Professor Hing Kai Chan is the Director of the AHRC Centre Centre for Digital Copyright and IP Research in China (the AHRC Centre), and Acting Associate Dean for Education & Student Experience, Professor of Operations Management.
The AHRC Centre’s vision is to advance knowledge concerning responsible digital innovation to unlock firms’ capabilities and potential for digital innovations in contemporary and accountable ways. The AHRC Centre has a broad research focus and goes beyond the business management discipline to incorporate Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Economy and Technologies, (Intellectual Property) Law and Business (Strategic) Analytics. The AHRC Centre aims to achieve its vision via high-quality, interdisciplinary research and contributions to academia-industry collaborations with our collaborators from international universities and industry partners.
We live in a booming digital era of disruptive technologies such as AI, 3D printing, and blockchain. These techniques have reshaped traditional business models and stimulated operational resilience and innovation agility opportunities. Meanwhile, the pervasive digital transformation poses potential issues regarding the quantity and complexity of data transmission, storage and security, which brings new and emerging risks and challenges to privacy, personal information, data security and intellectual property protection. All these have created the need to pursue the vision mentioned above.
Since its establishment in 2015 and building upon its excellent track records and past successes, the AHRC Centre has established partnerships with the University of Exeter, the University of Sussex, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and leading 3D printing companies in Ningbo, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Singapore through joint projects and workshops. We are expanding our influence in broader research fields and industries.