On the morning of October 30, Professor Bert Sadowski of Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, gave a special lecture on the evolution of innovation models amid AI for faculty and students in Conference Room 1301 at the School of Finance and Economics.

Professor Bert Sadowski systematically elaborated on how artificial intelligence is reshaping the logic of innovation from multiple perspectives, including a comparison of the innovation systems of China, the United States and the Netherlands, the established logic of open innovation, the three modes of AI action — augmentation, enablement and substitution, and empirical evidence from live experiments on enterprise AI assistants. Drawing on cases such as ASML, Philips, DeepSeek and Legrand’s data center solutions, he delivered explanations and led on-site discussions. After the lecture, students and young faculty members actively engaged in interaction and exchanges, and Professor Bert Sadowski responded to their questions and topics one by one.

Professor Bert Sadowski is a faculty member at the School of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands. He obtained his doctorate from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK. He has previously worked at renowned universities and research institutions including Delft University of Technology.He has led six national-level research projects funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), the United Nations, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests cover the socio-economic impacts of technological change, cross-border technology investment, and AI-enabled upgrading of teaching and research. He has published papers in top international journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies and Research Policy.