Business Analytics and the Digital Economy (CBADE) of the Hong Kong Baptist University, School of Business was established in November 2018 to promote business research that takes advantage of recent advances in data-analytic techniques, as well as studies on how the rise of big data and artificial intelligence transforms our corporate environment.

It has four objectives:

(1) To promote the application of data analytics in business studies
by organizing research seminars and academic conferences.
(2) To provide training workshops for Baptist colleagues and students
to acquire the basic skills in business analytics.
(3) To serve as a platform for Baptist colleagues to exchange
experiences in teaching business analytics.
(4) To serve as a platform for Baptist colleagues and students to
exchange research ideas and findings on the digital economy with
international scholars.