Profile

Chan-Yuan is presently a faculty at Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) of Taiwan. He received his Ph.D from the Faculty of Economics and Administration at University of Malaya, Malaysia. He had assumed a postdoctaral stint at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Chulalongkorn University of Thailand and served as Senior Lecturer at University of Malaya from 2011-Aug 2018. During his tenure at University of Malaya, he held several consulting appointments at Malaysia's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT), Multimedia Development Corporation and IDRC (Canada)-sponsored research entities in Asia. He has also held several visiting positions in Asia and Europe including visiting fellow at the UNU-MERIT of the Netherlands in 2015 and researcher at Seoul National University, Korea in 2017. He has published extensively on the topics of catch-up industrialization, governance issues in middle-income economies and scientific publishing/patenting competencies.

Chan-Yuan joined Institute of Technology Management of NTHU in Sept 2018. He conducts research in the areas of scientometrics and innovation studies. The followings are courses he has taught at NTHU.

• Analysis of High-tech Industry (for Master students)
• Technology Marketing (for Master students)
• Science and Technology Policy Studies (for Ph.D. students)
• Management Studies(for Undergraduates)
• Business Models and Innovation Analytics (for Master students)
• International Business Management (for professional Master students)

Selected Publication

• Wong, C-Y. (2022), Experimental Learning, Inclusive Growth and Industrialised Economies in Asia: Lessons from South Korea and Taiwan, Palgrave Macmillan: Singapore.
• Wong, C-Y., Wang, I-K., Sheu, J. and Hu, M-C. (2022), What network orientation supports the development of a Resilient City? Evidence from the innovation systems of eighty-seven cities, Cities, 131, 103923
• Wong, C-Y. and Lee, K. (2022), Evolution of Innovation Systems of Two Industrial Districts in East Asia: Transformation and Upgrade from a Peripheral System and the Role of the Core Firms, Samsung and TSMC, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 32,pp. 955-990
• Ng, B-K., Wong, C-Y. and Santos, M.G.P. (2022), Grassroots Innovation: Scenario, Policy and Governance, Journal of Rural Studies, 90, pp. 1-12
• Barr-Kumarakulasinghe C., B-K., Ng and Wong, C-Y.(2021), Governing the progress of internet-ofthings: Ambivalence in the quest of technology exploitation and user rights protection, Technology in Society, 64, 101463
• Gomez, E-T., Cheong, K-C. and Wong, C-Y. (2021), Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining In The Middle-Income Trap: The Case of Malaysia, Journal of Contemporary Asia,51,5,pp. 782-802
• Wong, C-Y. and Elbegsaikhan, M. (2020), Geographical Indications in Development Contexts: Function, Supply Chain and Pursuit of Rural Industrial Development, The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 23,5-6, pp.712-735
• Wong, C-Y. (2019), A Century of Scientific Publication: Towards a Theorization of Growth Behavior and Research?Orientation, Scientometrics, 119, Issue 1, pp 357-377
• Wong, C-Y. Ng, B-K., Azizan, S. A., & Hasbullah, M. (2018). Knowledge structures of City Innovation Systems: Singapore and Hong Kong. Journal of Urban Technology, 25, 1, pp. 47-73

Research Interests

• Strategic Business Management Studies (Growth Strategies in SMEs, Business Model Innovation)
• Innovation and Development (Science and Technology Policy, Research Evaluation, Innovation Systems of Asian Economies)
•  Science and Technology Studies (Technology and Society, Scientometrics)
• Development Studies (Middle-income Trap Economies, Economics of Catching-up, Entrepreneurship and Regional
  Development)

Teaching