Dandan Xia
BIOGRAPHY
Dandan is currently a PhD student in strategic management department. She is interested in studying how different policies affect firm’s innovative performance. She is now also exploring the micro-foundation of firm innovation capabilities. For example, what role inventor mobility plays in the productivity of both the inventors and the firms.
Before joining IESE, Dandan has worked as a market researcher in a US consulting firm and she obtained her master’s degree in the UK.
ONGOING RESEARCH
Innovation Subsidy and Firm New Product Performance – Evidence from China
In this study, we examine the causal effect of innovation subsidy on firm new product performance. We exploit the enactment of a new subsidy policy across 29 provinces in China between 1999 and 2007, allowing firms to obtain subsidy providing they file a patent application. With a staggered difference-in-difference method, we find that the enactment of subsidy policy leads to a significant increase in the number of patents and the sales revenue from new products. Furthermore, the positive effect of subsidy on new product performance is not uniform. It depends on the complexity of the industry and the size of a firm’s patent portfolio.
PhD Candidate
Academic Area
Strategic Management
Dissertation Director
Prof. Bruno Cassiman and Prof. David Wehrheim
Education
• MPhil in Management (Cambridge University, Judge Business School, UK)
• BA in Business English (Nanjing Normal University, China)
Research Interests
Economics of innovation, Innovation Management, Emerging Markets, Social Networks