Franklin P. Perdue School of Business, Salisbury University
Stephen B. Adams is Entrepreneurship Scholar in Residence at the Franklin P. Perdue School of Business, Salisbury University. His research has explored entrepreneurship and innovation, business/government relations, and the role of universities in regional development. He is the author of Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington: The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur. His articles about Silicon Valley have appeared in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Research Policy, The Business History Review, Minerva, Enterprise & Society, and The California Management Review. His current research...
Institute of International and Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University, China
Yihong Jiao is a doctoral student and researcher at Beijing Normal University. Her research interests primarily include comparative higher education, education policy and management, and global education governance. During her doctoral studies, she has participated in several major national- and ministerial-level research projects in China, including projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, such as “Research on the Connotations, Characteristics, and Pathways of Building China into an Education Power” and “Research on the Development Strategies of International...
Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Copenhagen
Franziska Valder is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Copenhagen working on topics in labor, health, and education economics. Her research examines how social policies shape life-cycle outcomes, focusing on labor market outcomes, human capital formation, and fertility choices, with particular attention to the role of mental health, using administrative and survey data. She received her PhD from KU Leuven in 2021.
Franziska has received a grant by the Independent Research Fund Denmark to investigate the role of teachers for students with mental,...
Heling ZHU is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Higher Education at Beijing University of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and completed her postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University. She serves as the Director of the Master of Education Program at Beijing University of Technology and a mentor for students’ international academic and professional development.
Her research focuses on higher education, with particular attention to interdisciplinary education and the development of graduate students. Her work examines how...
