Guowei Dong successfully defended his PhD thesis

Congratulations to Guowei Dong who February 28th 2023 successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Innovation and Internationalization: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises’.

This thesis investigates the relationship between innovation and internationalization in EMEs. Drawing on the empirical studies of EMEs in China’s manufacturing industries, the overarching research question guiding this thesis is: how do international technology learning channels, namely imports, exports, inward FDI and outward FDI affect the innovation performance in EMEs, and in turn how does innovation capability impact EMEs' internationalization? In order to answer this research question and gain a deeper understanding of such relationship in emerging economies, this thesis employs several large data sets and various econometric methods to establish a multi-angle view from three perspectives, each of which is represented in one article.

The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk.

Thank you for the work and support of supervisors and assessment committee members

Primary Supervisor:
Professor Ari Kokko
Department of International Economics, Government and Business
Copenhagen Business School

Secondary Supervisor:
Professor with special responsibilities Björn Jindra
Department of International Economics, Government and Business
Copenhagen Business School

Assessment Committee:
Associate Professor Bersant Hobdari (Chair)
Department of International Economics, Government and Business
Copenhagen Business School

Professor Xiaolan Fu
Green Templeton College
University of Oxford

Professor Sourafel Girma
School of Economics
University of Nottingham

Thank you to CBS PhD School for arranging the PhD Defense and the following reception.