“Functional Knowledge v.s. Strategic Knowledge: What Type of Knowledge Matters Most For The Long-Term Performance Of Startups,” Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, 20. October 2021.

What and How Entrepreneurial Startups Learn from Incumbent Firms: Network Ties in the Chinese Synthetic Dye Industry.
March 31, 2017: University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
March 15, 2017, Beedie School, Simon Frazer University.
June 2, 2015 Judge Business School,  University of Cambridge.
July 17, 2012:  EBS.  Rheingau, Germany.
June 19, 2012:  IESE Business School. University of Navarra. Barcelona, Spain.

“The Transformation of Huawei - An Overview”. Ruihua Institute for Innovation Management, Huawei Forum. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, June 19-20, 2016.

“China’s New-To-The-World Innovation Performance And Its Antecedents: Evidence From International Patent Statistics.“
Presentations at:
University of Bolzano, Italy, June 13, 2016
University of Manchester, Uk, September 9, 2016
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 22, 2016
Renmin University, China, October 10, 2016

“The Challenge of Maintaining Customer Centricity in a Rapidly Growing Firm: Lessons from Huawei”. Ruihua Institute for Innovation Management, Huawei Forum. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, April 14-15, 2016.

“Strategies for Doing and Publishing Good Research.” Asia Pacific Journal of Management Conference on “A Decade of Dragon Multinationals. Macquarie University.  Syndey, Australia, Dec 11, 2015.

“Building Innovation Capacity in China — An Agenda for Averting the Middle Income Trap”. 11th International Conference on Global Manufacturing and China. Organized by Zhejiang University and University of Cambridge.  Hangzhou, China, Sep 5-6, 2015.

“What constitutes a compelling case study?” Keynote Address at 8th Annual Forum on Case-Based and Qualitative Research in Business Administration in China, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Nov 8-9, 2014

“Longitudinal Case Studies: How to design, analyze, and publish them.” Tutorial at 8th Annual Forum on Case-Based and Qualitative Research in Business Administration in China, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Nov 8-9, 2014

“How Does Headquarters Create Value in a Diversified Multi-Business Firm: The Case of Wesfarmers.”
Presentations at:
University of Bocconi, Department of Management and Technology, Italy, October 2, 2014
Evo Conference Kassel University, Germany, September 29, 2014
Nanjing University Business School, China, November 11, 2014

Can China Continue the Development Model Exemplified Chinese Synthetic Industry? What Innovation Policies Does China Need to Catch-up with the Most Advanced Countries in the World? UNU-Merit, Maastricht, Netherlands, September 11, 2014

“Institutional Environment & Evolutionary Dynamics.”  Emerging Scholars Workshop: Evolutionary Perspectives on Strategic Management, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. June 22 – 27, 2014

“Cluster Policy Revisited: How can small economies create globally competitive high-tech firms?” Cass Business School, City University London, UK. June 18, 2013

“Institutional Environment & Evolutionary Dynamics.”  Emerging Scholars Workshop: Evolutionary Perspectives on Strategic Management, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. June 24 – 28, 2013

“The Coevolution of Industries and Important Features of Their Environments.” Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, June 14, 2013.

“Evolutionary Perspectives on Firm Capabilities and Organizational Change Management.” School of Business. Renmin University, Beijing, China.  June 3 and 7, 2013.

“Evolutionary Theory in Economics and Management.” Co-sponored Colloquium Minnesota Program in the Philosophy of Science and the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Program. University of Minnesota.  December 7, 2012.

“The Co-development of Industrial Sectors and Academic Disciplines. ”Distinguished Scholar Series Scholar Series   McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship. University of Arizona.  October 22, 2012.

“Institutional Environment & Evolutionary Dynamics.”  Emerging Scholars Workshop: Evolutionary Perspectives on Strategic Management, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. June 25 – 29, 2012

“Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of Nelson & Winter (1982).” The 9th Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference. May 15-17, 2012

“Economic & Organizational Change.” Symposium on Mode and Tempo of Technological Change. Center for Society and Genetics, UCLA.  December 2, 2011.

“Scaffolding in Economics, Management, & the Design of Technologies”. Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. Altenberg, Austria, July 8-11, 2010.

“Designing Longitudinal Industry Studies.” Doctoral Workshop. IFRIS - University of Paris East. Paris, France, September 24, 2009.

“Varieties of Knowledge in the Economy.” 12th International Joseph Schumpeter Conference, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. July 2-5, 2008.

“Coevolution.” Workshop on Evolutionary Theory and Policy, Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Refsnes Gods, Norway, May 20-22, 2008.

“Towards a Framework for Comparative Industry Studies (CIS).” EAWAG, Zurich, Switzerland, June 21, 2007

“Automatic Coding of Printed Materials.” Five Conference, Tuck, Dartmouth College, May 11-12, 2007.

Three Lectures at the University of Lille 1.
Lecture 1: The Nature of a Coevolutionary Explanation
Lecture 2: The Relationship Between Technological and Industrial Change
Lecture 3: Qualitative versus Quantitative Research Methods
Lille, France,  Oct. 2006.

“Evolutionary Economics & History: Empirical Research as Detective Work.” Key Note Presentation at the International Buchenbach Workshop on Evolutionary Economics, Buchenbach, Germany, Oct 4-8, 2005.

