Hwansung (Han) is an assistant professor in International Business and Strategy at EMLV. His current research interests include innovation, connectivity, global cities, and clusters. His teaching interests lie in international business, strategy, and innovation. Hwansung received a Ph.D. in International Business at Temple University, USA. He earned an M.B.A. in management and B.A. in law and business from Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea. He also holds an M.A. in International Business from the University of Florida. Before starting his Ph.D. program, he worked as an assistant manager for Renault-Samsung Motors, managing the international supply chain and procurement of automotive parts.
Charles de Grazia; Peter Hermann; Hwansung Ju
2024 Annual Conference of EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property), Pisa, Italie, 2024.
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title = {Foreign technological entry, intellectual property rights, and technology diffusion: Evidence from patenting filings at the USPTO},
author = {Charles de Grazia and Peter Hermann and Hwansung Ju},
url = {https://epip2024.eu/},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-09-01},
booktitle = {2024 Annual Conference of EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property)},
address = {Pisa, Italie},
abstract = {Technology diffusion and spillovers are key drivers of both innovation and economic growth. One such source of cross-border knowledge flows occurs through the introduction of inventions by foreign technological entrants into a local country or market. This paper examines the role of obtaining initial intellectual property rights on direct and indirect knowledge flows into the United States. Using a focal examiner's prior grant rate as an instrumental variable for the patent grant decision, an initial patent grant increases subsequent patent filings by 52.6 percent, indicating an increase in direct cross-border knowledge flows and sustained technological presence by foreign technological entrants. These effects are at least partially driven by an appropriation mechanism, where technological entrants increase subsequent filings for existing inventions -- or inventions already filed in other countries at the time of the initial decision. Securing a patent grant also increases the likelihood of technology spillovers to local U.S. firms by 30.5 percent, highlighting the trade-off between bargaining frictions and knowledge diffusion.},
note = {11-13/09/2024},
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Hwansung Ju; Jung Kwan Kim; Anna Pak
Patent Litigations: Duality of Learning and its Effects on Innovation and Performance Conference
Strategic Management Society 43rd Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2023.
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title = {Patent Litigations: Duality of Learning and its Effects on Innovation and Performance},
author = {Hwansung Ju and Jung Kwan Kim and Anna Pak},
url = {https://www.strategicmanagement.net/toronto/overview/overview},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-09-01},
booktitle = {Strategic Management Society 43rd Annual Conference},
address = {Toronto, Canada},
abstract = {The Resource-Based View has been central to understanding patent litigations in patent strategy research. Recent studies, however, have found mixed results in the link between patent litigations and changes in patent production and financial performance. We advance a more nuanced study based on the Organizational Learning literature, examining patent litigations as a source of organizational learning that comprehensively occupies managerial attentive capacity. We specifically investigate two types of organizational learning, direct learning by own patent litigations and indirect learning by others' litigations, and their influence on patent production and financial performance. Based on an analysis of the semiconductor industry, we find that (a) plaintiff firms have reduced patent production, (b) industry litigation intensity further diminishes the plaintiff firms' patent production, (c) plaintiff firms have enhanced financial performance, and (d) industry litigation intensity further strengthens the plaintiff firms' financial performance.},
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Hwansung Ju
The Role of Venture Capital in the Development of Networks and Financial Markets for Entrepreneurs Conference
Strategic Management Society 41st Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2021.
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title = {The Role of Venture Capital in the Development of Networks and Financial Markets for Entrepreneurs},
author = {Hwansung Ju},
url = {https://strategicmanagement.net/virtual-toronto/overview/overview},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-07-01},
booktitle = {Strategic Management Society 41st Annual Conference},
address = {Toronto, Canada},
abstract = {In this project, we seek to evaluate the role of venture capital in the development of country-level entrepreneurial ecosystems. We propose that the value-adding role of venture capital is inversely related to the overall quality of entrepreneurial ecosystems. We specifically argue that venture capital is an important complementary resource in the entrepreneurial process, providing entrepreneurs with access to critical financial assets as well as contributing to the development of local, regional, and national entrepreneurial networks. Accordingly, we expect venture capital flows to be higher in counties with underdeveloped entrepreneurial ecosystems, providing venture capitalists an opportunity to better leverage their financial and human resources, thus enhancing return prospects on the invested capital while contributing to the development and functioning of entrepreneurial ecosystems.},
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Hwansung Ju
Needles in Haystacks: How Metros Can Prioritize Engagement in International Markets Conference
iBEGIN Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019.
