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BIO
Ching T. Liao holds a Ph.D. from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and an MSc from the University Pompeu Fabra. Before joining CUNEF, Liao was an Assistant Professor at NEOMA Business School in France for four years. She is a review editor at Technovation since 2023. She was a visiting scholar at Deusto Business School (San Sebastian, Spain) and Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in Denmark. She has published in peer-reviewed journals under Orcid ID 0000-0001-8922-1683 and participated in the international academic communities as a presenter, reviewer, discussant, and chair. She teaches mainly Innovation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship. Prior to her academic career, she worked for seven years at Deloitte, specializing in auditing and M&A deal structuring in the Pacific Asia area.
Education
PhD in Management, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain (2018)
Master of Research in Management, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain (2013), MSc in International Trade, Finance, and Development, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, University Pompeu Fabra (2010) and MSc in Operational Research, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom (2007)
Research Interests
R&D strategy, catch-up process, innovation management, productivity, collaborative and open innovation, entrepreneurship in the informal economy, and critical factors in developing countries.
Career
Assistant Professor, NEOMA Business School, 2018-2022
Lecturer, International University of Catalonia UIC, 2017-2018
Lecturer, La Salle, Ramon Llull University, 2015
Assistant Manager, Deloitte & Touche, 2002-2009
Publications in Scientific Journals
Castro-López, Adrián; Entrialgo, Montserrat; Liao, Ching. T., Santos-Vijande, María Leticia: “Toward circular economy through innovation: The role of entrepreneurial orientation and human resource management”, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 21, 36, 2025.
Liao, Ching T., Bagherzadeh, Mehdi; Markovic, Stefan; Damnjanovic, Vesna: “Open innovation where it really matters: The U-shaped relationship between relative open innovation and innovation performance in developing countries”, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 71, 15540-15554, 2024.
Assefa, Dawit Z; Liao, Ching T; Misganaw, Bisrat A: “Unpacking the negative impact of initial informality on innovation: The mediating roles of investments in R&D and employee training”, Technovation, 114, Art. 102455, 2022.
Liao, Ching T: “Skill improvement by product imitation”, Small Business Economics, 58(3), 1567-1577, 2022.
Liao, Ching T: “Laggards imitate, leaders innovate: The heterogeneous productivity effect of imitation versus innovation”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 29(2), 375-394, 2020.
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