Professor Jie Wu

Biography

Professor Jie Wu

Chair Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Co-Director, Africa-Asia Centre for Sustainability Research

University of Aberdeen, UK

Professor Jie Wu is a renowned scholar in strategy, international business, and digital innovation, with over 80 publications in premier academic journals, including those listed among the Financial Times Top 50 and the UTD Top 24, including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Research Policy. His research spans corporate governance, digital inclusion, female entrepreneurship, AI, renewable energy, and culture and institutions. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

He serves as Area Editor for Technovation, Regional Editor for Asia Pacific Business Review, and Associate Editor for Asian Business & Management. He has co-edited special issues for journals such as MIR, TR-E, and EMJ, shaping scholarly dialogue in strategy, innovation, and international business.

Professor Wu has been consistently ranked among the top 1% of scientists worldwide in 2021–2022, 2022–2023, and 2023–2024 by Stanford University, based on a comprehensive evaluation of scholars across 149 countries

Collaborations

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue Technovation

Digital Technologies and Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets

This special issue (SI) explores how digital technologies can be better utilized to enhance crowdfunding for entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Entrepreneurial funding in the early stages poses challenges, but the appeal of distributed online financing for new ventures is increasing due to accelerated innovation and market adoption rates. While online social networking initially emerged as a consumer-focused service, entrepreneurs are now leveraging both formal and informal networks to gather capital. Crowdfunding, a type of venture funding obtained through crowdsourcing, has become a rapidly growing online ecosystem. Resource-constrained entrepreneurs are turning to crowdfunding as an innovative way to manage capital by pre-emptively securing funds for production and sales (Frydrych, et al., 2014; Harrison 2013). Rather than pitching to professional investors, entrepreneurs target "amateurs" or consumers with shared interests to pre-finance their services or products. Crowdfunding helps mitigate the risk of underfunding a project for both entrepreneurs and investors since investments are only executed when the minimum funding threshold is met.

In emerging or developing countries with limited access to digital technologies, offline crowdfunding activities still hold significance. These activities include community-based crowdfunding, offline crowdfunding events, local business sponsorships, traditional savings and lending circles, and print media/flyers. However, in recent times, crowdfunding platforms have attracted funding from a wider range of investors to allow entrepreneurs to showcase their ideas and projects to a large audience.

This SI will provide a more solid understanding of the potential to improve funding availability for entrepreneurs. This is likely to democratize access to funding in emerging markets, and open opportunities globally. Thus, it is important to examine the role of digital technologies in supporting crowdfunding in emerging markets’ entrepreneurial ventures.

Timeline:

• Submissions start: April 1, 2024
• Submission deadline: June 30, 2024
• Expected date of publication online by the end of Spring 2026

Detail：https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/technovation/about/call-for-papers

Teaching Responsibilities

60+ MBA (Aberdeen campus)

Course coordinator

EMBA Shanghai – short course

EMBA London - guest lecture

EMBA Shanghai 

7 Courses moderator

All levels student supervision

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