Julia Kirch Hollitsch

Ph.d. stipendiat
Julia Kirch Hollitsch

Porcelænshaven 24, st., 0.60
DK-2000 Frederiksberg

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E-mail: jkh.dbp@cbs.dk

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The field of interest in my research is China and in particular how China – at the same time as transforming itself from being the world’s ‘factory’ to become the leader in green politics – has become a main destination for innovation offshoring. With previous experience with research on the Chinese biotech and biomass sectors and international R&D partnerships, my PhD project focuses on the booming Chinese wind turbine industry, and how Danish/European and Chinese wind turbine companies are engaging in R&D partnerships, or, in what an emerging literature stream on economic globalisation defines as global innovation networks (GINs) (e.g. Ernst, 2002, 2006, 2008; Lall, 2000).

As emerging markets as China are being integrated into the global economy in unprecedented ways, it has become highly topical to update our conceptual tools to this new landscape of economic globalisation (Gereffi et al., 2005; Gibbon et al., 2008; Sturgeon, 2002; Gereffi, 1994; Dicken, 2007). Defined as networks of innovation between firms, research institutions, and national institutions, which are crossing firm-, sector-, and country borders, the notion of GINs reflects such an effort, as it aims to investigate innovation outsourcing (so-called inter-firm GINs), and innovation offshoring (intra-firm GINs) processes (Ernst, 2006). Hence, the aim of my PhD project is to study the seeming emergence of GINs in China within the wind turbine sector – reflecting globalising company-level innovation and innovation management processes – in a comparative perspective between Danish/European and Chinese companies. My PhD project bears the following working title:

‘Global Innovation Networks as Path Creation – Tracing the Construction of Global Innovation Networks between Chinese and Danish/European Wind Turbine Firms’

Empirically, my project is motivated by an interest in mapping what and who is mobilised in the establishment of different GINs within renewable energy sectors in China, how such different forms of collaboration patterns and relations take shape for Chinese firms and Danish/Scandinavian firms respectively and between them, and which challenges and opportunities these pose to Danish and Chinese wind turbine companies in China. Theoretically, it is motivated to contribute to the ongoing work on developing the GIN-framework, e.g. contributing to fill in the gap in the GIN-literature on patterns of collaboration and on the consequences for innovation management. This is e.g. done through a constructivist network-perspective and a focus on the path creating features of these processes, which can add an entrepreneurial impetus to the academic field of economic globalisation.

Primære forskningsområder

China – culture, politics, economy
Global innovation networks, international (formal and informal) R&D partnerships and alliances
Innovation management, innovation processes
Danish and Chinese wind turbine sectors
Construction of ’green’ markets in China
China’s innovation and renewable energy policies
Emerging markets and industrial upgrading, catch-up, and leapfrogging

Sidst opdateret af Mette Grue Nielsen 15.09.2011