The Unicist Research Institute

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The Unicist Research Institute

The Unicist Research Institute (TURI) is a global institution dedicated to basic and applied research in the field of complexity sciences.
Applied research at TURI is focused on the development of ontology-based technologies for social, institutional, individual and business applications. TURI develops technologies, tools and solutions in the field of the research of complex systems, future research, scenarios, strategy and education applied to countries, business and individuals.


		The financial crisis of 2008 is not just one more crisis. It is a structural crisis where the roots of the capitalist system have been threatened. The history of the crisis has two basic preconditions and two main triggering causes. The preconditions are the fall of the communist system and the use of consumerism in order to sustain scarcity as an economic driver. The two triggering causes were the technological plateau and shareholders dominance in economic organizations. Businesses have the responsibility to survive and at the same time to develop growth counter-cyclical strategies. To access a counter-cyclical effect it is necessary to change the concept of what is being offered to the market. Counter-cyclical strategy building is based on the Unicist Ontology of Evolution and the Unicist Theory for Economic Growth.

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The unicist ontological approach to complexity belongs to the field of hard sciences. Therefore, unicist ontology based technologies belong to the field of hard sciences / technologies. Their groundings are objective, and they are necessary in the field of complex problem solutions. Unicist technologies achieve significant improvements in their application fields. They deal with the technological, rational, psychological and cultural aspects of problems.

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Research on Human Intelligence
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Research on human intelligence applied to individual, institutional and social fields began in 1976. Until the year 2006, the developments carried out on the basis of this research included the research of the genesis, evolution, applications and the possibilities for the development of human intelligence. The synthesis of the results of these research works includes the ontology and the evolution of intelligence regarded as a complex system.

•The discovery of anti-intuition
•The discovery of the unicist ontology of human learning
•The discovery of the unicist taxonomy of complex problem solving learning
•The discovery of the ontogenesis of the ethical intelligence
•The discovery of the unicist ontology of innovation
•The basics of learning new skills to solve complex problems
•The discovery of the ontology of superiority complexes
•Discovery of the unicist ontology of fundamental and technical analysis
•Discovery of the unicist ontology of time management and time drivers
•Discovery of the unicist ontology of decision making
•Discovery of the unicist ontology of leadership

Researches on individual, institutional and social evolution are based on the unicist ontology of evolution. Click here to access the bibliography.

Applied research on institutions and business Click over the title of each research to open its paper or abstract. -The Unicist Design Methodology: Unicist XD -Discovery of the Unicist Ontology of Intellectual Capital -The Building of Human Capital: an ontological approach -Discovery of the unicist ontology of marketing mix -Discovery of the unicist ontology of family businesses -Discovery of the unicist ontology of object driven value generation -Discovery of the unicist ontology of cognitive objects -Discovery of the unicist ontology of quality assurance -Discovery of the unicist ontology of a commercial catalyst - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Functional Segmentation - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Market Segmentation - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Natural Organization - Discovery of the unicist ontology of human process catalysts - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Client Centered Management - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Innovation - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Insourcing - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Outsourcing - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Research - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Business Synergy		Applied research on countries and cultures Click over the title of each research to open its paper or abstract. - Discovery of the unicist ontology of the collective unconscious - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Democracy - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Economic Behavior - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Fundamentalism - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Fundamentalists - Discovery of the unicist ontology of historical evolution - Discovery of the unicist ontology of ideologies - Discovery of the unicist ontology of Lifestyles - Discovery of the unicist ontology of the State-Nation - Discovery of the unicist ontology of countries' cultural change - Unicist Anthropology - The unicist ontology of globalization and sustainable development - Unicist Ontological archetype of Australia - Unicist ontological archetype of Brazil - Unicist Ontological archetype of France - Unicist ontological archetype of Germany - Unicist Ontological archetype of Sweden

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The Unicist Ontological Approach to Complexity
Research and Application Fields

Research works on complex problems - developed from 1976 until 2008 - applied over 90,000 hours in the falsification process and more than 185,000 hours in the validation/revalidation process.
The discovery of the ontology of evolution unveiled a new approach to influence reality.
Ontology describes the nature of ideas, facts, individuals and things, regarded from their essential, causative or functional (operational) aspects. In the short or long run, living beings and their deeds are consistent with their nature. The unicist ontology erases the existent barrier between the human arbitrary division of philosophy, science and action, by defining concepts that integrate them in a unified field.
The unicist approach was developed to influence evolution and to solve complex problems using a conceptual approach to describe the nature (ontology) of things. Its application in life sciences explains the ontological structure of therapeutic processes.
On the other hand it is a relevant added value for decision making in complex fields and where reality has ambiguous components. This approach is essential for strategy, management and accurate forecasting of economic and social scenarios.It integrates the complex system approach with an ontological and an anthropological approach.

