Professor and Associate Dean at School of Management, Zhejiang University
Director of Zhejiang Provincial Data Intellectual Property Research Center
Executive Deputy Director of National Institute for Innovation Management
Co-Director of Institute for Intellectual Property Management
Dr. Can Huang is Professor, Associate Dean, Director of Zhejiang Provincial Data Intellectual Property Research Center, Executive Deputy Director of National Institute for Innovation Management, and Co-Director of Institute for Intellectual Property Management at School of Management, Zhejiang University. He is a member of the Global Future Councils of the World Economic Forum, the technical committee of the ISO 56000 Innovation Management Standard and the National Knowledge Management Standardization. He is also a member of advisory board of Research Center for Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University and the Asia Pacific Innovation Conference. He is a past Associate Editor of Technovation (2020-2024), a past Deputy Editor and Senior Editor of Management and Organization Review (2017-2023), a past editorial board member of Journal of International Business Studies (2020-2022) and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of International Business Policy, Industry and Innovation, International Journal of Innovation Studies.
Earlier from 2007 to 2013 he was a Research Fellow and subsequently a Senior Research Fellow at United Nations University-MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherlands. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Management from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, an M.S. in Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from Renmin University of China, Beijing, China. He was a visiting research fellow at the Technology Policy and Assessment Center, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, the United States in 2006. After studying and working in Europe and the United States for 11 years, he returned to China to join Zhejiang University in September 2013.
Prof. Can Huang’s research interests include innovation management, intellectual property right and science and technology policy. In recent years, Prof. Can Huang, as principal investigator or co-principal investigator, has undertaken research projects funded by the European Commission, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Fund of China, the National Intellectual Property Administration of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Zhejiang Provincial Government, the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development, the Ningbo Municipal Government, the Shanghai Pudong Intellectual Property Bureau, the Association of Patent Protection of China, Royal Philips, and Opple Lighting.
Prof. Can Huang has been active in international collaboration while disseminating his research results. In recent years, he (co-)organized several international academic conferences and has been invited to give guest lectures or workshop presentations in governmental agencies such as the World Intellectual Property Organization, the European Patent Office, the European Commission and universities in the United States, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Singapore, Mexico, Hong Kong, mainland China and so on.
