Dr Felicia Fai
+44 (0) 1225 386473
BA, MA, PhD
Job Title:
Lecturer in Business Economics
Affiliated Research Centre:
Centre for Business, Organizations and Society (CBOS)
Subject Group:
Strategic and International Management
Key Research Interests:
Innovation Technology R&D, Asia Intellectual Property
Research Interests
My research considers innovation and technology as drivers of economic growth (at firm, industry and national levels) and the issues surrounding them in a globalizing world.
I combine resource-based and evolutionary economics perspectives and have used patent indicators to trace the evolution of corporate and industrial technological competence and diversification. I am interested in why and how do firms, industries and nations generate/ access new technologies from across the world, how they exploit, share and transfer it, and what hinders/facilitates these processes? E.g. what role do intellectual property systems have in these issues? How do these relate to national comparative advantages and policies?
I am currently pursuing two areas: (a) investigating the technological competences emerging in China and their implications for China, UK and others and (b) investigating the challenge of emergent players to the established duopoly in global aerospace. I welcome PhD applications in these areas.
Publications
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Books | Refereed journals papersBooks
Fai, F.M., & Morgan, E.J. (eds.). 2006. Managerial Issues in International Business. International Business Series. 
215. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
Fai, F.M. 2003. Corporate Technological Competence and the Evolution of Technological Diversification. 194. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Refereed journal papers
McGuire S, Fai F & Ozaki T (2010). Path Dependence as a Political Construct, the Disruptive Influence of Technology and Japanese Aerospace. International Journal of Technology Management, Special Issue on “Aeronautics and Medium-Technologies: Clusters, Proximities and International Connections”, 50(3-4):367-79. DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.2010.032682
Mendonça S & Fai FM (2007). Decomposing technological change at the twilight of the twentieth century: evidence and lessons from the world’s largest innovating firms. Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice. 9(3-4):311-323. DOI:10.5172/impp.2007.9.3-4.311
Fai FM (2007). A structural decomposition analysis of technological opportunity and leadership. Industrial and Corporate Change. 16(6):1069-1103. DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtm032
Morgan EJ & Fai FM (2007). Innovation, competition and change in international business: emergent research trajectories. Management International Review. Special issue on Innovation, Competition and Change. 47(5):631-638. DOI: 10.1007/s11575-007-0037-x
Fai FM & Morgan EJ (2007). Innovation, competition and regulatory change: assessing interrelationships at the industry level. Management International Review. Special issue on Innovation, Competition and Change. 47(5):767-785. DOI:10.1007/s11575-007-0044-y
Duanmu JL & Fai FM (2007). A processual analysis of knowledge transfer: from foreign MNEs to Chinese suppliers. International Business Review. 16(4):449-473. DOI:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2007.04.004
Brown S & Fai FM (2006). Strategic resonance between technological and organizational capabilities in the innovation process within firms. Technovation. 26(1):60-75. DOI:10.1016/j.technovation.2004.08.008
Fai FM (2005). Using intellectual property data to analyse China’s growing technological capabilities. World Patent Information. 27(1):49-61. DOI:10.1016/j.wpi.2004.08.004
Fai FM & von Tunzelmann GN (2001). Industry-specific competencies and converging technological systems: evidence from patents. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. 12 (2):141-170. DOI: 10.1016/S0954-349X(00)00035-7
Fai FM & von Tunzelmann GN (2001). Scale and scope in technology: large firms 1930/1990. Economics of Innovation and New Technology. 10(4):255-288. DOI:10.1080/10438590100000011
