麻豆传媒

Jungho Kim is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at 麻豆传媒 Business School (NUBS).

Before joining the NUBS, he gained combined academic and professional experience after completing his PhD.

He previously held academic appointments at universities. He was an Assistant Professor at Konkuk University and Sunchon National University in South Korea, and a Research Fellow (Academic Level B, equivalent to Lecturer) in the Centre for Transformative Innovation within 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 across undergraduate and postgraduate (PGT and PGR) levels. He also supervised PGR (Master by Research and PhD) students.

He also brings significant experience from professional organisations into academia. He worked for the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET) and the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI). While working for these think tanks, he led a wide range of projects for industry, innovation, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). His work included field studies, case analyses and interviews of industries, firms, startups and venture capitals, programme assessment and consulting, and grant and subsidy application reviews. He also provided professional services for public and private organisations.

He has contributed actively to the academic community. He has served on the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) and the Engineering Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) IAA peer review group. He was the editorial board member of the Asia Pacific Journal of Small Business. He has been a reviewer for international journals, including Research Policy, Journal of Management Studies, R&D Management, Industry and Innovation, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Managerial and Decision Economics, and Global Economic Review, as well as for Korean journals in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy and policy. He is a member of the British Academy of Management and the Entrepreneurial Judgement Society and a lifetime member of the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration and the Korean Association of Small Business Studies.

He served on advisory, planning and assessment committees for public policy related to innovation and entrepreneurship. He has been a committee member officially appointed by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Ministry of Science and ICT in South Korea.

Qualifications

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK (2024)

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 Interests and Areas

His research interests cover topics in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship and strategy. 

His research focuses on the topics and issues including (not limited to):

• Innovation capability, strategy, technological resources, and their impact on firm performance
• Innovation behaviour, technological regimes, corporate change, and industrial dynamics
• Determinants and patterns in innovation, entrepreneurial strategy, and growth of tech-based startups
• Determinants and roles of entrepreneurial finance (early-stage funding and venture capital)
• Organisational entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial orientation and corporate entrepreneurship)
• Regional entrepreneurship, intra- or inter-industry knowledge spillovers, and agglomeration
• Adoption of emerging technologies (including Industry 4.0) and their implications for innovation
• Inter-firm relationships, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and strategic alliances for innovation
• Founder and CEO experience, learning and innovation behaviour

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 (ABS 4*, FT Top 50 journal), Industrial and Corporate Change (ABS 3), Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Managerial and Decision Economics, Global Economic Review, 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, the British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference, and the Asia Pacific Innovation Conference.

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Recent External Funding and Grant

• Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Catalyst Fund in partnership with the British Academy: Principal Investigator, 2024-2026
• ASEAN Plus Three Cooperation Fund: Chief Editor (Lead), 2024-2025

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. 

NBS8498 Managing for Innovation

NBS8497 Entrepreneurship

NBS9131 Entrepreneurial Strategy

NBS8323 Digital Start-up

EIN2017 Introduction to Innovation and Technology Management

MKT2004 Research Methods for Management and Marketing

NBS8523 MBA Individual Project

NBS8627 Dissertation (MSc EIS)

• Articles

  • Lee K, Kim J, Zehavi A. . Industrial and Corporate Change 2026, 35(1), 243–260.
  • Kim J, Marzocchi C. . Industrial and Corporate Change 2025, epub ahead of print.
  • Kim J. . Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 2024, 36(6), 1179-1193.
  • Kim J, Oh I. . Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 2024, 36(10), 2476-2488.
  • Kim, J. . Applied Economics Letters 2023, 30(8), 177-1081.
  • Oh, I, Kim, J. . Managerial and Decision Economics 2023, 44(2), 753-766.
  • Cho, Y, Kim, J. . Global Economic Review 2022, 51(4), 355-376.
  • Kim, J. . Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 2022, 34(2), 166-179.
  • Kim, J, Kollmann, T, Palangkaraya, A, Webster, E. . Research Policy 2022, 51(7), 104557.
  • Kim, J. . Global Economic Review 2021, 50(3), 213-234.
  • Jo Y, Kim J. . Sustainability 2019, 11(6), 1603.
  • Kim J. . Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 2019, 33(2), 145-147.
  • Kim J. . Global Economic Review 2019, 48(3), 303-319.
  • Kim J, Lee CY. . Research Policy 2016, 45(1), 232-243.
  • Kim J, Lee CY, Cho Y. . Research Policy 2016, 45(1), 113-124.
  • Han J, Kim J. . International Journal of Innovation Management 2016, 20(8), 1640018.
  • Kim J, Lee C-Y. . Industrial and Corporate Change 2011, 20(5), 1305-1333.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Kim J. . In: British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference. 2025, Kent: British Academy of Management.
  • Kim, J. Entrepreneurial orientation and external knowledge search for innovation. In: Asia Pacific Innovation Conference 2022. 2022, Incheon, South Korea.
  • Cho Y, Kim J. . In: Academy of Management Conference (AOM 2019). 2019, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Academy of Management.
  • Kim, J. The impact of foreign greenfield vs acquisition investment on domestic new firm creation: Accounting for types of industries and strategic alliances. In: 2018 Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference. 2018.
  • Kim J. Differential effects of foreign direct investment and strategic alliances on domestic entry: A cross-industry comparison. In: The 17th International Schumpeter Society (ISS) Conference. 2018.
  • Doran P, Thomson R, Kim J. To what extent does corporate research contribute to basic scientific advance?. In: The 8th Asia Pacific Innovation Conference (APIC). 2017.
  • Kim, J, Palangkaraya, A, Jo, Y. Experience matters: the impact of early VC-backing and prior M&A on private target acquisitions by public firms. In: The 8th Asia Pacific Innovation Conference (APIC). 2017.
  • Kim J, Jo Y. Early VC-backing, M&A experience, and acquisitions of private firms by high-tech firms. In: The 2017 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Special Conference. 2017.
  • Kim J, Cho Y, Lee C-Y. Technological diversification, core technology competence, and firm growth. In: The 9th International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC). 2011.
  • Kim J, Lee C-Y. Technological regimes and the patterns of firm survival. In: The Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID) Society 2010 Summer Conference. 2010.
  • Kim J, Lee C-Y. The relationship between R&D and market share: The Schumpeterian hypothesis revisited and its implications. In: The 6th International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC). 2008.
  • Kim J, Lee C-Y. The persistence of first-mover advantages: A re-examination and its link with technological regimes. In: The 6th International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC). 2008.
  • Kim, J, Lee, C-Y. R&D-based model of firm growth. In: The 34th European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) Conference. 2007.
  • Kim J, Lee C-Y. Two faces of learning in new-firm survival. In: The 4th International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC). 2006.
  • Kim J, Lee C-Y. Effects of learning and technological regimes on firm survival. In: The 11th International Schumpeter Society (ISS) Conference. 2006.

• Report

  • Kim J, Ajmone Marsan G, Dung TT, Huabsomboon S. . ASEAN Plus Three Startup Program, 2025.