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Professor Bruce McKern is a researcher, educator and corporate advisor on corporate innovation and strategy. He completed a BE (Hons) in Chemical Engineering at the University of Sydney and worked as an engineer and manager in Canada and Australia, before turning to academia and completing a Doctorate in International Business at Harvard University. Bruce was Director of Stanford University’s Sloan Master’s Program, President of the Carnegie Bosch Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and Professor of International Business at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, where he co-founded and co-directed the Centre on China Innovation. He has also been Dean of two Australian business Schools: Macquarie Graduate School of Management and Monash Mt Eliza Business School. More recently he has been a Visiting Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a Visiting Research Fellow at INSEAD, the Technology & Management Centre for Development at Oxford University, and Oxford University's Saïd Business School. Bruce McKern & George Yip conducted a three-year research program in China between 2011 and 2014, which is the basis of their book, China's Next Strategic Advantage: from Imitation to Innovation (MIT Press 2016). He has given talks at many of the world's top universities and to international corporate executives about the strategic implications of the rise of China's innovative capability. Dr McKern is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney's Business School, a member of its Industry Advisory Board and a mentor to entrepreneurs. He is a member of Sydney Angels, which helps fund promising new start-ups. He co-edited a new book on China published in 2020: The Belt and Road Initiative: Opportunities and Challenges of a Chinese Economic Ambition (Sage Publications 2020). He is also co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of China Innovation, to be published in October 2021 by Oxford University Press.
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