Hsing-Fen received her PhD (ESRC +3 scholarship) from the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Her research focuses on digital talent/innovation crowdsourcing, knowledge workers and their careers, sources and use of knowledge in firms, inter-organisational innovation collaborations, and academic engagements and commercialisation. She has led research projects supported by the British Academy of Management, the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust and the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). She has published papers in leading journals such as Research Policy, British Journal of Management, Technovation and Journal of Technology Transfer. She sits in the editorial board of Research Policy, and has served as the External Examiner for King’s Business School, King’s College London.

Hsing-Fen has a background in chemical engineering (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), technology management (UMIST) and social research methods and statistics (CCSR, University of Manchester). She has work experience in Unilever Taiwan and the Taiwanese Science and Technology Council before entering academia. She is passionate about innovation and its impact on economic growth and society. Her research has been widely featured in various Government and Think Tank publications. These organisations include UK Productivity Institute, UK Intellectual Property Office, US RAND Corporation, European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Inter-American Development Bank, Korean Science and Technology Policy Institute, Northern Ireland Executive and Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova.

Hsing-Fen welcomes PhD applicants interested in the following areas:

• Digital talent/innovation crowdsourcing
• Open innovation
• University-industry collaboration
• Academic entrepreneurship
• Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS)
• Knowledge workers and their careers