ACADEMIC PAPERS
• Junhan Wang, Xibao Li, Yanbo Wang. Chinese Firms Are
Increasingly Leveraging Science for Innovation, and U.S.-China
Geopolitical Tensions Have Accelerated the Process. 2025.
Revision at Science.
• Junhan Wang, Xibao Li, Yanbo Wang. Forced to Pursue Science:
Entity List Triggers Science-Seeking Innovation.
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2026, Philadelphia,
USA.
• Yumei Chen, Junhan Wang. Political Turnover and Firm R&D:
The Role of Multi-City Operations.
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2026, Philadelphia,
USA.
• Junhan Wang, Xibao Li. Patent Novelty and the Dual-Application
Strategy of the Firm. Academy of Management Proceedings,
2024, Chicago, USA.
• Junhan Wang, Xibao Li. Deregulation and Employee
Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Patent Law Industry in China.
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023, Boston, USA.
• Junhan Wang, Li Wen, Leng Ganxiao, Qiu Huanguang. Impact of
poverty alleviation relocation on livelihood capital and
livelihood strategy of poor households. China Population,
Resources and Environment, 2020, 30(10):143–153.
• Junhan Wang, Ze Zhang, Shipeng Yan. Direct Carbon Emissions of
Chinese firms: A Remote Sensing-Based Dataset. Available at SSRN
5598132.
• Luyao Wang, Junhan Wang, Guannan Qu, Xibao Li. How
Complementary Assets Matter in Employee Entrepreneurship?
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025.
WORKING PAPERS
• Chinese Science Is Increasingly Present in U.S. Innovation, and
American Firms Involved in Scientific Research Are More Likely to
Leverage This Growing Knowledge Base
First author, with Xibao Li, Yanbo Wang
Presentations: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy Research
Virtual Seminar (Jan 11, 2024); HKU Business School Brownbag
Seminar (Nov 30, 2023); EAI Seminar, NUS (Nov 24, 2023)
Conference acceptances: SMS 44th Annual Conference (Istanbul);
2024 AIB Conference (Seoul, South Korea); 2024 International
Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI), USA;
Second Global Innovation and IP Conference (Hangzhou, China)
• Deregulation and Employee Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the
Patent Law Industry in China
First author, with Xibao Li
Conference acceptances: 83rd Academy of Management Annual
Meeting (Boston, USA); 43rd Strategic Management Society Annual
Meeting (Toronto, Canada); 10th Biennial IACMR Conference (Hong
Kong); 2024 SEJ PDW (Hong Kong)
• Entering New Technology Fields and Patent Application Strategy
First author, with Xibao Li
Conference acceptances: 84th Academy of Management Annual
Meeting (Chicago, USA); 43rd Strategic Management Society Annual
Meeting (Toronto, Canada); 10th Biennial IACMR Conference (Hong
Kong); Second Global Innovation and IP Conference (Hangzhou,
China)
• A Dataset of Simultaneous Discoveries in China’s Scientific
Literature
First author, with Yujing Jiang, Jiehao Zhang, Xibao Li
• Standing on Shaky Shoulders: The Diffusion and Containment of
Patent Citations to False Science
Corresponding author, with Jiehao Zhang, Xibao Li
WORK IN PROGRESS
• The Echo of Ideas: Measuring Simultaneous Invention with Large
Language Models — with Yanbo Wang
• Gatekeepers or Guardians? Patent Office Responses to
Geopolitical Sanctions — with Zitai Hu, Wenlong He, Yanbo Wang