Dr Fu’s research interests fall into two broad categories. The first of these concerns innovation and entrepreneurship, the linkage between management, innovation and business performance, and productivity and efficiency analysis. Her second major research interest relates to trade and foreign direct investment, technology transfer and spillover, ICT and development, and regional economic development.

Dr Fu's research has been funded by the EPSRC, ESRC, British Academy. the Fell Fund, UNIDO, and UKTI. Her recent books include 'The rise of technological power in the South' and 'Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development in China'. She is a recipient of the European Commission, Gate2Growth Academic Network 2005 "European Best Paper Award".

Dr Fu is also a Senior Research Associate of the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Dr Fu has carried out research for the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Department of Trade and Industry, UK Trade & Investment, the regional institute for innovation (i10) and the People’s Bank of China. She is the author of ‘Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development in China’; the first Chinese speaker at the Cambridge-MIT Competitiveness Forum; and a prize winner of the European Commission, Gate2Growth Academic Network 2005 “European Best Paper Award”.

Please see Dr Xiaolan Fu's page at the University of Oxford.

Dr Fu spoke on China's exports and pricing at the Oxford Forum on China and the World Economy workshop in Oxford on 18 May 2009.