Media & Outreach
Op-ed articles and media coverage
CLASS Academics Named in Stanford's List of Top 2 % Most Cited Scientists Worldwide, South China Morning Post, 25/06/2024
The Risks and Rewards as China Makes a Big Push for Science and Tech, South China Morning Post, 14/03/2024.
Entrepreneurship Can Keep Jobs Safe from AI Automation. South China Morning Post, 08/10/2023.
Can ChatGPT do Data Science? (AI Business, 04-07-2023). [Link]
How Academia can Embrace ChatGPT and Reignite a Love for Learning, South China Morning Post, 22/03/2023.
How ChatGPT Changes How We Do Search Online. South China Morning Post, 02/03/2023.
Reflection on BCorp Month. Radio & Television HK (RTHK.hk), 17/03/2023.
YouTube interview with Ventures "How NFTs and DAOs Changed Entrepreneurship Forever"
The Cultural Entrepreneurship of Citayam Fashion Week. The Jakarta Post, 06/08/2022. Medium version.
What is The Crypto Industry's Public Responsibility? Forkast, 26/07/2022. Medium version.
Axie Infinity: Re-engineering its Destiny in the GameFi Landscape. CoinTelegraph, 17/07/2022. Medium version.
How Non-Fungible Tokens Liberate Ordinary Artists. The Jakarta Post, 19/04/2022.
How NFT Change Arts. South China Morning Post, 14/04/2022. Medium version.
Chasing the BCorp Dream. Kontan, 13/11/2021.
Why Social Entrepreneurship is Gaining Traction among Youths. The Jakarta Post, 14/09/2021. Reprint by The Star, 19/09/2021, Universitas Gadjah Mada, 22/09/2021.
Battling Predatory Publishing. The Star (Malaysia's largest newspaper), 02/05/2021.
How Businesses Can Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Jakarta Post. 12/05/2020.
Social Innovation Development in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. HK01, 13/11/2020.
Social Innovation Landscape in Hong Kong: More Theory or More Practice? Pioneers Post, 15/10/2019.
Why Social Innovation Will Solve Hong Kong's Grand Challenges. Pioneers Post, 04/12/2018.
New Fuel for the Social Innovation Research Locomotive in Hong Kong. Pioneers Post, 27/11/2018.
How Well Do We Know Our Entrepreneurs? The Pentagon of Entrepreneurship. ABS-CBN News, 17/01/2018.
Nurturing Future Social Entrepreneurs, CityU Magazine, 25/01/2017.
Meta-Strategies in Social Entrepreneurship, The University of Indonesia's Small Business Association, 21/07/2016.
Hong Kong Needs Property Developers that Put Social Mission Ahead of Profit. South China Morning Post, 28/10/2016.
Make a Difference while You are Young. The Young Post by SCMP, 18/03/2016.
Transferring Knowledge Without Borders, CityU, 2016.
How Gov't, Uber and the Traditional Taxi Sector Can Work Together to Benefit HK. South China Morning Post, 28/08/2015.
Inventions for the visually impaired, The Hong Kong Commercial Daily, 05/06/2014.
Invited Presentations
Invited speaker, MBA Class on "Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Enabled Entrepreneurship". Invited by Prof Pablo Munoz (Durham University Business School, UK), 3 May 2023.
One of two keynote speakers, CPAL TPL Lab Mini-Conference “A Multi-Disciplinary Dialogue about the Metaverse: Technological Possibilities, Legal Implications, and Policy Preparation”. Title of talk: Non-Fungible Token (NFT) as a Gateway to the Metaverse Economy: An Introduction.” 5 July 2022. Invited by City University of Hong Kong School of Law.
Keynote speaker, The Carbon Neutral Society Conference. Title of talk: Blockchain as Social Innovation: Using Smart Contract for P2P Smart Energy Trading. 10 June 2022. Invited by Kyushu University, Japan, and Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU).
Invited speaker, NFT.NYC, the world's largest industry event on NFT, on 20 June 2022 in New York. Title of talk: "How NFT Change Arts and International Artists".
Invited speaker, Catalyzing Change Week, Catalyst 2030. Title: Understanding Social Entrepreneurship in Asia: Appraisal and Critique. 11 May 2022.
Invited speaker, MBA Class on Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), "NFT: An Alternative Asset Class". Invited by Prof Pablo Munoz (Durham University Business School, UK)
Inaugural speaker, The Education University of Hong Kong. Title of talk: Social Entrepreneurship: Its Nature, Challenges, Misunderstandings, and Ways Forward. Funded by CRAC Fund and Education University of Hong Kong, 09-12-2021.
