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(Source: sg.xinhuanet.com)
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Current Collaborations
To-date, SMU has collaborations with leading Chinese institutions across research, undergraduate programmes, postgraduate programmes, and training & development.
(a) Research
In Research, the six schools at SMU have already published research papers on China and are also collaborating with Chinese universities and corporate partners on specific areas of research. To give you an idea of the varied research work done at SMU, let me give you a few examples. Our School of Accountancy focus its research on corporate governance whilst our Lee Kong Chian School of Business has done a fair bit of research on corporate philanthropy and finance. Our School of Law is undertaking research on the World Trade Organisation and business laws in China; and at the same time, our School of Economics is focusing on innovation, health and labour issues in China. In addition, the School of Information Systems is working on research in social media and big data transfer, while the School of Social Sciences is conducting research on social development and China's international relations.
SMU's School of Social Sciences is working with Fudan University's State Innovative Institute for Public Management and Public Policy Studies to set up a Joint Research
Centre on Development Studies. The Centre will conduct research on issues related to social development in China, including rural reforms, land policy, urbanisation, migration and ageing. This is SMU’s first joint research centre with a university in China.
The School of Social Sciences has also received a $400,000 Tier 2 research grant from Singapore's Ministry of Education to undertake a three-year research project to systematically examine a series of social changes that have been sweeping through rural China in recent years. The research will focus on policies in three areas: land management, agricultural modernisation, and social welfare.
SMU's School of Information Systems has set up a research lab with Ping An Banking and Insurance Group to promote research, application and technology transfer of "Big Data". This is the first research partnership between SMU and a major Chinese corporation. Our School of Information Systems will utilise its expertise in analytics, data analysis and data mining to provide a range of business solutions to Ping An. These include analysing user behaviour base on large-scale social media data, and establishing a customised information extraction and filtering system for better and timely social information tracking, filtering and responding.
Our faculty from the Lee Kong Chian School of Business has published a number of papers on China’s innovation landscape, its innovation capacity, intellectual property rights and patenting strategies. There are also studies and projects examining Corporate Social Responsibility in China.
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