Distinguished Lecture Series

Organizers

Shenzhen Finance Institute

School of Management and Economics, CUHK-Shenzhen

China Construction Bank Hong Kong Training Center

Host Profile

Zhang Bohui

Presidential Chair Professor of CUHK-Shenzhen

Executive Dean of the School of Management and Economics, CUHK-Shenzhen

Associate Director of Shenzhen Institute of Data Economy

Director of the Center for FinTech and Social Finance, Shenzhen Finance Institute 

Co-director of MSc in Data Science Programme

Guest Profile

Deng Honghui

TANDO Global Fellow of Innovation, Creativity & Capital (IC2) Institute, the University of Texas at Austin aka the Silicon Hills in the U.S.

Tenured Full Professor of Lee Business School, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Adjunct Professor of the School of Management and Economics, CUHK-Shenzhen

Visiting Professor and EMBA Professor of the Guanghua School of Management and National School of Development, Peking University

Director of BT Coin Mining Ltd. (NYSE)

Director of Borqs Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq)

The Marquis Who’s Who 2017-2018 (Who’s Who in Finance and Business in America)

Dr. Deng Honghui once worked as Project Officer at the Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China (former State Education Commissioner) based in Beijing from 1993 to 1997, responsible for international cooperation and exchanges. He went to the McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Austin as Visiting Professor and state-commissioned Visiting Scholar in 1997. The following year, Dr. William W. Cooper, a famous economist, then aged 86, known as “Father of Management Science” and Founder of Operations Research, took him as his last PhD apprentice, whom he guided personally. Therefore, Dr. Deng’s research is widely distributed in finance/economics, decision science, operations research and e-commerce, with outstanding theoretical and practical contributions especially in innovation management and its commercialization. He, the director of two listed companies in the U.S., was invited by TANDO, Innovation, Creativity & Capital (IC2) Institute, Austin aka the Silicon Hills in the U.S. as one of its 150 Global Fellows in 2012.

Lecture Theme

Innovation and Commercialization Strategies—— Trend of Global Politics and Economy in Today’s World

In the context of the competition between globalized knowledge economies, this lecture will introduce the history and operations strategies of innovative (knowledge-based) enterprises driven by big data in the United States, specifically, the experience in integrated innovation, production and financing of the Innovation, Creativity & Capital (IC2) Institute in Austin, Texas, an emerging (future) high-tech city aka the Silicon Hills in the United States including the assessment, production, operations, financing and IPO of the incubated/invested innovative tech companies as well as the innovation and commercialization strategies of Media X, Stanford University, a traditional high-tech city aka the Silicon Valley in the United States. In particular, the lecture will draw parallels between China and the United States in terms of the environment for innovation, innovative investment and commercialization strategies to deepen the understanding of the Chinese government and business leaders on the challenges and development opportunities faced by the Chinese enterprises and provide them with opportunities and strategies to invest in new technologies for transformation and upgrading so as to realize the strategic transformation of Chinese enterprises from “Made in China” to “Created in China”.

In recent years, international economic and trade relations have been undergoing sophisticated changes amidst increasingly complicated political and economic landscapes at home and abroad. In the times when the global economy is challenged by many uncertainties, how will China be affected and inspired?

With the overall analysis on the history and operations strategies of innovative (knowledge-based) enterprises driven by big data in the United States in the first part, this lecture will, in the second part, briefly introduce and discuss about the changes to international economic and trade relations, the trends of the global political and economic patterns as well as the challenges, opportunities and feasible countermeasures for today’s China.