Basic Research and Research in Evolution

The Unicist Theory of Evolution The ontology of evolution unveiled a new approach to reality. In the short or long run, living beings and their deeds are consistent with their nature. It is a theory that explains the evolution of living beings, their produces and their actions. Living beings are considered as unified functional fields, ruled by their underlying concepts, which evolve according to basic laws.	The discovery of the structure of concepts The evolution of living beings is ruled by concepts. Concepts are "maps" that describe the essential functionality of a reality. Concepts describe the essential purpose, procedure and action guide of a living being or a given reality.	Complexity - The research of concepts The research of the structure of concepts is probably one of the most difficult obstacles to be overcome when developing methods for fundamental analysis. Essences can’t be observed and therefore part of the research is based on logical inference with validation in its application to reality.
Unicist Logic Logic is defined as a structure of rules to emulate aspects of a given reality and sustain the validity of diagnostics and prognostics. The Unicist Logic was developed to structure the functionality of concepts of complex systems and their subsystems.	The ontology of Fallacies This research has demonstrated that fallacies are not errors; instead they are functional conducts or behaviors that ascertain beliefs or needs. Until the development of integral logic, fallacies were considered reasoning or foundation errors.	Ontointelligence The unicist ontological research defined and described the essential and operational functionality of intelligence. According to the results, intelligence has reactive, active and ontointelligence functions.
Unicist reflection for the ontology of complex systems The Unicist Reflection Methodology describes an approach to penetrate into the innermost part of concepts, i.e., their purposes. It is a methodology which requires a high level of abstraction to be able to approach the ontology of a given reality.

Scenario Building and Future Research

Cross-cultural invariables The discovery of cross-cultural “invariables”, the modeling of the collective unconsciousness and the conceptual functionality of ideologies produces a breakthrough in the fields of anthropology and sociology.	Unicist model to approach the scientific study of History The historical unicist ontological approach is sustained by the theory of conceptual behavior. The Unicist approach sustains that dialectics is only a simplified way of thinking and promoting dual behavior. It sustains that in each reality there is a Thesis and Antithesis as the Marxist model defines, but there is also a homeostasis.	Unicist theory of conceptual Economics The Unicist approach includes various new conceptual structures in the world of macroeconomics, and the development of the theory of conceptual economics. - Conceptual structure of Demand - Conceptual structure of Economic Growth - Conceptual structure of Economic Schools
Unicist Price Elasticity of Demand The first approach to influence demand using price and value approaches occurred in 1981 in Diners Club . Since this first successful approach, there were leading cases with American Express, Monsanto, Ciba-Geigy, Massey Ferguson and BASF products, where new tools to approach the "price elasticity of demand" were used. .	Structure of developed, underdeveloped and emerging countries It is the first model for future research and scenario building based on logical inferences. The accuracy attained since 1980 years makes the use of this model highly reliable. It includes the structure of developed, underdeveloped, emerging and developing countries. It explains the available development possibilities for nations.	Conceptual model for Future Research Future research and strategy are the fields in which conceptual analysis adds more value for corporative use. There is a fully defined conceptual model for forecasting, based on the concepts of individuals, institutions, cultures or communities. It is the first model for Future Research with conceptual validity. The accuracy attained in the last 25 years makes the use of this model highly reliable.
Conceptual structure of competitiveness To influence people, institutions and communities to compete successfully it is necessary to understand the conceptual structure of competitiveness. The research discloses the structure of competitiveness and its relation with cooperation. It has been used to develop competitive strategies in the economic, social and individual field.

Business Applications

Business concepts to approach complex problems Conceptual analysis is a methodology to analyze concepts using the corresponding rules and taxonomies. The structures of already discovered functional concepts can be used to develop the correspondent operative concepts and objects. It enables to use discovered concepts to develop concepts in homologous fields.	Blue Eagle Expert System It was designed to diagnose and forecast reality in the fields of: -Country scenario building -Market strategy and scenarios -Business strategy and scenarios -Personal evolution The expert systems are based on logical inferences grounded on the concepts researched.	Unicist Conceptual Management The most innovative aspects of this unicist scientific approach are related to the “basic laws for business strategy” and the “change management” developments. In these works you can find the conditions for the development of successful strategies and their implementation laws.
Unicist IT design methodology The Conceptual Analysis enabled the development of IT design methodologies, supporting the definition of objects. Concepts describe the essence of IT-objects. The Unicist approach also enables the development of Artificial Intelligence based systems, using conceptual rules, ensuring the quality of their outputs.	Global approach to marketing The discoveries and developments of concepts in the area of human and social behavior turned the preexisting marketing techniques into useful operational tools to complement conceptual analysis. The discovery of the cross-cultural “invariables”, makes the unicist approach the sole methodology that delivers precise answers to globalization related problems, and made global market laboratories possible.	Conceptual (ontological) structure of markets The Unicist Market Laboratory sustains the building of object-oriented marketing systems. The library of objects and classes requires a logical structure that is given by conceptual analysis. This enables the systematic “re-use” of marketing objects.
Unicist ontological Lifestyles model Lifestyles are the observable expression of cultures. Collective unconsciousness, ethics, costumes and habits define lifestyles. Understand lifestyles helps to approach different cultures. The conceptual lifestyle model is a cross-cultural tool to understand social changes and market behavior. Its main characteristic is that it bases its conclusions on the ultimate causes of human behavior.	Unicist Knowledge Management Managing the concept of a certain reality enables the structuring of its knowledge. Then it is possible to adapt to this reality, influence it and know its adjacent facts.Conceptual logic supplies the tools for the accumulation of the structural non-temporal and cross-cultural knowledge. This approach integrates conjunctural knowledge into its structure.	Unicist business objects library It contains the cognitive and systemic objects necessary to organize institutions in all their aspects but those referred to particular production problems. You will find the description of objects to use “plug and work” to maximize commercial results, quality, productivity and reduce costs. “Conceptual maps”, to select the necessary objects for each problem, are included in the library.
The ontology of the learning process The Unicist personalized education seeks to develop the potential of individuals. This development of potential carries an overall empowerment of the individual as a person. It is a return to the sources of education; it is the recovery of initial values of the evolution of the species.