School of Entrepreneurship and Management Holds the First Academic Workshop on the Intersection of Science, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

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SEM hosted its first academic workshop on the Intersection of Science, Entrepreneurship,

and Innovation on October 21st and 22nd at our new campus in Zhang Jiang. 22

academicians from all over the world came to speak on the topic of spatial and

institutional factors that facilitate creative and entrepreneurial success in science and

business. The papers examined environments as small as a university all the way to cities

and regional structures which support innovation. 



ShanghaiTech Vice President and Provost Dr. Jie Yin gave an opening address where

he extended a warm welcome to all the speakers and participants. Dr. Yin introduced

the development of ShanghaiTech University and emphasized SEM’s important role in

innovation and entrepreneurship education at ShanghaiTech. The Dean of SEM, May Lee,

introduced SEM’s educational mission revolves around imparting the skills and knowledge

of business, innovation and entrepreneurship to young scientists. She hoped that the

workshop could stimulate conversations, both theoretical and practical, on the nature

of innovation and entrepreneurship, the role of a city in creating the necessary ecosystem

to support these activities, and how Shanghai might apply some of this wisdom for its

future growth. Professor David Andersson then introduced the research areas of different

speakers and their potential impact on the research of SEM’s young faculty members. 

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The workshop began with a keynote speech by Professor Rogers Hollingsworth, Emeritus

Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a leading

authority on the history of creativity in science. His address entitled Entrepreneurship

and Innovation in a Rapidly Changing Global Environment presented Professor

Hollingsworth’s multi-year research effort on Nobel, Lasker and other prize-winning

scientists and what makes them successful. He also shared his research on what factors

contribute to a successful lab. The keynote speech was followed by eighteen 45-minute

paper presentations divided into two parallel sessions. A closing panel discussion on the

creativity challenges that Shanghai would have to face as it restructures its economy concluded 

the workshop.


May moderated the discussion, which featured Rogers Hollingsworth, Peter Gordon

(Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California), Karen King (Martin

Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto), and Alex Wang, former General Manager

of edX China. Each speaker brought a new lens to the topics of entrepreneurship and

innovation in the science and technology sector. 

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The workshop resulted in several substantive achievements, such as tentative agreements

regarding special issues of SSCI-indexed journals and invited contributions to edited

volumes with international academic publishers. The participants also reached an

agreement to institutionalize this event as an annual conference, with a gradual expansion

so as to reach a growing international constituency of scholars. Moreover, several SEM

professors initiated individual research projects together with colleagues from Europe,

North America, and elsewhere. The conference attracted paper presenters from four

continents, and non-presenting participants from Chinese universities in several cities

as well as members of the international community of entrepreneurs in Shanghai.



SEM pursues the creation of transformative knowledge to illuminate and inform

entrepreneurship and innovation in the science and technology sector by leveraging the

synergy between the behavioral sciences and economics in research and through vehicles

such as this workshop. We aim to generate new insights that in turn generate new

knowledge and additional research questions, and believe our approach to business and

science will yield valuable nuggets for policymakers and businesses.



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