In 1990, the Toulouse economists created the Institut d’Economie Industrielle (IDEI) and started to set up long-term partnerships with corporations and to develop innovative research topics that contributed to establishing the reputation of economists from Toulouse.
The economics group now gathers about 100 senior and junior researchers affiliated with various research institutions (University of Toulouse, EHESS, CNRS, INRA) and about 100 doctoral students (70% international).
In 2007, a new step was taken when the French government and the Academy of Sciences chose TSE as one of 13 "R