lei guo

Lei Guo, Ph.D.

  • Visiting Scholar
616 Serra StreetEncina Hall E301Stanford, CA94305-6055
(650) 723-6530 (fax)

Biography

Dr. GUO Lei is an associate professor at School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Peking University where she is responsible for the innovative and entrepreneurial education and research.  She is the Deputy Dean of School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Deputy Director of Office of Science and Technology Development at Peking University.

Dr. GUO Lei leads the entrepreneurial and innovative education programs and incubation programs, which provides PKU students, professors and alumni courses, mentorship, seed funding, incubation space and network connections to early stage investors.  She has successfully set up Entrepreneurial Talent Development Program for the youth in 2012, both in campus and off campus.  And she always keeps scaling up the program over China.  Till now, more than 4,000 young entrepreneurs take part in the program on-line and off-line, and over 30 star-ups come out from the program.  She set up a fund which aims to support the entrepreneurial education activities and help the students to commercialization their ideas in 2014 at PKU.  She is working on China Entrepreneurship MOOC Platform by the support of Shandong Province.  She and her colleagues initiated the first Train the Trainer Program in entrepreneurship courses at PKU in 2016, which teaches the teachers all over the nation how to teach and mentor their students to know what is entrepreneurship and how to be an entrepreneur.

Dr. GUO Lei is the coordinator scholar for Global Innovation Index Program of World Intellectual Property Organization at Peking University.  She is the co-founder of China Innovation Index Research Center at SIE, PKU, which aims to support local governments to build the innovation-driven economic growth system and to evaluate the innovation efficiency.  She is the co-champion of China Cohort of MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program from 2015 to 2017.  The team is made up of different stakeholders who come from university, government, risk capital, corporate and entrepreneur.  The goal is to give the scientific and professional consultant to Hebei Province on how to build an innovative national agriculture park.  She has published over 20 papers in The Global Innovation Index 2015, The Development of Research and Management (in Chinese), Peking University Education Review (in Chinese), Bulletin of National Natural Science Foundation of China (in Chinese), Academic Degree and Graduate Education (in Chinese) and Guangming Daily (in Chinese).