Prof Jin Hooi Chan is Professor of Sustainable Strategy, Innovation at the University of Greenwich. Professor Chan has an extensive research interest in sustainability and has published broadly in many fields related to sustainability and circular economy, such as entrepreneurship; innovation; industry strategy and policy; energy (renewable) policy; creative, cultural, and tourism sectors management; industrial organisation; and urban cluster and gentrification. He has an extensive collaboration network worldwide and has experience in doing fieldwork research in Europe, Africa, China, and Southeast Asia. Professor Chan is an award-winning researcher for his excellent research, presentations, and publications. His research in the evolution of policy and industrial structure in the energy sector is based at the Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge. Professor Chan has 20 years of experience in energy and environment industries in various senior positions. He has also worked in various roles, such as PI, Co-I, or project manager, on more than ten research projects funded by governments and industries, including from the European Commission, Interreg European Regional Development Fund, UKRI, Newton Fund Programme, British Academy-Leverhulme Trust, and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Malaysian government’s Fundamental Research Grant. 

Recently, Professor Chan has conducted research in clean-tech, e-commerce, creative industries (game, animation, ceramics), cultural and heritage sector, and tourism & hospitality sectors in the UK, Europe, China, and other countries in Asia, contributing to the theoretical understanding of international entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship orientation, entrepreneurship ecosystem, innovation diffusion, innovation ecosystem, industrial cluster & lifecycle, resource-based views, and sustainability. Professor Chan coined “self-gentrification” as a proactive concept to counter residents’ self-victimisation in gentrification. He was the PI of the UKRI ESRC Newton Fund project [ES/P)10377/1] on creative and cultural industries in Gorge Town World Heritage Site and the British Academy funded INNERUN project on innovation network in UNESCO World Heritage Sites in China. Prof Chan has a good knowledge of Gorge Town WHS site as he has lived, worked and researched in Penang, knowing culture and languages.  [email protected]