Research

Peer-reviewed journal papers

1. Hu, J., Huo, D., Wu, D., & Yang, C. (2025). The effect of corporate agglomeration networks on breakthrough innovation—Evidence from China. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Forthcoming.

2. Hu, J., Huo, D., & Wu, D. (2024). Digital economy development and venture capital networks: Empirical evidence from China. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 203: 123338.

3. Xu, Q., Wang, L., Huo, D., & Zhu, Y. (2023). Pursuing opportunities in distance: The determinants of overseas R&D by Chinese multinationals. R&D Management, 53(1): 115–135.

4. Dang, J., Motohashi, K., & Huo, D. (2022). Get pennies from many or get a dollar from one? Multiple licensing in markets for technology. Technovation, 113: 102423.

5. Huo, D. (2021). Local search or beyond? The influence of interfirm technological distance on co-innovation success. Industrial and Corporate Change, 30(4): 966–982.

6. Huo, D. (2021). Knowledge production in the co-invention process: The influence of knowledge similarity on co-invention performance. Applied Economics Letters, 28(2): 109–114. 

7. Wang, L., Zhang, C., Li, J., Huo, D., Fan, X. (2020). The influence of unilateral supplier transaction-specific investments on international buyer opportunism: Empirical findings from local suppliers in China. International Marketing Review, 37(2): 213–239. 

8. Huo, D., Motohashi, K., & Gong, H. (2019). Team diversity as dissimilarity and variety in organizational innovation. Research Policy, 48(6): 1564–​1572. 

9. Wang, L., Huo, D., & Motohashi, K. (2019). Coordination mechanisms and overseas knowledge acquisition for Chinese suppliers: The contingent impact of production mode and contractual governance. Journal of International Management, 25(2): 100653. 

10. Zhang, X., Ma, X.F., Wang, Y., Li, X., & Huo, D. (2016). What drives the internationalization of Chinese SMEs? The joint effects of international entrepreneurship characteristics, network ties, and firm ownership. International Business Review, 25(2): 522–534. 

11. Kang, B., Huo, D., & Motohashi, K. (2014). Comparison of Chinese and Korean companies in ICT global standardization: Essential patent analysis. Telecommunications Policy, 38(10): 902–913. 

Discussion/working papers

1. Huo, D., Dang, J., & Motohashi, K. (2021). Leveraging standard essential patents for capturing innovation rents: The strategic disclosure of license rules. RIETI Discussion Paper Series, 21-E-028. 

2. Huo, D., Dang, J., & Motohashi, K. (2019). Empirical analysis of license policy for declared standard-essential patents in setting technology standards. RIETI Discussion Paper Series, 19-E-023. 

3. Huo, D., & Motohashi, K. (2015). Understanding two types of technological diversity and their effects on the technological value of outcomes from bilateral inter-firm R&D alliances. RIETI Discussion Paper Series, 15-E-06. 

4. Huo, D., & Motohashi, K. (2015). When category-based indices encounter non-independent categories: Solving the taxonomy issue in resource-based empirical studies. IAM Discussion Paper Series, #030. 

5. Huo, D., & Motohashi, K. (2015). Dilemma in individual collaboration for invention: Should we be similar or diverse in knowledge? IAM Discussion Paper Series, #031. 

6. Liu, H., Huo, D., & Wu, Y., Does R&D respond to CSR for society? Evidence from Chinese listed manufacturers based on a perspective of idiosyncratic risk.

Peer-reviewed conference papers 

1. Huo, D., Dang, J. & Motohashi, K. Leveraging standard essential patents for capturing innovation rents: The strategic disclosure of license rules. The 18th ASIALICS Conference, Online, 2022.

2. Huo, D., Dang, J. & Motohashi, K. Empirical analysis of license policy for declared standard essential patents in standard setting. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1): 15198.

3. Huo, D., Dang, J., & Motohashi, K. Royalty and reciprocity terms in FRAND commitments for standard-essential patents. Special Conference of Strategic Management Society (SMS), Hangzhou, 2020.

4. Dang, J., Motohashi, K., & Huo, D. Get pennies from many or get a dollar from one? Multiple licensing in markets for technology. Special Conference of Strategic Management Society (SMS), Hangzhou, 2020.

