Education background

• From October 2003 to July 2006, he was a PhD candidate in Economic Geography at the Institute of Economic Geography, University of Hannover, Germany.
• September 2001 to September 2003, School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, majoring in Human Geography, Ph.D.
• From September 1994 to July 1997, Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences, majoring in human geography, master student.
• September 1987 to July 1989, Department of Geography, Anhui Normal University, majoring in Geography Education.

Research experience

• From August 1997 to present, Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences, Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor

Main research direction

• Technological Diffusion of High-Tech Industries, Regional High-Tech Clusters, Innovative Economic Geography

Major Social Part-time

• Director of China Regional Science Association
• Deputy Director of Regional Innovation Professional Committee of China Regional Science Association
• Director of Jiangsu Geographical Society

Honors and Awards

• 2003-2005 German Academic Exchange Center (DAAD) scholarship.
• 2007-2008 Outstanding Communist Party Member of Nanjing Normal University Faculty and Staff.
• 2010 German Academic Exchange Center (DAAD) re-invitation project scholarship.
• In 2017, the 15th "Challenge Cup" National College Students Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition - China Huaxin "Belt and Road" International Special Competition Second Prize Project Instructor.
• 2018 Jiangsu Province Excellent Professional Degree Master's Dissertation Instructor.
• 2018 National Teaching Achievement (Higher Education) Second Prize, ranked 7th.

Recently published papers (*corresponding author)