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title = {Needles in Haystacks: How Metros Can Prioritize Engagement in International Markets},
author = {Hwansung Ju},
url = {https://www.cbs.dk/en/knowledge-society/strategic-areas/business-in-society-platforms/events/ibegin-2019-0},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-04-01},
booktitle = {iBEGIN Conference},
address = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
abstract = {Cities have long played a vital role as industrial hotspots at the center of any nations' economic development. Each city has different resources and capabilities to develop specific industries, and economic partnerships between cities are essential to developing these resources into economic value. However, few city planners have clear directions in choosing partner cities, and their decisions are rarely based on appropriate data analysis. Based on Brookings Institution's Global City Initiative 2.0 project, we introduce a step-by-step guideline to city planners in finding global partner cities. Additionally, we share our own anecdote regarding how Philadelphia chose potential partner cities to attract more FDI in its biopharmaceutical. This case-based paper provides practical implications to city planners in prioritizing the market by global partnerships.},
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Hwansung Ju
Urban-Suburban Inventor Connectivity and Quality of Innovation Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 61st annual meeting of the Academy of International Business, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019, ISBN: 2078-4430.
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title = {Urban-Suburban Inventor Connectivity and Quality of Innovation},
author = {Hwansung Ju},
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year = {2019},
date = {2019-02-01},
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abstract = {Building on previous literature explaining the superior performance of urban geographies, we propose new perspectives on intra-metropolitan innovation networks. We stipulate that demographic differences between inventors in city centers and the suburban areas serve as sources of diversity and collaboration between the inventors, contributing to the quality of innovation. We find empirical evidence for this claim by matching USPTO patent data with information on CBSA geographic distinction. Furthermore, our findings suggest that firms located within a city center support the establishment of this urban-suburban connectivity while foreign firms suffer the liability of foreignness in this regard. Notably, innovation practices of universities and leading innovators in the region indicate lower intra-metropolitan connectivity.},
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Hwansung Ju
Impact of national culture on software adoption rate: A study on Windows 10 update rate Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2017, ISBN: 2078-0435.
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title = {Impact of national culture on software adoption rate: A study on Windows 10 update rate},
author = {Hwansung Ju},
url = {https://documents.aib.msu.edu/events/2017/AIB2017_Proceedings.pdf},
issn = {2078-0435},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-02-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business},
address = {Dubai, United Arab Emirates},
abstract = {Culture is a deep-rooted source that makes differences among the countries and asymmetry in culture affects how consumers behave as well. This paper will address this relationship by applying Hofstede's six cultural dimensions to the consumer's response to a new product within the software industry. To empirically test the relationship in a real-life-based setting, I analyzed how consumers in different cultural backgrounds reacted to Windows 10 updates. The results suggest that users in low Masculinity, low Power Distance, high Indulgence culture were more open to the new software products. Additionally, I could observe an inverted-U-shaped relationship between Long Term Orientation culture of users and their software adoption rate. Overall, users in a culture which 1) conforms to the software policy to update the software, 2) does not feel comfortable with situation that might create inequality, and 3) enjoys benefits of new products regardless of social norm tend to have higher innovation penetration rate. This paper also implies that innovation in software products was not considered ?uncertainty? anymore, nor something that requires an investment of time and effort.},
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Hwansung Ju
What is "Global City"? Miscellaneous
FNEGE Médias, 2022.
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title = {What is "Global City"?},
author = {Hwansung Ju},
url = {https://fnege-medias.fr/fnege-video/quest-ce-quune-ville-mondiale/},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-04-01},
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note = {Recently, the focus of the international business has been shifted from a country-level to a sub-national level, with the better availability of more fine-grained data and new interdisciplinary research. Especially, ?global city? has become a key topic in international business due to their superior economic performance. Their superior can be explained by 1) well-developed infrastructure attracts many different people and firms to be concentrated in a dense area, and 2) global connectivity of the global cities provides access to more opportunities and knowledge outside the metropolitan area. These two factors are very closely related. World-class firms and talented people in the metropolitan area provide more chances to be connected, both within a city and across different cities across co},
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