Professor of Strategic Management and Development
PhD, MA and BA (Hons)
Richard Li-Hua, PhD, is Professor of Strategic Management and Development and Director of International Centre for Research, Innovation, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship (RISE) at Sunderland Business School. He is a world leading expert on technology and innovation and an internationally recognized authority on international technology transfer and Chinese business and management. He is a frequent speaker at international conference publishes frequently in leading international journals.
Richard’s current research interests lies in the effectiveness and appropriateness of international technology transfer and IP implementation, which attracts attention of the EU and MOST in China. Richard’s passion was and is that how competitive advantage and sustainability can be delivered through robust technology strategy and appropriate technology management. Thus he launched in early 2006 China Association for Management of Technology (CAMOT), which has genuinely become an international forum for debating and provoking the current and strategic thinking of how core competences can be achieved through strategic management of technology and innovation.