Dr Yichen Xi

Dr Yichen Xi

Department of Management
Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Contact details

Email
y.xi.2@bham.ac.uk
Address
Birmingham Business School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Yichen Xi is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Birmingham, UK and a British Scholar at the Beijing Institute of Technology in Blockchain and AI, China. He has been specialising in blockchain technology and its sophisticated applications in 2018.

He is a certified Chartered Manager (CMgr) by the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Advance Higher Education Academy (FHEA). He has presented and published his work not only in leading journals, such as the Academy of Management and Journal of Product Innovation Management, but also in top research institutes, such as the Alan Turing Institute and IEEE. Driven by a passion for blockchain healthcare, he strives to make groundbreaking contributions to both the conceptual and pragmatic ramifications of the field.

 

Qualifications

  • PhD in Management, University of Birmingham
  • MSc in Entrepreneurship, University of Warwick
  • BEng in Automotive Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology

Research

Yichen's research interests span entrepreneurship, innovation, and information systems management. In entrepreneurship. He is broadly interested in entrepreneurship theory and practice across diverse organisational and institutional contexts. In innovation studies, his current research focuses on technology innovation and process innovation, with particular emphasis on blockchain-enabled, process-based innovation and AI-enabled business model generation. He is also interested in information systems management, especially emerging information systems and their implications for organisational strategy, governance, and public sector applications, including Web3 technologies and blockchain-enabled healthcare ecosystems.

Publications

Xi, Y., Kromidha, E., Shiu, E. (2026). A blockchain-enabled decentralized trust approach to non-commercial public sector innovations: mitigating efficiency-fairness tensions. Journal of Product Innovation Management, Review and Resubmit.

Kromidha, E., Dutta, D., Xi, Y., Jesus, V. (2026). Destructive entrepreneurship in the Darknet: between institutional logics and entrepreneurial agency. Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, Review and Resubmit.