Tiir Institute advances research, informed policymaking, international dialogue, and practical development initiatives that strengthen institutions, expand economic opportunities, encourage innovation, and promote sustainable development and global cooperation.
Tiir Institute is a policy and development institute based in Moorhead, Minnesota. We bring research, dialogue and practical initiatives together to help institutions work better, economies grow and communities prosper.
Our work is organized around six focus areas and guided by one mission: to advance research, informed policymaking, international dialogue, and practical development initiatives that strengthen institutions, expand economic opportunities, encourage innovation, and promote sustainable development and global cooperation.
To advance research, informed policymaking, international dialogue, and practical development initiatives that strengthen institutions, expand economic opportunities, encourage innovation, and promote sustainable development and global cooperation.
Evidence-based research, policy analysis and strategic studies that inform better decisions.
Dialogue, partnerships and exchange that connect institutions, markets and communities across borders.
Work that expands economic opportunity through trade, investment, enterprise and infrastructure.
Practical initiatives in agriculture, food systems and technology, including digital tools and AI, that raise productivity.
Strengthening the institutions, governance and stability that lasting development depends on.
Developing leaders and informed, engaged communities through learning, convening and public dialogue.
From published research to hands-on programs, our approaches connect ideas to results.
Policy research, analysis and commentary on economic development and the sectors that drive it.
Conferences, convenings and dialogues that bring policymakers, industry and institutions together.
Programs that turn ideas into results, from fellowships to applied development projects.
Partnerships that link institutions and markets and strengthen global cooperation.
A six-month, fully virtual fellowship (February 5 to August 5, 2027) for 20 agricultural entrepreneurs and innovators, with 12 months of business and investment facilitation support for qualifying projects.
Commentary on the sectors, markets and partnerships that drive economic growth.
Will Africa’s mineral wealth finally produce the industries, jobs and prosperity its people need?
The region is starting from unequal access, fragmented systems and high costs, not from darkness.
Moorhead, Minnesota
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Partnerships, sponsorship and research collaboration.
Partnerships, sponsorship and research collaboration.
