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”.

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 growth and development. She has also published scholarly articles on regional economic development, regional innovation systems, innovatibility of SMEs, exports and productivity growth, and the relationship between management and productive efficiency.

Please see Dr Xiaolan Fu's page at Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.