Kwanghui Lim PhD (MIT), BEng (NUS) Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Business School Kwanghui Lim is an experienced teacher, researcher and consultant in the areas of technology management and the commercialisation of innovation. His research is on the strategies used by firms to manage knowledge, both in tangible form (as embodied in their intellectual property) and intangible form (as possessed by inventors and scientists). Current projects include a study on the use of "knowledge brokering" by biotechnology startups (with David Hsu, Wharton), the impact of corporate acquisitions on the productivity of inventors (with Rahul Kapoor, INSEAD), and the role of intellectual property and complementary assets in the competition among wireless telecommunications firms (with Zi-lin He and Poh-kam Wong). Kwanghui earlier founded the NUS Patent Database and was its Principal Investigator (2000-2006).
Articles
The Impact of Acquisitions on the Innovation Performance of Inventors at Semiconductor Companies (with Rahul Kapoor), Academy of Management Journal (2007)
We show how knowledge-based and incentive-based perspectives complement each other to explain the effects of...
Entry and Competitive Dynamics in the Mobile Telecommunications Market (with Zi-lin He and Poh-kam Wong), Research Policy (2006)
We propose an extension of the Gans–Stern [Gans, J.S., Stern, S., 2003. The product market...
The Relationship between Research and Innovation in the Semiconductor and Pharmaceutical Industries (1981-97), Research Policy (2004)
This paper evaluates the impact of basic and applied research on innovation in two industries....
Ph.D. Dissertation
Thesis, Basic research, applied research and innovation in the semiconductor and pharmaceutical industries (2000)
This thesis comprises three essays on the relationships among basic research, applied research, and innovation....
Working Papers
The Effects of Social Networks on Venture Capitalist Advice and Monitoring (with Brian Cu), Melbourne Business School and IPRIA Working Paper (2008)
We show how contractual factors and social ties shape the relationship between entrepreneurs and venture...
Knowledge Search and its Effects on the International Diffusion of Knowledge (with Wenyue Zhuang and Poh-kam Wong) (2007)
While research has shown that knowledge spillovers are geographically localized, the globalization of R&D is...
Open Innovation and Patterns of R&D Competition (with Henry Chesbrough and Yi Ruan), MBS and IPRIA Working Paper (2007)
We explore the technological evolution of three microprocessor firms between 1976 and 2004. We trace...
Entry and Competitive Dynamics in the Mobile Telecommunications Market (with Zi-lin Wong and poh-kam Wong), IPRIA Working Paper (2006)
We propose an extension of the Gans-Stern (2003) framework that includes entry by existing firms....