• Fu, Y.; Supryadi, A.; Wang, T*. China’s Outward FDI in Indonesia: Spatial Patterns and Determinants. Sustainability, 2018, 10(12), 4632. doi:10.3390/su10124632
• Wang Luwei, Xia Siyou, Chu Shanshan, Wang Supeng, Wang Tao*: The Economic Relations of Service Industry between Shanghai and the Surrounding Tourist Sources——Based on Short-term Flow Analysis of Weibo Audience Groups. Yangtze River Basin Resources and Environment, 2019, 28(8): 1811 -1822.
• Wang Tao, Chu Shanshan, Wang Luwei: Analysis of the dynamic mechanism and types of international interdisciplinary cooperation in the field of new energy in my country. Science and Technology China, 2019, (11): 17-22.
• Supryadi, A.*; Wang, T.; Chu, S.S.; et.al: Urbanization and Population Change: Banjar Municipality. In: Cirella, G.(ed): Sustainable Human–Nature Relations: Environmental Scholarship, Economic Evaluation, Urban Strategies. Singapore: Springer, 2020:205-223.
• Wang, T.; Kroll, H.*; Wang, Luwei.; Zheng, X.: How S&T connectivity supports innovation-driven development: an analysis of China's cooperation networks in high and new technology fields. Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2021 , 29(1): 134-157. DOI: 10.1080/19761597.2020.1792783
• Fu,Yu; Supryadi, Agus; Wang, Tao*; Wang, Luwei; Cirella, Giuseppe. Effects of Regional Innovation Capability on the Green Technology Efficiency of China's Manufacturing Industry: Evidence from Listed Companies. Energies, 2020, 13(20), 5467; doi:10.3390/en13205467
• Zhang, Yizheng; Wang, Tao*; Supiyadi, Agus; Zhang, Kun; Tang, Zhi. Evolution and Optimization of Urban Network Spatial Structure: A Case Study of Financial Enterprise Network in Yangtze River Delta, China. International Journal of Geo-Information , 2020, 9(10), 611; doi:10.3390/ijgi9100611
• Zhang Yizhen, Wang Tao*, Cao Weidong, Si Yuefang. Economic Geographical Research on Coordinated Regional Development from a Global Perspective: Progress and Prospects. Journal of Nanjing Normal University (Natural Science Edition). 2020,43(3):78-90.
• Melda Ria Juwita, Tao Wang, Yusup Gumilar Sukma, Maman Iskandar, Agus Supriyadi: Potentials and Challenges of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Indonesia. Nuansa: Jurnal Penelitian Ilmu Sosial dan Keagamaan Islam, 2020,17(2):195-217.
• Agus Supriyadia*, Tao Wang, Pandu Pribadic, M. Ali Mauludind, Faqih Ma'arife, Zalik Nuryana: A review of institutional response and Covid-19 pandemic risk communication in regional autonomy system in Indonesia. International Journal of Communication and Society, 2021 , 3(1):39-51.
• Melda Ria Juwita, Wang Tao*, Jiang Xinyang, Agus Supryadi, Faruq Ansori. Challenges of Spatial Planning in Indonesia in the Context of Local Autonomy. World Geographic Research, 2021, 30(1): 48-56.
• Chu Shanshan, Wang Tao*, Xia Siyou, Yang Xuemei, Chen Jing: Analysis of Enterprise Innovation Efficiency Differences and Influencing Factors from the Perspective of Innovation Value Chain—Based on the Verification of Enterprises in Jiangsu National High-tech Zone. Resources and Environment in the Yangtze River Basin, 2021, 30(2 ): 269-279.
• Zhang, Yizheng; Song, Rui; Zhang, Kun; Wang, Tao*: The characteristics and modes of urban network evolution in the Yangtze River Delta in China from 1990 to 2017. IEEE Access, 2021,9:5531-5544.
•  Wang Tao, Yang Xuemei: The Impact of University Technological Innovation Spillover Capability on Incubation Efficiency of National University Science Park. Journal of Central China Normal University (Natural Science Edition), 2021, 55(5): 876-889.
• Yu Fu, Xuemei Yang, Tao Wang*, Agus Supryadi, Giuseppe T. Cirella: Spatial pattern characteristics of the financial service industry: Evidence from Nanjing, China. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2021, online. https://doi.org /10.1007/s12061-021-09409-z
• Yizhen Zhang, Han Zhang, Yu Fu, Luwei Wang, Tao Wang*: Effects of industrial agglomeration and environmental regulation on urban ecological efficiency: evidence from 269 cities in China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021, 28: 66389–66408. https ://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15467-0
• Wang Tao, Wang Luwei*, Chu Shanshan: An Analysis of the Dual Innovation Path of China's High-Growth Enterprises——Taking the Gazelle Enterprises in the Self-created District of South Jiangsu as an Example. China Science and Technology Forum, 2021, (11): 57-68.
• Wang Luwei, Wang Tao*, Zhang Han: The Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Driving Factors of Urban Dual Innovation——Taking the Coupling Partitioning of Biomedical Multiple Innovation Factors as an Example. Geographical Science, 2021, 41(9): 1556-1568.
• Wang Luwei, Wang Tao*, Zhang Han: The Strategic Coupling Dynamics of Global Production Network and Local Innovation Network: Taking China's Biomedical Industry as an Example. Geographical Research, 2021, 40(12): 3314-3332.
• Wang Tao: Path Analysis of Nanjing Overseas Collaborative Innovation Center Embedding Global Innovation Network. Science and Technology China, 2022,(1):61-67.
• Yizhen Zhang, Zeng Deng, Agus Supryadi, Rui Song, Tao Wang*: Spatiotemporal spread characteristics and influencing factors of COVID-19 cases: Based on big data of population migration in China. Growth and Change, 2021. online. https:// doi.org/10.1111/grow.12604
• Wang Yue, Wang Tao*: Analysis of the Innovation Chain Structure of Global Geographic Information Industry. World Geographic Research, 2022,31(2): 225-235.
• Wang Tao, Wang Luwei*, Zhang Han: Dual Innovation Paths and Mechanisms of Emerging Technologies in Chinese Cities: Taking Biomedical Technology as an Example. Science and Technology Progress and Countermeasures, 2022, 39(6):29-39.
• Yizhen Zhang, Luwei Wang, Zhi Tang, Kun Zhang, Tao Wang*: Spatial effects of urban expansion on air pollution and eco-efficiency: Evidence from multisource remote sensing and statistical data in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022,367:132973 .

