Chan-Yuan Wong

Chan-Yuan is presently a faculty at Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) of Taiwan. He received his Ph.D from the Faculty of Economics and Administration at University of Malaya, Malaysia. He had assumed a postdoctaral stint at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Chulalongkorn University of Thailand and served as Senior Lecturer at University of Malaya from 2011-Aug 2018. During his tenure at University of Malaya, he held several consulting appointments at Malaysia's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT), Multimedia Development Corporation and IDRC (Canada)-sponsored research entities in Asia. He has also held several visiting positions in Asia and Europe including visiting fellow at the UNU-MERIT of the Netherlands in 2015 and researcher at Seoul National University, Korea in 2017. He has published extensively on the topics of catch-up industrialization, governance issues in middle-income economies and scientific publishing/patenting competencies.

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Chan-Yuan joined Institute of Technology Management of NTHU in Sept 2018. He conducts research in the areas of scientometrics and innovation studies. The followings are courses he has taught at NTHU.

• Analysis of High-tech Industry (for Master students)

• Technology Marketing (for Master students)

• Science and Technology Policy Studies (for Ph.D. students)

• Management Studies(for Undergraduates)

• Business Models and Innovation Analytics (for Master students)

• International Business Management (for professional Master students)
   

• Selected Publications​​

1. Ng, B. K., Wong, C. Y., & Chin, T. Y. (2024). The operational modes and impacts of healthcare social enterprises: observations from the case of Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan. Asia Pacific Business Review, 1-24.
    

2. Wong, C-Y., Yeung, H.W., Huang, S., Song, J. and Lee, K. (2024), Geopolitics and the changing landscape of global value chains and competition in the global semiconductor industry: Rivalry and catch-up in chip manufacturing in East Asia, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, 209, 123749
    

3. Choong, M. S., Hsieh, Y. C., & Wong, C. Y. (2024). The Art of State-Societal Reconfiguration in a Time of Pandemic Crisis: A Health System Resilience Typology and Comparative Analysis Between Transcending Nations (the US, UK, and India) and Coping Nations (South Korea and Taiwan). East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 1-26.
    

4. Choong, M. S., Hsieh, Y. C., & Wong, C. Y. (2024). Resilient or resistant: Pandemic crisis and early observations of different preventive capabilities from cumulativeness of scientific research points of view. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 15(3), 11976-12005.
    

5. Wong, C. Y., Yeung, H. W. C., Huang, S., Song, J., & Lee, K. (2024). Geopolitics and the changing landscape of global value chains and competition in the global semiconductor industry: Rivalry and catch-up in chip manufacturing in East Asia. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 209, 123749.
    

6. Wong, C. Y., & Chan, J. J. (2024). How Public Research Institutions Propagate Industrial Niches and Configure New Industrial Structure: The Case of ITRI (Taiwan) for Semiconductor Technologies. Computer, 57(5), 39-43.
    

7. Wong, C. Y., & Lim, G. (2024). Malaysia meets (and remains in) the middle-income trap: Lost coalition amidst industrial value migration. Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 61(1), 79-100.
    

8. Russell, C. J., Chen, C. L., & Wong, C. Y. (2024). Bridging the gap between high-speed rail transport studies and cluster economics through social knowledge exchange: future research potential. Transport Reviews, 44(5), 1103-1127.
    

9. Wong, C-Y. and Russell, C. (2024), A search dilemma for market niches: Korea and Taiwan in a time of US-China high-tech decoupling, Global Policy, 15, 2, pp. 475-486
    

10. Wong, C-Y., Sheu, J. and Lee, K. (2023), Assessing the quest of SMEs in pivoting for new technological ventures: comparing the patenting indexes of seven developed cities, Scientometrics, 128, pp. 4029-4064
     

11. Wong, C-Y., Wang, I-K., Sheu, J. and Hu, M-C. (2022), What network orientation supports the development of a Resilient City? Evidence from the innovation systems of eighty-seven cities, Cities, 131, 103923
     

12. Wong, C-Y. and Lee, K. (2022), Evolution of Innovation Systems of Two Industrial Districts in East Asia: Transformation and Upgrade from a Peripheral System and the Role of the Core Firms, Samsung and TSMC, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 32,pp. 955-990
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13. Ng, B-K., Wong, C-Y. and Santos, M.G.P. (2022), Grassroots Innovation: Scenario, Policy and Governance, Journal of Rural Studies, 90, pp. 1-12

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