Advisors

Biography
Currently, (1) An active Industrial & Organizational (I/O PsyD) Consultant; (2) Vice President & Principal of PCG Commercial Group, and Partner of eXp Realty (branch offices in 50 U.S. states, Canada, Europe,
South America, and Australia); and (3) Adj Professor, MBA Program Advisor (Fall’17), Business Honors (BHON) Advisor (Spring’18), dual membership of the CSUS Faculty Senate’s Academic Policies
Committee (2017-2019) and Re-admission Subcommittee (2017-2018), and council leadership at CSUS California Faculty Association (CFA) Capitol Chapter.
Areas of Interests
Teaching Business, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Management, Marketing, OB & OD Research Human Resource Accounting & Workforce Analytics, Real Estate Finance & Investment Faculty Scholarship (AACSB certified SA status since 7/2018)
Refereed Journal Articles
VanVo, J. (2019). U.S. Initiated Human Resource Accounting and Its Contribution to Improved Employees’ Morale and the Quality of Worklife – Gypsum case Study. Athens Institute for Education and
Research (ATINER)(CBC2018-2623), 23. Published: March 13, 2019. (C – Article in a refereed journal not included in category A or B)
Other Intellectual Contributions
Conference Proceeding – International (Accepted) VanVo, J. (in press). U.S. EB-5 Immigrant Investor
Program: History, Evolvement and Application of Overseas Investors’ Financial Investment in Exchange for the American Residency and Job Creation: A Regional Center Case Study in Los Angeles California.
Athens: 17th Annual Int’l Conference on Finance. Accepted: January 2, 2019. (E – Proceedings selective of a scholarly meeting) VanVo, J. 2018. Gypsum human resource accounting. Working Paper. University of Florida PDBP
Cohort 2018.
Book
Le, Hoa & Vo, Joseph M. Van (2010). VIETNAM: The Springhead of Eastern Cultural Civilization (3rd ed). Vietnam Library. Amazon ASIN: B004EI1YS6.
TV
“Real Estate in the Greater Sacramento Area – 2018,” AMERICANDREAMNETWORK.TV. (June 15, 2018). Description: Real estate status report for the Greater Sacramento Area through June, 2018.

Background
Martin Fransman is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Edinburgh. He now lives in north London.

He is currently working on providing free COVID innovation help, and assistance with designing Innovation Ecosystems, to businesses, governments, hospitals and other organisations through his website, www.freecovidinnovationhelp.com

Martin is an international expert in innovation and competitiveness. He has advised companies large and small and governments all over the world. Fortune 500 companies he has worked with include AT&T, France Telecom, Fujitsu, Mastercard, Michelin, NEC, Nokia, NTT, Siemens, Skype, Telefonica, Toyota, and Vodafone. He has advised many international organisations including the European Commission, ILO, OECD, UNCTAD, UNECLA, UNESCAP, UNIDO, and the World Bank.

His books have won three important prizes. The Joseph Schumpeter Prize (Cambridge University Press), the most prestigious prize in the economics of innovation. The Wadsworth Prize (Oxford University Press) for the best business history book published in the UK, and the Japanese Prime Minister’s Ohira Prize (Cambridge University Press).

He has published thirteen books the most recent of which is ‘Innovation Ecosystems – Increasing Competitiveness’, Cambridge University Press. Those who endorsed this book on its cover include Arno Penzias, Nobel Laureate in Physics and former Vice President Research at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories; Sir Geoffrey Owen, former editor of the Financial Times; Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times; Lord Alistair Darling, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer; and Richard Nelson, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and pioneer of Schumpeterian Evolutionary Economics.

He has been visiting professor at several universities around the world and was NTT Professor at the Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at the University of Tokyo.

He was the Founder-Director of the Institute for Japanese-European Technology Studies (JETS) at the University of Edinburgh. JETS was supported by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and the Japanese electronics companies, NEC and Fujitsu. JETS was launched at a reception in the Tokyo residence of the then British Ambassador to Japan, Sir John Whitehead.

In China he was invited by the incoming government of Xi Jinping to join several Fortune 500 companies in preparing a report for the Chinese government on the role of innovation in China’s future development. He was a member of the expert group advising the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) on the UK’s science and technology relationship with China. He regularly gave lectures on innovation to CEOs and other executives from Chinese state-owned enterprises at the China Executive Leadership Programme (CELP) held each year at the University of Cambridge.