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Professor Jing Cai holds a Personal Chair in Innovation at the University of Aberdeen's Business School, Department of Management. Her research focuses on innovation strategy, dynamic capabilities, open innovation, and technology management, particularly in the context of Chinese firms and SMEs. She has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research and collaborative projects across international institutions.
- PhD in Technology Management, University of Sheffield
- MBA, University of Science and Technology, Beijing
- BA in Mechatronics, Tongji University, China
Her research interests include open innovation, corporate governance, AI applications in SMEs, and network embeddedness. She investigates how strategic attention, procedural transparency, and network relationships influence innovation performance and dynamic capability development. Her work bridges engineering backgrounds with management theory, focusing on real-world technological and organizational challenges.
Recent publications highlight trends in open strategizing, attention-based views of innovation, state ownership effects on innovation, and supplier network dynamics. Her research spans both developed and emerging markets, with a strong empirical foundation in Chinese industries, particularly telecommunications and manufacturing.
Professor Cai has been involved in multiple funded research projects, including grants from the ESRC, National Nature Science Foundation of China, and Knowledge Transfer Partnership. While no formal scientific awards are listed, her work appears in top journals such as Research Policy, Long Range Planning, and British Journal of Management.
She collaborates with scholars from the University of Sheffield, Xiamen University, Edinburgh University, Glasgow University, and the University of Manchester. Her advisory roles include supervision of PhD students, though specific names are not listed in the provided text. She has led projects on clinical trial efficiency, e-payment adoption in Nigeria, and IT adoption in Malaysian education.
Her research is supported by labs and centers including the Centre for Labour Market Research and the Africa-Asia Centre for Sustainability, indicating interdisciplinary engagement. She also contributes to teaching and learning initiatives within the Business School.
