Fei Qin

Dr Qin’s research concerns how technological, social and institutional factors interplay to influence skills, careers, and innovation. One stream of her research focuses on skills and innovation, the relationship between technological innovation and workforce strategies, workplace training, and entrepreneurial learning. The other stream of her work examines labor market issues in international and global contexts, including global talent mobility, returnee entrepreneurship in the context of circular migration, and work organization and labor standards in global value chains. Her papers have appeared in journals such as  Research Policy,  Journal of Business Venturing,  Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal,  Industrial and Labor Relations Review,  Industrial and Corporate Change, and  Small Business Economics. She is a recipient of Emerald Citations of Excellence Award. 

Dr Qin holds a PhD in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, US, and a BA in economics from Peking University in Beijing, China. Prior to joining Bath, she taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and was a Phelan Fellow at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland. She has held visiting/affiliated positions at various institutions such as MIT Sloan School of Management and Peking University. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of Imperial College London.  She also currently serves at the Senate of University of Bath as an elected senator from her home faculty.

Skills and Innovation, Entrepreneurial Learning, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystems, Technology Entrepreneurship, Global Talent Mobility and Innovation, Work Organization in Global Value Chains