Kwanghui’s research explores the strategies used by firms to manage intellectual property and the commercialisation process. His doctoral thesis at MIT won the Academy of Management and INFORMS Best Dissertation Award (2001) in the Technology Management area, as well as the 2001 Richard R. Nelson Best Dissertation Award. Recent papers include a study on the use of “knowledge brokering” by biotechnology startups (with David Hsu, Wharton), the impact of corporate acquisitions on the productivity of inventors (with Rahul Kapoor, INSEAD), and the role of intellectual property and complementary assets in the competition among wireless telecommunications firms (with Zi-lin He and Poh-kam Wong).