Key details
Dr Jun Yuan (Julian) Seng
Lecturer in International Business
Dr Julian Seng is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Business at the Executive Business Centre, Greenwich Business School. Julian joined the University of Greenwich in 2023. His research focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation and has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as International Review of Financial Analysis. Julian obtained his PhD in Business at Copenhagen Business School under a fully funded scholarship, where he researched on start-up policy and entrepreneurial ecosystems in Singapore and Hong Kong. He also holds a MSc in Global Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and MA in Global Studies from Leipzig University, both of which were fully funded by the European Union under the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship. He is a Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA) and has over 5 years of teaching experience in Higher Education Institutions such as Copenhagen Business School, King’s College London, and SOAS University of London.
Responsibilities within the university
- Module leader and module development for MBA modules (eg. International Economics and Innovation, International Business Project, Simulated Learning Project)
- Principal investigator for three research projects (Entrepreneurial ecosystem culture, Startup policy, Rural entrepreneurship in Vietnam)
- Personal tutor
Recognition
Fellowship of Advance HE (FHEA)
Research / Scholarly interests
- Entrepreneurial ecosystem
- Entrepreneurship policy
- Open innovation
- Green innovation
- Political economy of development
Key funded projects
- Principal investigator: Understanding culture in entrepreneurial ecosystems (Internal grant – £1000 funded by PEGFA, GBS in 2024)
- Principal investigator: Rural entrepreneurship in Vietnam (Internal grant – £2508 funded by PEGFA, GBS in 2023)
- Co-investigator: Closing open innovation effectively (Internal grant – £2253 funded by NUSC, GBS in 2023)
- Principal investigator: Entrepreneurial ecosystems in Singapore and Hong Kong (External grant – £3418 funded by Otto Monsted Foundation in 2022)
- Principal investigator: Startup-centric innovation policy (External grant – £2051 funded by Knud Højgaards Foundation in 2022)
Recent publications
Jiang, J., Seng, J*. (Corresponding author), Huo, W., & Shi, J. (2024). Mitigating managerial short-sightedness in green technology innovation and corporate financial performance: The role of “National Team” shareholding. International Review of Financial Analysis, 103622. (ABS 3 / IF: 7.5)
Presentations
- Seng, J., Klingler-Vidra, R., Chalmers, A., Pacheco Pardo., R. Startup-centric innovation policy: A text-as-data approach to conceptualizing and operationalizing the policy type. (2023). Paper presented at the International Conference on Industrial Policy, Bangkok, Thailand.
- Jiang, J., Seng. J., Zhang, Q. Closing open innovation in Chinese large high-tech firms: Strengthen control or intention. (2023). Paper presented at the 10th Annual World Open Innovation Conference, Bilbao, Spain.
- Seng, J. Government policy and the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem: A comparative case study of Singapore and Hong Kong. (2022). Paper presented at the International Conference for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Innodays) Conference, Casablanca, Morocco.
- Seng, J. Government policy and the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem: A comparative case study of Singapore and Hong Kong. (2022). Paper presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Seng, J., Klingler-Vidra, R., Chalmers, A., Pacheco Pardo., R.Startup-centric innovation policy: A text-as-data approach to conceptualizing and operationalizing the policy type. (2022). Paper presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Seng, J. Government policy and the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem: A comparative case study of Singapore and Hong Kong. (2022). Paper presented at the Academy of International Business UK&I Annual Meeting, Reading, United Kingdom.