Staff Profile
Dr Jungho Kim
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Email: jungho.kim@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=j4kPR6sAAAAJ&hl=en
Jungho Kim is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Newcastle University Business School (NUBS).
Prior to joining the NUBS, he worked in both academia and practice for twelve years after obtaining his PhD at KAIST Business School.
He worked as an Assistant Professor at Konkuk University and Sunchon National University in South Korea and as a Research Fellow (Academic Level B, the level of Lecturer) in the Centre for Transformative Innovation in School of Business at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. He taught a range of courses for innovation and technology management, strategic management, venture management and quantitative analysis at the undergraduate and postgraduate (PGT and PGR) levels. He also supervised PGR (Master and PhD) students.
He worked as an Associate Research Fellow (project manager level) at the Korea Institute for Industrial and Economics and Trade (KIET) and Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI). While working for the professional institutes, he led a variety of research projects for industry, innovation, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). He also conducted field studies, case analyses and interviews of industries, firms, startups and venture capitals, program assessment and consulting, and grant/subsidy application review and provided professional services for public and private organisations.
He is a member of the editorial board of Asia Pacific Journal of Small Business. He has been a reviewer for international journals, including Research Policy, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, R&D Management, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Managerial and Decision Economics, Industry and Innovation, and Global Economic Review, and for the Korean journals in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy and policy.
He has been a member of advisory, planning and assessment committees for public policy, officially nominated by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Ministry of Science and ICT in South Korea.
Qualifications
PhD in Management Engineering focused on innovation economics and strategy, KAIST Business School (2011)
MA in Economics with an interdisciplinary major of technology policy, Seoul National University (2003)
BS in Mechanical Engineering, KAIST (2001)
Research Interests and Areas
His research interests cover topics in the fields of innovation, strategic management and entrepreneurship.
His research focuses on the topics and issues including (not limited to):
- The impacts of innovation capability, strategy and technological resources on market performance
- Inter-firm relationship and alliance for innovation
- Growth determinants, path and patterns of new firms
- Regional entrepreneurship, intra-/inter-industry spillovers and agglomeration
- The role and determinants of entrepreneurial finance (VC backing)
- Industrial and innovation policy
- Adoption of Industry 4.0 technology and corporate entrepreneurship
- Technological regimes and industrial/firm-level dynamics
- Organisational/CEO experience, learning and innovation
- University-industry technology transfer commercialization
His research seeks a balance between academic contribution and practical implication as well as academic excellence.
Publications
His papers have been published in leading journals such as Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Managerial and Decision Economics, International Journal of Innovation Management, and Applied Economics Letters.
His research works have been presented at renowned conferences, including the Academy of Management (AOM) Conference, the International Schumpeter Society (ISS) Conference, the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Conference, the DRUID Conference, and Asia Pacific Innovation Conference.
Refer to this: Jungho Kim - Google Scholar
PhD Supervision
Jungho Kim welcomes prospective PhD students who are interested in quantitative research in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, and related strategy and policy, either in relation to the specific research topics above or more broadly.
Managing for Innovation
Digital Start-up
Entrepreneurial Strategy
MBA Individual Project
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Articles
- Kim, J. Subcontracting and firm growth: disentangling the effects of innovation type, level, and appropriability. Applied Economics Letters 2023, 30(8), 177-1081.
- Oh, I, Kim, J. Frontiers and laggards: Which firms benefit from adopting advanced digital technologies?. Managerial and Decision Economics 2023, 44(2), 753-766.
- Cho, Y, Kim, J. Strategic Alliances between Foreign-Owned Firms and Local Firms: The Role of Partner and Industry Types. Global Economic Review 2022, 51(4), 355-376.
- Kim, J. Innovation failure and firm growth: dependence on firm size and age. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 2022, 34(2), 166-179.
- Kim, J, Kollmann, T, Palangkaraya, A, Webster, E. Does local technological specialisation, diversity and dynamic competition enhance firm creation?. Research Policy 2022, 51(7), 104557.
- Kim, J. Cooperative innovation with buyers: how subcontractors and non-subcontractors differ. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 2022.
- Kim, J, Oh, I. Adoption of emerging technologies and growth of manufacturing firms: the importance of technology types and corporate entrepreneurship. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 2022.
- Kim, J. Local multipliers in new firm creation: Inter-sectoral spillovers of entrepreneurship and startup agglomeration. Global Economic Review 2021, 50(3), 213-234.
- Jo Y, Kim J. The impact of experience on private target acquisition in high-technology industries. Sustainability 2019, 11(6), 1603.
- Kim J. Economic Catch-up and Technological Leapfrogging: The Path to Development and Macroeconomic Stability in Korea by Keun Lee, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2016, Pp. 371 + xiv. ISBN: 978 1785 36792 2. Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 2019, 33(2), 145-147.
- Kim J. Does foreign direct investment matter to domestic entrepreneurship? The mediating role of strategic alliances. Global Economic Review 2019, 48(3), 303-319.
- Kim J, Lee CY. Technological regimes and firm survival. Research Policy 2016, 45(1), 232-243.
- Kim J, Lee CY, Cho Y. Technological diversification, core-technology competence, and firm growth. Research Policy 2016, 45(1), 113-124.
- Han J, Kim J. Empirical analysis of technology transfer in Korean universities. International Journal of Innovation Management 2016, 20(8), 1640018.
- Kim J, Lee C-Y. Technological regimes and the persistence of first-mover advantages. Industrial and Corporate Change 2011, 20(5), 1305-1333.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
- Cho Y, Kim J. Foreign Ownership Share and Strategic Alliance Formation: The Larger the Better?. In: Academy of Management Conference (AOM 2019). 2019, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Academy of Management.