Congratulations to Professor Stephen Cummings, who will be researching entrepreneurship later this year at the University of Peking, one of China's highest ranked universities.

Professor Stephen Cummings will be taking up a Fellowship at one of China’s highest ranked universities in August, where he will question prevailing Western-centric assumptions about creativity in business.

The Professor of Strategic Management will spend the second half of the year at University of Peking's (PKU) New Zealand Centre, where he will research the history and evolution of entrepreneurship in China.

This research will have a particular focus on the role of Rewi Alley, the New Zealand writer, political activist and social reformer famous for helping establish organisations in China to promote grassroots industrial and economic development from the 1930s.

Professor Cummings will also deliver a public lecture at PKU, and help develop a new 'Creativity in Management' programme, jointly run by PKU and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and designed to promote creativity research in academia and industry in China.

"While at PKU, I will be gathering insights into how entrepreneurship and creativity happen differently in China, compared to how it is approached in the Anglo-American world," he says.

"I'll also be able to look back and question assumptions that we in the West make about how entrepreneurship and creativity works, and which we often assume to be universal."

PKU consistently ranks as number one or two out of China’s universities, and is currently ranked 41st in the world.

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