Major scientific research projects undertaken

• Research on Industrial Spatial Agglomeration of High-tech Parks from the Perspective of Knowledge Network——Taking South Jiangsu as an Example, 2010-2012, National Natural Science Foundation of China (40971069)
• Knowledge Network Structure Characteristics and Evolution of Jiangsu Industry-University-Research Cooperation, 2010-2012, Jiangsu Province Education Science "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" Project (D/2009/01/089)
• Research on the evolution of my country's biotechnology industry-university-research cooperation innovation network based on scientometrics, 2013, ISTIC-Thomson Reuters Scientometrics Joint Laboratory Open Fund (IT2012003)
• Research on Community Interaction Mechanism of Innovation Ecosystem of Strategic Emerging Industries in Jiangsu, 2013, Jiangsu Soft Science (BR2013079)
• Research on the Structure Evolution of Jiangsu High-tech Industry Innovation System Based on Value Galaxy——Taking Biotechnology Industry as an Example, 2013, National Soft Science (2013GXS4D116)
• The Representation of Urban Knowledge Flow and the Complexity of Its Structural Evolution, 2015-2018, National Natural Science Foundation of China (41471103)
• Research on Regional Models of International Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the Field of New Energy Research in my country, 2015-2016, Open Fund of ISTIC-ELSEVIER Journal Evaluation Research Center
• Research on the Improvement of Innovation Capability of Biotechnology Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, 2016-2017, Shanghai Municipal People's Government Decision Consulting Research Project (2016-A-117)
• Research on the Construction of Nanjing's Famous Innovative City Based on "Three Networks and Three Dimensions", 2019-2020, Nanjing Soft Science Research Program (201901012)
• Research on the Structure, Function and Evolution Mechanism of Multi-layer Innovation Network of Jiangsu High-tech Industry, 2020-2023, Major Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Jiangsu Universities (2020SJZDA135), Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education
• Development Advantages and Challenges of Chinese Overseas Parks in Indonesia, 2020, “Belt and Road Initiative” Innovative Talent Exchange Foreign Expert Project (DL20200214002), State Administration of Foreign Expertise
• Research on the Mode and Dynamic Mechanism of Strategic Coupling of High-tech Enterprise Relationship Networks in Local Environment——Taking my country's Biomedical Field as an Example, 2023-2026, National Natural Science Foundation of China (42271183)

Geography Teaching Papers

• (1) Wang Tao: The development status and prospects of German higher geography education. Journal of Nanjing Normal University (Natural Science Edition), 2009 (Special Issue on Teaching and Research): 150-151.
• (2) Dong Xiangkun, Wang Tao: Research on Geography Teaching Design Based on Variation Theory—Taking "the change of the length of day and night" as an example. Geography Teaching, 2016 (3): 17-21.
• (3) Jiang Zeyuan, Wang Tao: A comparative study of compulsory high school geography textbooks between China and Canada. Secondary School Geography Teaching Reference, 2017 (13): 48-50.
• (4) Cheng Mengmeng, Wang Tao: A comparative study on classroom questioning of geography-experienced teachers and expert teachers-based on the "multi-interactive" classroom observation platform. Geography Teaching, 2017 (4) :10-13.
• (5) Wang Tao, Mo Shaoqun, Tang Guoan: Research on the path of improving the innovation ability of geographic information science graduate students with the Collaborative Innovation Center as the platform. Journal of Nanjing Normal University (Natural Science Edition), 2017.40:4-7.
• (6) Gu Yue, Liang Jiayi, Wang Tao: The penetration of geographic core literacy in the new geography textbook for junior high school of the People's Education Edition. Secondary School Geography Teaching Reference, 2017 (10): 33-35.
• (7) Ge Xiaowen, Wang Tao: An Analysis of Teaching Cases of Unstructured Knowledge in Geography in Senior High Schools—Taking Geography Concept Teaching as an Example. Geography Teaching, 2017 (24): 33-35.
• (8) Wang Tao: Exploration on the reform of the integrated English-language curriculum of “Human Geography” from the perspective of hierarchical teaching—based on the practice of Nanjing Normal University. Proceedings of the University Earth Science Course Report Forum 2018 (online version), Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2019.11.
• (9) Wang Tao: Construction of "Powerful Geographical Knowledge" - Bridging Geography Academic Research and Basic Education. Geography Teaching, 2022(2): 22-24.

Contact

• Email: wangtao@njnu.edu.cn
• Office Address: Room 609, School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University
• Mailing address: School of Geographical Sciences, No. 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing Normal University
• Tel: 025--85891745