“Patents and Economic Growth.” Briefing for EU Policy makers hosted by European Enterprise Institute, Brussels, Oct. 7, 2004

“The Method of Comparative Industry Evolution Studies.” 2nd Annual Conference on Emerging Frontiers in International Business, Michigan State University. September 17, 2004

“Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution Firms, Industries and National Institutions.”
Presentations at:
Said Business School, Oxford University, December 13, 2004.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland,
November 27, 2004.
Mitsubishi Conference, Japan, August 31, 2004.
Academy of Management Meetings, New Orleans, August 8, 2004.
Helsinki University of Technology, June 22, 2004.
University of California, Riverside May 21, 2004.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 30, 2004.
Rotterdam School of Business, Erasmus University, April 1, 2004.
Panel on the Managerial Implications of Coevolution at Organization Science Winter Conference, Steamboat, February 6, 2004

“Evolutionary Thought in Economics and Organization Theory.” Workshop on Evolutionary Processes in Biology, Language, and Culture at the University of Chicago. November 19, 2003.

“The Coevolution of Industries and Academic Disciplines.”
Presentations at:
School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, February 10, 2006
Department of Business Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden, December 6, 2005
Management and Organization Studies Seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, October 27, 2005
School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, March 11, 2005
Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
March 8, 2005
The Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney, February 15, 2005
Management Department, Wharton School, February 8, 2005
Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, January 15, 2005
Management Department, Rutgers University, Newark,
December 14, 2004.
Schulich School of Business, York University, December 9, 2004.
Management Department, University of Central Florida,
December 3, 2004.
Hotel School, Cornell University, December 1, 2004.
Wharton Conference on Strategy and the Business Environment,
March 26, 2004.
Management Seminar Series, Fuqua School, Duke University, November 10, 2003.
Entrepreneurial Management Seminar Series, Harvard Business School, October 7, 2003.

“The Use of Simulations in Developing Robust Knowledge about Causal Processes: Methodological Considerations and an Application to Industrial Evolution.”
Presentations at:
Organization Science Winter Conference, Steamboat, February 5, 2003.
Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, January 13, 2003.

“The Coevolution of Industries and National Institutions: Theory and Evidence.”
Presentations at:
BYU- University of Utah Winter Strategy Conference, March 8, 2003.
Organization Science Winter Conference, Steamboat, February 7, 2003
Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, February 12, 2002.

“Interdisciplinary Research in the U.S: Opportunities and Challenges.” Social Science Research Center, Berlin (WZB). December 18, 2001.

“New Directions on Research on Dominant Designs.” Conference on Reappraising Production Theory: Concepts, Cases, Models. Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, November 29-December 1, 2001.

“Toward an Institutional Theory of Strategy: Industrial, Technological, and Institutional Coevolution in the Chemical Industry.” Conference on The New Institutionalism in Strategic Management, Columbia University, April 21-22, 2001

“Evolutionary Economics: State of the Science.” Conference on Evolutionary Economics: New Perspectives on Telecommunications and Pharmaceuticals in Europe and the United States. Johns Hopkins University, March 30-31, 2001.

“The Emergence of the Synthetic Dye Industry, 1857-1914: Creating a marketplace for dyes and its various inputs from raw materials and scientists.” Conference on Market Relations and Competitive Processes at the CRIC Center, University of Manchester, UK, May 2000.

“Comparing Evolutionary Dynamics Across Different National Settings: The Case of the Synthetic Dye Industry, 1857-1914.”
Presentations at:WZB, Berlin, Germany, Research Unit on Competitiveness and Industrial Change October 1999
Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Economic History Seminar October 1999

“From the Technology Cycle to the Entrepreneurship Dynamic: Placing Dominant Designs in Social Context.”
University of California at Irvine, October 1998

“The Coevolution of Patent Law and the Dye Industry in Great Britain and Germany, 1850-1914.” American Bar Foundation, Chicago, May 1998

“Coevolution and Competitive Advantage in the Synthetic Dye Industry, 1850-1914.”
Presentations at:
University of Chicago, November 1998
NIAS, Netherlands, October 1998
University of Pennsylvania, April 1998
Northwestern University, February 1997
University of California at Riverside, February 1997
University of Southern California, February 1997
Harvard Business School, February 1997
MIT, January 1997
INSEAD, January 1997
London Business School, January 1997
Georgetown University, January 1997
Southern Methodist University, November 1996

“Competitive Advantage of Firms viewed as the Coevolution of Technology, Firms, and Broader National Institutional Structures.”
Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation Doctoral Colloquium on R&D, Technological Change, Organizational Structure, and Market Evolution.
April, 1996. MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“The Coevolution of Technology, Firms, and Broader National Institutional Structures.”
Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation Doctoral Colloquium on R&D, Technological Change, Organizational Structure, and Market Evolution. April, 1995. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

“Impacts of Executive Team Characteristics and Organization Context on Organization Responsiveness to Environmental Shock.”
Conference on Technological Oversights and Foresights. March, 1994. Stern School of Business. New York University, New York. (With Michael Tushman).

“The Coevolution of Technology, Organizations, and Broader National Institutions.”
Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation Doctoral Colloquium on R&D, Technological Change, Organizational Structure, and Market Evolution. January, 1994. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.