Invited speaker, a seminar by Japanese Academic Association of Organizational Science (AAOS) and Waseda University. Title of talk: "The Promise of Emancipatory Entrepreneuring Research" (6 Aug 2021). Invited by Osaka City University.
Invited speaker, Stanford PACS China Social Innovation Summit. Title of Talk: A Landscape Study of Social Innovation Education in Hong Kong. (19 Nov 2020). Invited by Chinese Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Invited speaker, Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Online Forum by Renmin University of China. 19 Sept 2020.
Invited speaker, a seminar by Education University of Hong Kong School of Asian and Policy Studies Research Seminar. Title: "Unpacking the Antecedents of the Emergence of Social Enterprises", 20 Feb 2017. (invited by Education University of Hong Kong).
Panelist, 2016 Management Theory and Practice Conference. Title of talk: "Critical Issues in Social Entrepreneurship Research." (1-4 April 2016) in Kyoto, Japan. Invited by Kyoto University and National Taiwan University.
Invited speaker, LaMP Conference hosted by City University of Hong Kong College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Title of talk: "Studying Large Scale Textual Data: Topic Modeling and Bibliometrics." (12 Dec 2016, Hong Kong)
Events Hosted
Co-Chair, AI and the Future of Human Relations Conference, City University of Hong Kong (12-14 June 2024).
International Symposium on Computational Social Sciences for the Big Text Era (24 May 2021). The first symposium on the topic in the region, featuring young rising stars from the field of computer science, political science, communication studies to social entrepreneurship. Supported by Qualtrics, Price Waterhouse Coppers (HK), and Office of CIO of Hong Kong SAR government.
Social Entrepreneurship in Context webinar (22 Jan 2021) in conjunction with a special issue in the Journal of Asian Public Policy (SSCI, Q1 journal) (co-editor: Dr Yanto Chandra and Dr Janelle Kerlin). The first special issue on the topic in the region. Supported by Journal of Asian Public Policy and Hong Kong Council of Social Services Social Enterprise Business Centre.
Public speaking engagements
Curator and host, 5th Academic Forum in the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Summit 2023, tentative title "AI for Good", 2-4 Nov 2023, Hong Kong.
Curator and host, 5th Academic Forum in the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Summit 2022, entitled "NFT for Social Good" (forthcoming in Nov 2022).
Convener and host, 4th Academic Forum in the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Summit 2021, entitled "Taking the Pulse of 'Certified B Corporation': Lessons Learned in the Past Decade (2001-2021)" (5 Nov 2021), Hong Kong).
Convener and host, 3rd Academic Forum in the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Summit 2020, entitled "Using Behavioural Science to Develop Better Society" (20 Nov 2020, Hong Kong).
Invited speaker and co-author, British Council BRICKS 2019 Conference, "Surveying the Landscape of Social Innovation and Higher Education in Hong Kong". (12 Sept 2019, Hong Kong)
Convener and host, 2nd Academic Forum in the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Summit 2019, entitled “Platform Cooperativism in the Age of Industrial Revolution 4.0”. (22 Nov 2019, Hong Kong).
Convener and host, 1st Academic Forum in the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Summit 2018, entitled, "What's Next in Social Entrepreneurship Research?" (24 Nov 2018, Hong Kong). A summary of the forum is available here.
Keynote speaker, The Frontiers of Social Innovation Research. Co-organized by Cambridge University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and British Council, 4 April 2019, Hong Kong.
Panelist, SCMP 5th Redefining Hong Kong Debate Series "What Must Hong Kong Do to Rein in Surging Home Prices?". Co-organized by SCMP and Ernst and Young (13 Sept 2017, Hong Kong).
Distinguished speaker, Real Dialogue in Social Enterprise (invited by HK General Chamber of Social Enterprises), 13 Oct 2017 in Hong Kong. http://www.sechamber.hk/en-news-details-117.html
Panelist, Hong Kong Shared Good Values Summit 2017 "Doing Good Doing Well in Cultivating Sustainable Company Culture and Healthcare". Co-organized by Wofoo Social Enterprise, Our Hong Kong Foundation, and SIEFUND (15 Nov 2017, HK).
Keynote speaker, pitching Hong Kong’s proposal to host the Social Enterprise World Forum 2016, Hong Kong, 23 January, 2015. Title of talk: “State of the Art of Social Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong”. News on the 2016 SEWF.
Keynote speaker, Social Enterprise in Vietnam: The Role of Higher Education and Research Institutions Conference, 16-17 Mar 2015, hosted by National Economics University, Vietnam (invited by the British Council). Title of talk: "Best Practices in Social Entrepreneurship Teaching and Learning: The Hong Kong Experience."