Entrepreneurship
Scholarly Publications
The persistence of entrepreneurship and innovative immigrants
March 2018
Ethnicity and immigration status may play a role in entrepreneurship and innovation, yet the impact of university entrepreneurship education on this relationship is under-explored.
Abenomics and Japan's Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Is the Third Arrow Pointed in the Right Direction for Global Competition in the Digital Era of Silicon Valley?
March 2018
Given that much of the global leadership in value creation over the past couple of decades has been driven by the Silicon Valley model – not only a geographic region but a distinct ecosystem of...
Artificial Intelligence: The Algorithmic Revolution Driving the Next Industrial Transformation
March 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming one of the underlying drivers of the next wave of industrial transformations.
Other Publications
Break Through: Women in Silicon Valley, Womenomics in Japan Final Report
October 2018
On August 9, 2018, the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC) hosted a conference, “Break Through: Women in Silicon Valley, Womenomics in Japan" with support from the Acceleration Program...
Womenomics, the Workplace, and Women Final Report
March 2017
The Japan Program at Stanford’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), with the generous support of the United States-Japan Foundation and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,...
New Channels Dialogue 2015 Final Report
April 2015
In its second year, the Stanford-Sasakawa Peace Foundation New Channels Dialogue focused on innovation.
News
Break Through: Women in Silicon Valley, Womenomics in Japan Conference Final Report
October 2018
On August 9, 2018 the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC) Japan Program hosted a conference, "Break Through: Women in Silicon Valley, Womenomics in Japan." Women thought-leaders and...
Opinion: Next Korea, Next Generation
September 2018
Researchers in the Korea Program regularly contribute to Korean media on the Korean affairs ranging from education and economics to politics and North Korea nuclear issues.
Should we enroll kids in coding classes?
August 2018
"I do think that there is a certain digital language that will be beneficial to young people, students, in the very near future," says Yong Suk Lee, deputy director of the Korea Program, in a...
Events
A New Perspective on News: The SmartNews Approach and Political Balancing
October 5, 2018
In 2012, as giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google began to position themselves as the go-to places to read news, a little-known news app called SmartNews emerged and started gaining...
HARNESSING SILICON VALLEY: THE STRATEGIES, STRUCTURES, AND ACTIVITIES OF INNOVATIVE LARGE JAPANESE FIRMS IN SILICON VALLEY
September 11, 2018
Large Japanese firms have a long history of having offices in Silicon Valley, mostly starting in the 1980s and 1990s in the heyday of semiconductors, early computing, software, and communications...
Break Through: Women in Silicon Valley, Womenomics in Japan
July 6, 2018
Gender inequality in the workplace is still a reality and an issue that must be tackled head-on in Silicon Valley and Japan.
Projects
Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project
[Stanford Silicon Valley - New Japan Project Website] Motivation There has been by a heightened interest in Silicon Valley as an innovation system.
English
Entrepreneurship in Japan: New Patterns After Post-Bubble Reforms
After the end of the bubble economy in Japan in the early 1990s, policymakers legislated an ambitious program to reform corporate governance, finance, and education.
English
India Risk Capital Project
The objective of this project is to research the risk capital industry in India, with a focus on early stage investing, in order to recommend investment models, institutions and mechanisms to...
English
Multimedia
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
February 2016
Video and transcript from the event "U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman on the Trans-Pacific Partnership" on Feb. 16, 2016.
One Year After Japan’s 3/11 Disaster: Reforming Japan’s Energy Sector, Governance, and Economy
February 2012
In the year following Japan’s 3/11 triple disaster of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear incident, fundamental issues in Japan’s political economy are being debated.
One Year After Japan’s 3/11 Disaster: Reforming Japan’s Energy Sector, Governance, and Economy
February 2012
In the year following Japan’s 3/11 triple disaster of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear incident, fundamental issues in Japan’s political economy are being debated.
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