Jun Yuan (Julian) Seng

Dr Jun Yuan (Julian) Seng PhD, MSc, MA, B.Soc.Sci

Lecturer in International Business

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 interests lie in entrepreneurship, innovation, and more broadly development studies. Julian obtained his PhD in International Business at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) 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. Prior to working at University of Greenwich, he taught at CBS, King’s College London, and SOAS University of London.

Responsibilities within the university

  • Module leader and module development for postgraduate and undergraduate modules (eg. International Economics and Innovation, Business Environment and Economic Trends)
  • Principal investigator for three research projects (Entrepreneurial ecosystem culture, Startup policy, Rural entrepreneurship in Vietnam)
  • Personal tutor

Research / Scholarly interests

  • Entrepreneurial ecosystem
  • Entrepreneurship policy
  • Open innovation
  • Political economy of development
  • Start-ups/SMEs

Key funded projects

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)

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.

Jie, 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.