Dan Prud'homme

Assistant Professor, Department of International Business

College of Business
Florida International University

Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 S.W. 8th St, MANGO 442
Miami, FL 33199

Phone: (305) 348-4218
Email: dprudhom@fiu.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Management
MGSM, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

LLM in Intellectual Property Law
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Master of Public Policy
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

PgC in Law
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Areas of Expertise

Business in China
Innovation
Intellectual property
International business
Law and institutions
Strategy

Professional Activities

Dan Prud'homme is an assistant professor at Florida International University (FIU)’s College of Business (Miami, FL, USA). Previously, he worked at a business school in Paris, France. Prior to joining academia, Dan worked for a decade in Beijing and Shanghai, China, specializing in intellectual property and innovation management, nonmarket strategies, and international trade. He was a consultant at one of the world’s largest law firms, manager of the IPR and R&D working groups at the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, and an expert at the EU-China IP Key division of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). In those roles, Dan worked closely with multinational enterprises and local firms, as well as Chinese, EU, and US government officials. Prior to that, Dan worked in the legislature in the US. Dan has formally advised the World Bank, China's State Intellectual Property Office (now CNIPA), the European Commission, and other organizations. Dan’s research has been cited by the New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Associated Press, Washington Post, and other news outlets.

After completing his PhD in management in 2017, Dan was a visiting research fellow and a teaching fellow at University of Oxford (UK) for a year. He also holds graduate degrees in law and public policy.

Courses Taught

Strategic Management

Publications

Prud'homme D., & He W.
(2024).
Industrial specialization in China: effects of central tools governing subnational agency.
Management and Organization Review
.
Prud'homme, D., & Tong, T.
(2023).

Rethinking firm-specific advantages from intellectual property rights: Boundary conditions for MNEs.
Journal of International Business Studies
.
Prud'homme, D., Chen, G., & Tong, T.
(2023).

Are super-apps coming to the U.S. market?
Harvard Business Review
.
Rolfes, D., Prud'homme, D., & Kalloe, V.
(2023).

International tax reform the C-Suite can't ignore.
MIT Sloan Management Review
.
Prud'homme, D., Tong, T., & Han, N.
(2021).

A stakeholder-based view of the evolution of intellectual property institutions.
Journal of International Business Studies
.
Prud'homme, D.
(2019).

3 myths about China's IP regime.
Harvard Business Review
.
Prud'homme, D.
(2019).

Re-conceptualizing intellectual property regimes in international business research: foreign-friendliness paradoxes facing MNCs in China.
Journal of World Business
.
Prud'homme, D., & von Zedtwitz, M.
(2019).

Managing “forced” technology transfer in emerging markets: The case of China.
Journal of International Management
.
Prud'homme, D., & von Zedtwitz, M.
(2018).

The changing face of innovation in China.
MIT Sloan Management Review
.
Prud'homme, D., von Zedtwitz, M., Jan Thraen, J., & Bader, M.
(2018).

“Forced technology transfer” policies: workings in China and strategic implications.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
.
Prud'homme, D.
(2017).

Utility model patent regime “strength” and technological development: experiences of China and other East Asian latecomers.
China Economic Review
.
Zhang, T., Prud'homme, D., & Lutze, O.
(2017).

China’s new patent commercialization strategy.
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice
.
Prud'homme, D.
(2016).

Dynamics of China's provincial-level specialization in strategic emerging industries.
Research Policy
.
Prud'homme, D.
(2016).

Forecasting threats and opportunities for foreign innovators in China’s strategic emerging industries: a policy-based analysis.
Thunderbird International Business Review
.

Books

Paik Y., Chen D., Newburry B., & Prud'homme D.
(2025).
Global Business: Connecting Theory to Reality.
Routledge
.
Prud'homme D., & Zhang T.
(2019).
China's Intellectual Property Regime for Innovation.
Springer
.
Prud'homme D., & Song H.
(2016).
Economic Impacts of Intellectual Property-Conditioned Government Incentives.
Springer
.