From lagging behind to going beyond: windows of opportunity and latecomers' catch-up strategies

Dr Yicun Li, graduate from Zhejiang University, China. He is now the General Manager of Hangzhou Yiyuan Science and Technology Co., Ltd. and Finance Lecture of Hanzhou City College. Part-time employed as Data Scientist of Hangzhou Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology, member of the second council of Hangzhou Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology, off-campus instructor of Hangzhou Normal University, and expert think tank member of Hangzhou Association for Science and Technology. The 8th to 12th consecutive “China's Best Financial Quantitative Strategy Engineer” jointly selected by the Securities Times and Futures Daily.

Dr Yuanyang Teng, graduate from Zhejiang University, China, Currently the Deputy General Manager of Hangzhou Yiyuan Technology Co., Ltd. She is employed part-time as member of the expert think tank of Hangzhou Science and Technology Association. She has many years of management experience in manufacturing enterprises, and has served as assistant manufacturing director of listed companies and assistant general manager of large manufacturing enterprises. At the same time, she has also worked in private equity for many years, developing quantitative investment strategies. Years of experience and theoretical learning in entity and finance, as well as Python programming experience, enable her to integrate physical manufacturing management, technology innovation and financial investment and put theory into practice.

Dr Dong Wu, is currently Associate Professor and doctoral supervisor on innovation management at School of Management, Zhejiang University, China. He also works as a research fellow at the National Institute for Innovation Management (NIIM), Zhejiang University, China. He was a visiting scholar at University of Cambridge, UK and Aalborg University, Denmark and a Post-doc at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA. He holds Ph.D. in management from Zhejiang University. His research areas are Technological Management and Innovation Strategy.

Xiaobo Wu, is Professor at the School of Management of Zhejiang University, Distinguished Professor of Qiushi of Zhejiang University. He was postdoctoral fellow at the Asian University of Technology (AIT), Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge in the UK and Fulbright Senior Visiting Scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management in the US. Over the years, he has been actively engaged in the research of competitive strategy and technology innovation management as the core, and has carried out pioneering research in innovation management, global manufacturing and innovation, inclusive innovation, business model innovation and other fields.