Rate My Professor Julie Miao

Professor Miao's research focuses on urban entrepreneurialism, housing and capital dynamics, knowledge economies, innovation districts, science parks, technopoles, transnational policy transfer, and rural transformations through e-commerce, with significant attention to China, Singapore, and global contexts. She secured the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2021 for her project examining innovation infrastructure planning to future-proof Australia's growth. Her scholarship has amassed over 1,500 citations, evidenced by Google Scholar metrics. Key publications include the co-edited volume Making 21st Century Knowledge Complexes: Technopoles of the World 20 Years After (Routledge, 2015); "Varieties of urban entrepreneurialism" (Dialogues in Human Geography, 2020, with N.A. Phelps); "The second cold war: US-China competition for centrality in infrastructure, digital, production, and finance networks" (Geopolitics, 2024, with S. Schindler et al.); "E-commerce and the transformation of the rural: The Taobao village phenomenon in Zhejiang Province, China" (Journal of Rural Studies, 2021, with C.C. Wang et al.); "Housing and Capital in the 21st Century" (Housing, Theory and Society, 2017, with D. Maclennan); "The intrapreneurial state: Singapore’s emergence in the smart and sustainable urban solutions field" (Territory, Politics, Governance, 2019, with N.A. Phelps); and "Optical illusion? The growth and development of the Optics Valley of China" (Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2014, with P. Hall). Forthcoming works feature the Research Handbook on Housing Policy (Edward Elgar, with D. Maclennan).