On the afternoon of May 12, 2025 (Monday), CUFE Business School successfully held the CUFE 2025 Special Academic Lecture and the Tenth Session of CUFE Business School Academic Excellence Lecture Theatre 2025 in Conference Room 615 of the Main Teaching Building on the South College Road Campus. The lecture invited Associate Prof. PARK, HaeminDennis from the University of Texas at Dallas as the guest speaker. Faculty members, doctoral students, master's students from CUFE Business School, and scholars from other universities attended the event.
The meeting was chaired by Prof. Lin Song, Dean of CUFE Business School. Before the lecture, Prof. Lin Song introduced Associate Prof. PARK, HaeminDennis's academic background in detail. PARK, HaeminDennis is an Associate Professor at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Product and Innovation Management, Organization Science, Research Policy, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Strategic Management Journal. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Business Venturing and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
Associate Prof. PARK, HaeminDennis delivered a lecture titled "Corporate Venture Capitalists and the Sale of Patents by High-Tech Startups". Although startups are important sources of innovation, they often need to focus on commercializing a few promising technologies due to limited resources. The study explores the impact of corporate venture capitalists (CVCs) on the likelihood of startups selling patents and finds that CVC-backed startups are less likely to sell patents compared to those supported by independent venture capitalists (IVCs). The research further validates the influencing mechanisms by considering complementary assets provided by corporate investors, competitive dynamics with startups, and specific characteristics of patents, investors, and startups. The findings offer new insights into understanding the critical role of corporate investors' resources and preferences in startups' intellectual property management and participation in technology markets.
After the lecture, the attending faculty and students engaged in a lively discussion around the themes shared by Associate Prof. PARK, HaeminDennis, focusing on topics such as the definition and measurement of core variables and the causal relationships in research conclusions, further promoting the exchange and collision of academic ideas.
The "Academic Excellence Lecture Theatre" is an academic exchange platform established by CUFE Business School to fulfill its mission of "contributing new knowledge to management". It aims to focus on cutting-edge theoretical issues in the discipline of business administration and the management practices of Chinese enterprises, as well as organizational development dilemmas, gathering cutting-edge ideas and innovative perspectives from home and abroad to explore Chinese solutions for China's social and economic development.
