Wong Chan-Yuan

Phone: 03-5742442
Fax: 03-5623770
Office: TSMC R843
e-mail: wcy@mx.nthu.edu.tw

English CV

Biography

Chan-Yuan is Professor at the Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and Visiting Professor at SARChI, University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Additionally, he serves as an associate editor for the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change. He has studied and worked across Asia, including Malaysia, Thailand, and Korea. He completed a postdoctoral stint at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and held the position of Senior Lecturer at the University of Malaya from 2011 to August 2018. He has consulted widely on industrial analysis and technology policy for various organizations, including UNCTAD, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan, the Ministry of Science and Technology in Malaysia, and UNIID-SEA in the Philippines. Chan-Yuan has held several visiting positions in Asia and Europe, including as a visiting fellow at UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands in 2015 and as a researcher at Seoul National University, Korea in 2017. Chan-Yuan has published extensively on topics such as technology catch-up in the semiconductor industry, regional innovation systems, analysis of the high-tech industry, and governance issues in middle-income economies. His book titled "Experimental Learning, Inclusive Growth, and Industrialized Economies in Asia: Lessons from South Korea and Taiwan" was published by Palgrave Macmillan in August 2022.

Chan-Yuan joined Institute of Technology Management of NTHU in Sept 2018. The followings are courses he has taught at NTHU.

  • Analysis of High-tech Industry (for Master students)
  • Technology Marketing (for Master students)
  • Science and Technology Policy Studies (for Ph.D. students)
  • Management Studies(for Undergraduates)
  • Business Models and Innovation Analytics (for Master students)
  • International Business Management (for professional Master students)
  • Academic Qualification

  • Ph.D (Faculty of Economics and Administration), University of Malaya, Malaysia
  • Areas of Expertise

  • Strategic Business Management Studies (Growth Strategies in SMEs, Business Model Innovation)
  • Innovation and Development (Science and Technology Policy, Research Evaluation, Innovation Systems of Asian Economies)
  • Regional Studies/Development Studies (Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Regional Innovation System, Middle-income Trap Economies, Economics of Catch-up)
  • Science and Technology Studies (Technology and Society, Scientometrics)
  • Recent (Selected) Publications

  • Wong, C-Y. and Russell, C. (2024), A search dilemma for market niches: Korea and Taiwan in a time of US-China high-tech decoupling, Global Policy, 15, 2, pp. 475-486
  • Wong, C-Y., Sheu, J. and Lee, K. (2023), Assessing the quest of SMEs in pivoting for new technological ventures: comparing the patenting indexes of seven developed cities, Scientometrics, 128, pp. 4029-4064
  • Wong, C-Y., Wang, I-K., Sheu, J. and Hu, M-C. (2022), What network orientation supports the development of a Resilient City? Evidence from the innovation systems of eighty-seven cities, Cities, 131, 103923
  • Wong, C-Y. and Lee, K. (2022), Evolution of Innovation Systems of Two Industrial Districts in East Asia: Transformation and Upgrade from a Peripheral System and the Role of the Core Firms, Samsung and TSMC, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 32,pp. 955-990
  • Ng, B-K., Wong, C-Y. and Santos, M.G.P. (2022), Grassroots Innovation: Scenario, Policy and Governance, Journal of Rural Studies, 90, pp. 1-12
  • Barr-Kumarakulasinghe C., B-K., Ng and Wong, C-Y.(2021), Governing the progress of internet-ofthings: Ambivalence in the quest of technology exploitation and user rights protection, Technology in Society, 64, 101463