Jingshu Du est professeure associée d'innovation et de stratégie à l'EMLV Business School, à Paris, en France, où elle co-dirige le groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire « Nouveaux matériaux, systèmes intelligents et entreprises innovantes » de l'école d'ingénierie et de l'école de management. Elle est également chercheuse principale affiliée à l'Université Paris Saclay. Avant de venir en France, Jingshu Du a travaillé dans plusieurs grandes écoles sur différents continents. Elle a été professeure adjointe de gestion stratégique et d'innovation à la Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) ; associée principale à la Vlerick Business School, KU Leuven (Belgique) ; et chercheuse de longue durée, titulaire du FWO à l'Université de Californie à Berkeley (UC-Berkeley aux États-Unis).
Les recherches de Professeure Du portent sur la stratégie d'innovation, en particulier l'innovation ouverte et collaborative, la gestion des technologies, l'entrepreneuriat et la prise de décision stratégique. Les résultats de recherche de Jingshu ont été publiés dans plusieurs revues universitaires internationales de premier plan. Elle a reçu plusieurs prix prestigieux durant son parcours académique et professionnel.
Can you tell us about three significant articles in your career?
Sure. The first article that I would like to introduce is a paper from my doctoral dissertation, entitled "Managing open innovation projects with science-based and market-based partners" published on Research Policy. 3 years after it's published, it became a "highly-cited paper" on Web of Science (WoS), among the top 1% of all papers in social science. What is unique about this study is instead of taking a usual, corporate level view, I study how - at the project level - to organize collaboration with different partners (science-based and market-based partners). It is also one of the first papers that is based on hard empirical evidence to show the effect of open innovation - which has become an inevitable trend now.
The second paper that I'd like to talk about, is my sole-authored paper entitled "The up- and downside of collaboration in core and non-core technologies – Selective, contingent, and orchestrated openness in R&D collaborations" on Industrial Marketing Management. I'm very proud of this paper because, it is a paper that I independently wrote and independently went through the entire review process all by myself. It is not that easy (or perhaps even practical) to have a sole-authored publication nowadays, especially considering the fast pace and pressure of publication, and many times it has become a "paper factory" with each author doing standard practices along different parts of the production line. I took the challenge to write it all myself, and I'm happy about the result. When I wrote and revised the paper, it happened to be during the Covid pandemic. I was alone in The Netherlands, hearing the loud and sharp sirens of ambulance passing by every day and night. Glad that I survived the challenges, and more heart-warming is I have this paper.
The third paper that I'd like to introduce, which is under review and not published yet, is "Temporal Dynamics in Multipartner Coordination: Sequentiality and Simultaneity in R&D Projects". This paper is the "Best paper" finalist at the strategy division of the 80th Academy of Management, in which we study the temporal dynamics of collaboration with multiple types of partners in R&D projects. Here, building on my previous publication on Research Policy, we further dive into and explore the detailed mechanisms of collaboration. Extending from this line of research, and drawing from my own observations, I become especially interested in understanding the micro foundations of collaboration, for example, heuristics, biases, discourse, framing, and how do these "human factors" contribute to the making, breaking, the false positives and false negatives of innovation development.