Joonho Oh is an Assistant Professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management. His research explores institutional and social contexts that foster the emergence and growth of groundbreaking business ideas, with a special focus on entrepreneurial support organizations. His research addresses three interrelated questions: how entrepreneurial support organizations influence entrepreneurs and ecosystems, how entrepreneurs leverage support from these organizations, and how these entrepreneurial support models and collaborative governance co-evolve over time.
Joonho completed his Ph.D. in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Master’s in Public Policy and B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University. Before entering academia, he worked for the Ministry of Science & ICT in South Korea from 2012 to 2019, taking charge of multiple R&D and entrepreneurship support programs.