CRIC staff is an interdisciplinary group of researchers with a wide variety of interests and a range of innovative methodologies to research the fundamentals of innovation and competitiveness. In the past few years CRIC staff have built an international reputation with their work. CRIC staff and research students regularly participate in a variety of national and international conferences. CRIC also regularly holds research seminars at the School of Business to raise awareness of CRIC research.

CRIC also supports a number of full and part time PhD and higher degree research (HDR) students who work in the areas of clustering, connectivity, integrated resource management, enterprise and small business (SME) growth, policy and governance, community and citizenship. Research students have formed a significant proportion of CRIC activity and direction and HDR students will be a continued focus for CRIC in the future.