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Dr Jungho Kim

Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Background

Jungho Kim is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Newcastle University Business School (NUBS).

Prior to joining the NUBS, he had experience in both academia and practice for twelve years after his PhD at KAIST Business School.

He was an Assistant Professor at Konkuk University and Sunchon National University in South Korea and a Research Fellow (Academic Level B, the level of Lecturer) in the Centre for Transformative Innovation in the School of Business at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. He taught a variety 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 at the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI). While working for the professional thinktanks, he led a variety of research projects for industry, innovation, and 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 participates in the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) peer review group and 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 is an ongoing (lifetime) member of the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration and the Korean Association of Small Business Studies.

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 in technology policy, Seoul National University (2003)

BS in Mechanical Engineering, KAIST (2001)


Research
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
  • Growth determinants, scaleup path and patterns of new firms (startups)
  • Adoption of Industry 4.0 technology; corporate entrepreneurship
  • The role and determinants of entrepreneurial finance (VC backing)
  • Organisational/CEO experience, learning and innovation
  • Inter-firm relationship and alliance for innovation
  • Regional entrepreneurship, intra-/inter-industry spillovers, and agglomeration
  • Industrial and innovation policy
  • Technological regimes and industrial/firm-level dynamics
  • University-industry technology transfer and commercialization

His research seeks a balance between academic contribution and practical implications 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


Recent External Funding and Grant
  • Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Catalyst Fund in partnership with the British Academy: 20,000 CAD as the principal investigator, 2024-2026 (total project funding: 50,000 CAD)
  • ASEAN Plus Three Cooperation Fund: 5,000 USD as the chief editor, 2024-2025 (total project funding: 20,000 USD)


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. 


Teaching

Managing for Innovation


Digital Start-up


Entrepreneurial Strategy


MBA Individual Project

Publications