Yuan Zhou

Associate Professor with Tenure at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management

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Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management

ZHOU Yuan (Joseph) is the Associate Professor with Tenure at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University (China). He also serves as the Assistant Director of China Institute for Engineering Development Strategies. He is also a guest (senior) lecturer at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). His recent research interests include public policy, innovation policy, and innovation management.

His ongoing projects involve “Technology Foresight with Big-data and Machine Learning Methods”, “Public demonstration projects for strategic emerging industries in China”, “Strategic roadmapping methods for new energy technologies in China”, “Technological trajectories for climate change mitigation in Europe, China and lndia”, and “High-value engineering network in Europe and China”, etc. Based on these projects, he has published several papers in Industrial & Corporate Change, Science and Public Policy, Technological Forecasting & Social Change (TFSC), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (TEM), Nano Energy (IF=13.2), Engineering (Chinese Academy of Engineering Journal), Journal of Cleaner Production, Energy Policy, Scientometrics, Sustainable Development, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, International Journal of Technology Management, etc.

He serves as the Associate Editor of Technovation, and as the Department Editor of IEEE TEM, as well as the guest editor of IEEE TEM, R&D Management, and Scientometrics. He also serves as the editorial board member of TFSC. He received his PhD degree (technology management) from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2010. Prior to his PhD, Joseph was a manager at Cascadia Capital on technology commercialization & transfer practice. Before that, he was a manager at Nanyang Techno-entrepreneurship Centre, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), involving in technology entrepreneurship activities. ZHOU Yuan holds B.Eng and M.Sc degree from Nanyang Technological University.

Research area: Public policy, Innovation management, Innovation policy Research projects: National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 91646102, L1624045, L1524015, and 71203117), the Humanities and Social Science Project by the Ministry of Education of China (16JDGC011, 12YJC630324), the Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program (20111081076 and 20111081023), the Tsinghua-component of EC-HVEN European framework 7 project (No. 295130), Volvo-supported project of the Research Center for Green Economy and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University (20153000181), etc.

Teaching Duties

Zhou Yuan is teaching following courses (in both Mandarin and English): Public Policy Analysis, Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Social Science Research Methodologies, Thesis Writing and Research Design, etc.

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