On December 5, 2019, IESR, the Centre for Business Analytics and the Digital Economy (CBADE) and the Department of Economics at Hong Kong Baptist University joined forces in co-hosting the Workshop on Big Data Analytics in Business and Economic Research. 

Scholars from academia, industry, and government introduced data products on rural households, firms and employees, patents, customs records, trade, academic publishing, transportation, economic history, pollution and weather, etc. The workshop facilitated future data sharing and research cooperation among researchers.