Selina Cao

Zhe (Selina) is a Research Fellow in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at UQ Business School and an ARC Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology. Her PhD research focuses on value creation, orchestration, and change of entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems, particularly in the context of digitalization. A significant portion of Selina’s current research explores university-industry collaborations, interdisciplinarity, and novel organizational forms to address grand challenges. She employs an interdisciplinary approach and qualitative research methodologies. Her teaching areas include innovation and entrepreneurship.

Selina earned her PhD in Management and Entrepreneurship from Imperial College London. During her PhD, she held a visiting position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where she conducted fieldwork on the evolution and orchestration of the Alibaba innovation ecosystem. She also served as an Entrepreneurship Coach at the Imperial Enterprise Lab, supporting over 200 entrepreneurs in developing and validating their ideas. Prior to her time at Imperial College London, she worked as an auditor at PwC in the Philadelphia and Toronto offices.