Theme: Higher education institutions efficacy and higher order learning: theories, policies and practices
Speaker: Dr. Elias G. Carayannis, Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the School of Business of George Washington University in Washington, DC
Time: May, 2 at 13.00-14.30 (Helsinki time)/ 18.00-19.30 (Beijing time)
Speaker bio:
Dr. Elias G. Carayannis is a Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the School of Business of George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is also the co-Founder and co-Director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) and the Director of the European Union Research Center (EURC). Dr. Carayannis’ expertise lies in the areas of strategic Government-University-Industry R&D partnerships, technology transfer and commercialization, international science and technology policy, technological entrepreneurship, and regional economic development. He has published extensively, with over sixty books and numerous articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Technovation. Additionally, Dr. Carayannis is the founding Editor-in-Chief of multiple book series and reference works, such as the Edward Elgar Book Series on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and two Springer journals: Journal of the Knowledge Economy and Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Dr. Carayannis is a sought-after consultant for technology-driven organizations in both government and the private sector, including the World Bank, the European Commission, and the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Program. He is multilingual and fluent in English, French, German, Greek, with a working knowledge of Spanish.
Moderator:
Dr. Yuzhuo Cai is Senior Lecturer and Adjunct Professor at the Higher Education Group (HEG), Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland. He has been with the HEG for 20 years and was the Acting Professor of the unit from August 2013 to July 2014. He is the Director of Sino-Finnish Education Research Centre, a network organisation involving over 20 Chinese and Finnish universities, and the Deputy Director of Research Centre on Transnationalism and Transformation (TRANSIT), an interdisciplinary research centre spanning three faculties at Tampere University. He is also in the coordination group of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Research Tampere Network and the coordination group of Think Tank for China, SGroup Universities in Europe. He is Editor-in-Chief of Triple Helix and Co-Editor of Journal of Studies in International Education. His main interests are in higher education research and innovation studies, focusing on interactions between higher education and society also on the international dimension. He has published more than 130 academic publications in these fields, including those in prestigious journals, such as Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, International Journal of Management Reviews, Technovation, Minerva, Science and Public Policy, European Planning Studies and Scientometrics.
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yuzhuo_Cai
Google Scholars: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-7WAlH4AAAAJ&hl=en