PhD scholarship in Employee Participation in the Generation and Commercialization of Innovation in China and Denmark

In agreement with the SINO-Danish Center for Education and Research (SDC), the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, invites for applications for a 3-year SDC-sponsored scholarship within an ongoing research collaboration on Employee Participation in the Generation and Commercialization of Innovations in China and Denmark (for information on this project, see below). The candidate is expected to become part of a new research team between management researchers from Aarhus University and colleagues from Renmin University within the area announced. The candidate will spend at minimum 6 months at the involved Chinese research environment and minimum 12 months in the involved Danish research environment.

Qualifications
Qualified candidates are expected to have earned a relevant master’s degree. Futhermore, it is expected that the candidate can work independently as well as in teams and is is able to and minded for working in an international and multicultural environment. Excellent communicative skills are also required and applicants who speak and understand Danish are preferred (as much data collection is expected to be collected in Denmark).

Applications will be assessed by an expert committee and will have to be approved by the management of the Danish SDC Center. During the assessment, weight will be given to the project’s relevance for the ongoing Chinese-Danish research cooperation.

The successful candidate will be enrolled at the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, and will be affiliated with the Danish Sino-Center and the associated Innovation Research Group.

Questions about the position and information about the announced research area can be achieved from Professor John P. Ulhøi på jpu@asb.dk at the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University.

About SDC
The Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research is a joint project on education and research between eight Danish universities, the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS) and the Chines Acadmy of Sciences (CAS). The Center will be located at GUCAS’s future Yanqihu Campus. For the time being, the Danish SDC secretariat is located at Aarhus University. The Sino-Danish Center is expected to be fully operationable by March 2013. It will accomodate 100 researchers from both countries. Moreover, the Center will offer high quality master programmes to 300 master students as well as PhD training for about 75 doctoral students. For more information,, please visit: http://www.sinodanishcenter.dk/index.php?menu_id=11