5. Huo, D., Dang, J., & Motohashi, K. Empirical analysis of license policy for declared standard essential patents in technology standard setting. The 14th Annual Conference of European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Association, Zurich, 2019.

6. Liu, H., Huo, D., & Wu, Y., Does R&D respond to CSR for society? Evidence from Chinese listed manufacturers based on a perspective of idiosyncratic risk, International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) Conference, Wuhan, 2018.

7. Huo, D., & Motohashi, K., When relatedness flies under the measurement radar, The 36th Annual Conference of Strategic Management Society (SMS), Berlin, 2016.

8. Huo, D., 2016, Unleashing the benefits of cross-border partnership for collaborative innovation, The 36th Annual Conference of Strategic Management Society (SMS), Berlin, 2016.

9. Huo, D., Motohashi, K. & Gong, H., Towards a better measure of category-based index: The role of relatedness in categorization systems, Pre-AMCIS MISQ Author Workshop, San Diego, 2016.

10. Huo, D. Unleashing the benefits of cross-border partnership for collaborative innovation, The 3rd Frontiers of Business Research in China (FBR) International Symposium, Beijing, 2016.

11. Huo, D. Enhancing explanatory power of diversity indices. The Annual Conference of Japanese Economic Association, Japan, 2013.

12. Kang, B., Huo, D. & Motohashi, K. Asia's rise in ICT global standardization: Empirical analysis of Chinese and Korean companies in mobile communications standardization. The 10th ASIALICS Conference, Tokyo, 2013.

13. Huo, D., & Motohashi, K. How do we collaborate to innovate? A mathematical model. IAMOT, Hsinchu, 2012.

14. Huo, D., Xu, M., Wu, J., Cao, Y., & Ming Z. ERMO: An incremental deployable architecture for scalable routing. AsiaFI, Japan, 2010. 

Invited talks

1. The licensing strategies in standard essential patent disclosures, at Tongji University, 2022/11/19

2. Local search or beyond? The influence of interfirm technological distance on co-innovation success, at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 2021/12/09

3. Royalty and reciprocity terms in FRAND commitments for standard-essential patents: Evidence from IETF, at Zhejiang University, 2019/11/02

4. Free or not free? Strategic choice of patent license terms in standardization, at Tongji University, 2018/11/03

5. Does R&D spending respond to CSR for society? Evidence from Chinese manufacturers based on a perspective of idiosyncratic risk, at Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2017/11/21

6. Does R&D spending respond to CSR for society? Evidence from Chinese manufacturers based on a perspective of idiosyncratic risk, at Tianjin University, 2017/11/15

7. Does R&D spending respond to CSR for society? Evidence from Chinese manufacturers based on a perspective of idiosyncratic risk, at Donghua University, 2017/10/22

8. Teams as sources of inventions: The good, the bad, and the ugly of interindividual technological dissimilarity, at Sun Yat-Sen University, 2017/03/22

9. The impact of technological diversification on innovation quality in R&D collaboration: A shape-flipping perspective, at Nanjing University, 2016/11/04

10. The impact of technological diversification on innovation quality in R&D collaboration: A shape-flipping perspective, at Shanghai JiaoTong University, 2016/10/09

11. When relatedness flies under the measurement radar, at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2016/05/15

12. Asset and liability of dissimilar knowledge in interindividual collaboration for innovation and the moderating roles of collaboration patterns, at East China Normal University, 2015/09/25

13. When category-based indices meet non-independent categories: Solving the taxonomy issue in resource-based empirical studies, at Tsinghua University, 2014/05/23

research Grants (PI)

1. The licensing commitment decision in standard-essential patents of digital technology standards. Granted by NSFC. 2024–2028.

2. The marketization reform of technology (sub-project of "The marketization reform of land, labor, capital, technology and data" project). Granted by NSSFC. 2021–2023.

3. The licensing declarations of standard-essential patents based on technology licensing decision model. Granted by Shenzhen Natural Science Fund (from Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality. 2021–2022. 

4. The interactive decision-making mechanisms and knowledge system of ICT innovation, patent, and standard, based on multi-source big data. Granted by Finance Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality. 2020–2022.

5. International comparison of open innovation between China and Japan, based on researcher level information. Granted by NSFC. 2017–2019.

6. Standardization, collaboration, and catch-up in the context of global Internet technological community. Granted by NSFC. 2016–2018.

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