Dean's Chair, Academic Director, Master of Science in Management of Technology and Innovation
Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management
Education
Ph.D. Technology Management and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S. Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. Biomedical Engineering and B.S. Electrical Engineering (Minor in Mathematics), Johns Hopkins University
Awards and Honours
NUS Dean’s Chair (In Recognition of Outstanding and Impactful Scholarly Accomplishments), 2023-Present
Management and Organization Review (MOR) Distinguished Deputy Editor Award (Winner), 2024
E. SUN Academic Award (for outstanding academic publication) (Winner), 2024
NUS University Annual Teaching Excellence Award (Winner), 2024
NUS College Educator Award (for Outstanding Contribution to Education and Teaching) (Winner), 2022-2023
Management and Organization Review (MOR) Best Senior Editor Award (Winner), 2023
Asian Society for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Science Conference Best Paper (Winner), 2022
Strategic Management Society Annual Conference Best Paper Prize (Finalist), 2022
Academy of Management Annual Conference Best Paper (Top 5-10% of Accepted Papers), 2008, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2022
NUS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (Winner), 2019-2020
NUS Engineering Educator Award (for Outstanding Contribution to Education and Teaching) (Winner), 2018-2019
China Intellectual Property Policy and Management Conference Excellent Paper Award (Winner), 2019
NUS (University-wide) Annual Teaching Excellence Award (Nominee), 2016-2017, 2018-2019
NUS Faculty Teaching Award Honors List (Winner), 2016-2017
DRUID Asia Conference Best Paper Award (Winner), 2016
AOM Carolyn Dexter Award for Best Paper in Strategy and International Management (Nominee), 2015
SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB) Dean’s Teaching Honor List (Top 20 Faculty Members), 2009-2015
Strategic Management Society Conference Best Paper Prize (Finalist), 2012
Sing Lun Fellowship (1 of 2 Faculty Awardees for Outstanding Research across All SMU Schools), 2010-2012
Academy of International Business Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar (Runner-up), 2011
SMU Most Promising Teacher Award (1 of 3 Nominees in School of Business), 2010
SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB) Research Excellence Award (Nominee), 2009
Academy of Management Technology Innovation Management Best Dissertation Award (Finalist), 2007
INFORMS Technology Management Section Best Dissertation Award (Runner-up), 2007
Research Interests
Management of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (AI, Biotech, Life Sciences, and IT)
Science Policy
Innovation and Intellectual Property Strategies in Emerging Economies (China)
Institutional Change
Selected Publications
Huang, K.G.*, Li, M.-X., Shen, C. H.-H. and Y. Wang (2024). Escaping the Patent Trolls: The Impact of Non-Practicing Entity Litigation on Firm Innovation Strategies. Strategic Management Journal, 45(10): 1954-1987. (*Corresponding author)
Huang, K.G.*, Jia, N. and Y. Ge (2024). Forced to Innovate? Consequences of United States’ Anti-Dumping Sanctions on Innovations of Chinese Exporters. Research Policy, 53(1): 104899. (*Corresponding author)
Ding, J., Wang, A., Huang, K.G.*, Zhang, Q. and S. Yang (2024). Improving Large-scale Classification in Technology Management: Making Full Use of Label Information for Professional Technical Documents. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Forthcoming. (*Corresponding author)
Miric, M., Jia, N. and K.G. Huang (2023). Using Supervised Machine Learning for Large-scale Classification in Management Research: The Case for Identifying Artificial Intelligence Patents. Strategic Management Journal, 44(2): 491-519.
Wan, G., Wang, H., Geng, X. and K.G. Huang (2023). Natural Disasters and Corporate Philanthropy: A Double Movement Perspective. Management and Organization Review, 19(1): 98-137.
Ang, Y.Y., Jia, N., Yang, B. and K.G. Huang (2023). China’s Low-Productivity Innovation Drive: Evidence from Patents. Comparative Political Studies, Published online first.
Jain, A. and K.G. Huang* (2022). Learning from the Past: How Prior Experience Impacts the Value of Innovation after Scientist Relocation. Journal of Management, 48(3): 571-604. (*Authors contributed equally)
Huang, K.G., C. Huang, H. Shen and H. Mao (2021). Assessing the Value of China’s Patented Inventions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 170: 120868.
Huang, K.G.* and J.T. Li (2019). Adopting Knowledge from Reverse Innovations? Transnational Patents and Signaling from an Emerging Economy. Journal of International Business Studies, 50(7): 1078-1102 (*Corresponding author)
Chua, R.Y.J., K.G. Huang* and M. Jin (2019). Mapping Cultural Tightness and its Links to Innovation, Urbanization, and Happiness across 31 Provinces in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 116(14): 6720-6725 (*Corresponding author; Authorship listed alphabetically – equal contribution)
Jia, N., K.G. Huang* and C.M. Zhang (2019). Public Governance, Corporate Governance and Firm Innovation: An Examination of State-owned Enterprises. Academy of Management Journal, 62(1): 220-247 (*Corresponding author)
Wright, M., V. Tartari, K.G. Huang, F. Di Lorenzo and J. Bercovitz* (2018). Knowledge Worker Mobility in Context: Pushing the Boundaries of Theory and Methods. Journal of Management Studies, 55(1): 1-26 (*Authorship listed in reverse alphabetical order; authors contributed equally)
Huang, K.G., X. Geng and H. Wang (2017). Institutional Regime Shift in Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Strategies of Firms in China. Organization Science, 28(2): 355-377
Huang, K.G. (2017). Uncertain Intellectual Property Conditions and Knowledge Appropriation Strategies: Evidence from the Genomics Industry. Industrial and Corporate Change, 26(1): 41-71
Huang, K.G. and G. Ertug (2014). Mobility, Retention and Productivity of Genomics Scientists in the U.S. Nature Biotechnology, 32(9): 953-958
Huang, K.G. and F.E. Murray (2010). Entrepreneurial Experiments in Science Policy: Analyzing the Human Genome Project. Research Policy, 39(5): 567-582 (Lead Article)
Huang, K.G. and F.E. Murray (2009). Does Patent Strategy Shape the Long-run Supply of Public Knowledge? Evidence from Human Genetics. Academy of Management Journal, 52(6): 1193-1221
Gabel, D.J. and K.G. Huang* (2008). Promoting Innovation and the Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications Services to Businesses. Contemporary Economic Policy, 26(2): 229-247 (*Authorship listed alphabetically)
