Rate My Professor Hien Thu Tran

Hien Thu Tran is an Associate Professor in Strategy at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. She holds a B.A. from Foreign Trade University, an MBA from Maastricht University, and a Ph.D. from Trento University. Prior to her current role, she served as a lecturer at RMIT University in Australia and as a senior lecturer at Edge Hill University in the United Kingdom. She also completed postdoctoral research at the Department of Economics, University of Bologna in Italy, following her doctoral studies at the School of Social Science, University of Trento.

Tran specializes in strategy and entrepreneurship, with research focused on innovation and entrepreneurship in transition countries, entrepreneurial knowledge spillover, and related topics in management and industrial economics. She has published extensively in high-impact journals including the Journal of Business Venturing, Industrial and Corporate Change, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Small Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, and others. Notable publications include works from 2019 through 2025 on topics such as institutional quality, ownership and innovation, socialist imprints on innovation strategies, and determinants of different forms of entrepreneurship. She has secured research funding from sources including SSHRC and MITACS. Her professional experience also includes involvement in international projects sponsored by NUFFIC and JICA focused on training entrepreneurs and building research capacity in developing countries.