Yichen Xi, SFHEA

Dr Yichen Xi is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Birmingham, UK and a British Scholar at the Beijing Institute of Technology in Blockchain and AI, China. He has been specialising in blockchain technology and its sophisticated applications in 2018.

He is a certified Chartered Manager (CMgr) by the Chartered Management Institute and a Senior Fellow of the Advance Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He has presented and published his work not only in leading journals, such as the Academy of Management and Journal of Product Innovation Management, but also in top research institutes, such as the Alan Turing Institute and IEEE. Driven by a passion for blockchain healthcare, he strives to make groundbreaking contributions to both the conceptual and pragmatic ramifications of the field.

Yichen's research interests span entrepreneurship, innovation, and information systems management. In entrepreneurship, he is broadly interested in entrepreneurship theory and practice across diverse organisational and institutional contexts. In innovation studies, his current research focuses on technology innovation and process innovation, with particular emphasis on blockchain-enabled, process-based innovation and AI-enabled business model generation. He is also interested in information systems management, especially emerging information systems and their implications for organisational strategy, governance, and public sector applications, including Web3 technologies and blockchain-enabled healthcare ecosystems.

PhD in Management, University of Birmingham

MSc in Entrepreneurship, University of Warwick

BEng in Automotive Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology