Collegiate Associate Professor at Virginia Tech
About
Dr. Chien-Chi Tseng is a Collegiate Associate Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management, Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. He has been a professor, researcher, and professional manager in the United States and Taiwan for over twenty-five years. He got his PhD degree from the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Tseng was devoted to fostering the quality and diversity of research. His research work focuses on the analysis and development of entrepreneurship, subject to technology innovation, entrepreneurial opportunity, and organizational learning. He has studied and found that the notions of technology innovation, entrepreneurial opportunity, and organizational learning have become increasingly important to new business development. Moreover, Dr. Tseng explored that entrepreneurship research is quite an interdisciplinary field, with ideas and implications drawn from management, finance, human resources, international business, and economics, with a wide variety of applications ranging from environmental sustainability to social science studies.
Before coming to the United States, Dr. Tseng managed the first Taiwanese Campus Innovation and Incubation Center at National Taiwan University. Beyond supporting and mentoring more than 100 developing enterprises, he was also able to assist 30 other Taiwanese universities in building their innovation and incubation centers. For his efforts, he was awarded the Best Innovation and Incubation Center Manager of the Year in 2001 and selected to serve on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Taiwanese National Research Team between 2002 and 2003. Based on the GEM research experience, he conducted several research projects.
Current Work:
Dr. Tseng’s involvement in academic activities and service is broad and numerous. He has previously served as an advisor, mentor, editorial board member, track chair, and ad hoc reviewer for conferences and journal publications. He won the International Council for Small Business 2018 Global Award in Entrepreneurship Education Excellence at the World Congress in Taiwan. The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan also selected him as a Featured Diversity Scholar in 2017. When he worked at the University of Florida, he collaborated with colleagues at the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center to win the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Excellence in Specialty Entrepreneurship Education Award in 2012 and the United States Association for Small Business Entrepreneurship (USASBE) National Model Graduate Entrepreneurship Program Award in 2013. Based on the interdisciplinary ideas and implications, he has published several refereed journal papers and presented many refereed proceedings at highly regarded national and international conferences and won the best paper award at the 2014 USASBE annual meeting.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Business, management, & organizational studies; entrepreneurship
