Staff Profile

Jungho Kim is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Newcastle University Business School (NUBS).

Before joining the NUBS, he worked in both academia and practice for 12 years after obtaining his PhD at KAIST Business School.

He worked as an Assistant Professor at Konkuk University and Sunchon National University in South Korea and as a Research Fellow (Academic Level B, the level of Lecturer) in the Centre for Transformative Innovation in School of Business at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. He taught a range of courses for innovation and technology management, strategic management, venture management and quantitative analysis at the undergraduate and postgraduate (PGT, PGR) levels. He also supervised PGR (Master and PhD) students.

He worked as an Associate Research Fellow (project manager level) at the Korea Institute for Industrial and Economics and Trade (KIET) and Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI). While working for the professional institutes, he managed a variety of research projects for industry, innovation, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). He also conducted field studies, case analyses and interviews of industries, SMEs, startups and venture capitals, program assessment and consulting, and grant/subsidy application review and provided professional services for public and private organisations.

He is a member of the editorial board of Asia Pacific Journal of Smal Business. He has been a reviewer for international journals, including Research Policy, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, R&D Management, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Managerial and Decision Economics, Industry and Innovation, Applied Economics Letters, Global Economic Review and Asian-Pacific Economic Literature and the Korean journals in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy, and policy.

He has been a member of advisory, planning and assessment committees for public policy, officially nominated by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Ministry of Science and ICT in South Korea.

Qualifications

PhD in Management Engineering focused on innovation economics and strategy, KAIST Business School (2011)

MA in Economics with an interdisciplinary major of technology policy, Seoul National University (2003)

BS in Mechanical Engineering, KAIST (2001)

His research interests cover topics in the fields of innovation, strategic management and entrepreneurship. 

His research focuses on the topics and issues regarding the impacts of innovation capability, strategy and technological resources on market performance, inter-firm relationship and alliances for innovation, the growth path and patterns of new firms, regional entrepreneurship, the role and determinants of entrepreneurial finance (VC backing), industrial and innovation policy, adoption of Industry 4.0 technology and corporate entrepreneurship, industrial/firm-level dynamics and technological regimes, and university-industry technology transfer commercialization. His research seeks a balance between academic contribution and practical implication as well as academic excellence due to his balanced career.

His papers have been published in leading journals such as Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Managerial and Decision Economics, International Journal of Innovation Management, Applied Economics Letters, Global Economic Review, and Asian-Pacific Economic Literature. His research works have been presented at renowned conferences, including the Academy of Management (AOM) Conference, the International Schumpeter Society (ISS) Conference, the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Conference, the DRUID Conference, and Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference.

Managing for Innovation

Digital Start-up

MBA Individual Project

Entrepreneurial Strategy

• Articles

  • Kim, J. Subcontracting and firm growth: disentangling the effects of innovation type, level, and appropriability. Applied Economics Letters 2023, 30(8), 177-1081.
  • Oh, I, Kim, J. Frontiers and laggards: Which firms benefit from adopting advanced digital technologies?. Managerial and Decision Economics 2023, 44(2), 753-766.
  • Cho, Y, Kim, J. Strategic Alliances between Foreign-Owned Firms and Local Firms: The Role of Partner and Industry Types. Global Economic Review 2022, 51(4), 355-376.
  • Kim, J. Innovation failure and firm growth: dependence on firm size and age. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 2022, 34(2), 166-179.
  • Kim, J, Kollmann, T, Palangkaraya, A, Webster, E. Does local technological specialisation, diversity and dynamic competition enhance firm creation?. Research Policy 2022, 51(7), 104557.
  • Kim, J. Cooperative innovation with buyers: how subcontractors and non-subcontractors differ. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 2022.
  • Kim, J, Oh, I. Adoption of emerging technologies and growth of manufacturing firms: the importance of technology types and corporate entrepreneurship. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 2022.
  • Kim, J. Local multipliers in new firm creation: Inter-sectoral spillovers of entrepreneurship and startup agglomeration. Global Economic Review 2021, 50(3), 213-234.
  • Jo, Y, Kim, J. The impact of experience on private target acquisition in high-technology industries. Sustainability 2019, 11(6), 1603.
  • Kim, J. Review of Economic Catch‐up and Technological Leapfrogging. Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 2019, 33(2), 145-147.
  • Kim, J. Does foreign direct investment matter to domestic entrepreneurship? The mediating role of strategic alliances. Global Economic Review 2019, 48(3), 303-319.
  • Kim, J, Lee, CY. Technological regimes and firm survival. Research Policy 2022, 45(45), 232-243.
  • Kim, J, Lee, CY, Cho, Y. Technological diversification, core-technology competence, and firm growth. Research Policy 2016, 45(1), 113-124.
  • Han, J, Kim, J. Empirical analysis of technology transfer in Korean universities. International Journal of Innovation Management 2016, 20(8), 1640018.
  • Kim, J. Technological regimes and the persistence of first-mover advantages. Industrial and Corporate Change 2011, 20(5), 1305-1333.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Cho, Y, Kim, J. Foreign Ownership Share and Strategic Alliance Formation: The Larger the Better?. In: Academy of Management Conference. 2023.