Yat Ming Ooi
Details
Department: Management
Campus: City Campus Australia
yat.ming.ooi@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0001-7403-5992
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects
- Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
- Media enquiries
- Mentoring (long-term)
- Mentoring (short-term)
- Membership of an advisory committee
About
Organisations and research systems today face a fundamental challenge: creating value increasingly requires accessing and integrating knowledge and technologies from beyond traditional boundaries. Yet most struggle with this. The gap is not lack of will but lack of actionable knowledge about mechanisms.
Yat Ming Ooi is a collaborative innovation scholar in technology and innovation management. He studies how organisations and researchers access, govern, and leverage external knowledge for commercial and societal value. He focuses on understanding the mechanisms such as organisational structures, governance arrangements, and collaborative processes, that enable external knowledge utilisation.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of Research-Technology Management, Associate Editor of the Journal of Innovation Management, and co-leads ISPIM's Frontiers of Impact Special Interest Group. Using case study and qualitative methods and drawing on knowledge governance and resource-based perspectives, he builds middle-range theory about external knowledge mechanisms.
External Funding:
- £10,000 in WUN Research Development Fund 2023 for "Responsible and Ethical AI for Future Actions: Empowering Sustainable Development through Web Article and Online Initiatives".
- NZ$10.3 million in the prestigious Endeavour Fund 2022 for the Heavy Engineering Research Association-led (HERA), multi-disciplinary Construction 4.0 research programme
Research fields
- 350705 Innovation management
- 350307 Technology management
- 440710 Research, science and technology policy
- 350711 Organisational planning and management
UN sustainable development goals
- 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
Academic positions
- Senior Lecturer - Innovation Management
- University of Auckland
- Management and International Business
- Auckland, New Zealand
- 1 Jan 2022 – Present
Teaching interests
I teach responsible innovation and supervise higher degree by research (HDR) students in projects about design-driven innovation, platforms, innovation ecosystems, and responsible innovation.
Research interests
His research interests span three domains:
- Technology commercialisation through open innovation, technology transfer, and emerging technology adoption, including industrial upgrading in developing economies;
- Innovation ecosystems and responsible innovation; and
- Research impact and policy, examining how non-STEM researchers create impact and how challenge-based research funding operates as wicked problems requiring collaborative governance.
