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Leveraging University Research into Medical Innovations with Social Impact: Biotechnology Entrepreneurship in Japan's New Startup Ecosystem
January 21, 2022
This event will offer simultaneous translation between Japanese and English. 当イベントは日本語と英語の同時通訳がついています。 This is a virtual event.
Energy Innovation in Japan and the Future of Climate Change
January 21, 2022
This event will offer simultaneous translation between Japanese and English. 当イベントは日本語と英語の同時通訳がついています。 This is a virtual event.
Tapping the Untapped Human Resource Potential with Social Tech: Diversity, Globalization, and the Future of Work
January 21, 2022
This event will offer simultaneous translation between Japanese and English. 当イベントは日本語と英語の同時通訳がついています。 This is a virtual event.
From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
September 23, 2020
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A View from Across the Pacific: Chinese Perceptions of the United States
September 23, 2020
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China’s Belt, Road, and Beyond: State Mobilization and Localized Implementation
September 23, 2020
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Military Competition with China: Harder to Win Than During the Cold War?
September 23, 2020
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Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from Facial Recognition AI Firms in China
April 20, 2020
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The New Economy Conference: Navigating Chinese Investment, Trade, and Technology
April 1, 2020
Please note the event time has been changed to 10:30AM (PT) to 12:00PM (PT). This is a virtual event.
CANCELED: Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from Facial Recognition AI Firms in China
March 13, 2020
IMPORTANT EVENT UPDATE: In keeping with Stanford University's March 3 message to the campus community on COVID-19 and current recommendations of the CDC, the Asia-Pacific Research Center is...
The US, China, and the Technology Cold War: How Washington and Beijing are Shaping the Future of Technology
March 4, 2020
IMPORTANT EVENT UPDATE: In keeping with Stanford University's March 3 message to the campus community on COVID-19 and current recommendations of the CDC, the Asia-Pacific Research Center is...
China's Economic Development: A Forty Year Perspective
February 5, 2020
WE HAVE REACHED VENUE CAPACITY AND ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING RSVPS China has grown faster for longer than any country in recorded history. Is it market-oriented reform, state industrial policy, or...
Population Aging, Productivity, and Technology in Japan
December 10, 2019
Japan faces a rapid population decrease and aging. Workers’ aging is negatively associated with labor productivity.
Aging Japan as Global Opportunity? How Japan’s Extreme Demographics are Shaping Technological Trajectories
October 23, 2019
The demographics of Japan’s aging society has galvanized a wide range of corporate efforts, supported both directly and indirectly by the government, to aggressively develop artificial intelligence...
The Logistics Operations Underlying Retail: US, China, and Japanese Models Compared
September 12, 2019
This event is part of the Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project Public Forum Series. Consumption is a major driver of national economies, and scholars often study important differences across...
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Intelligence Augmentation (IA), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI): Frontier Research and Policies for Navigating the Future Together
May 6, 2019
The diffusion and deployment of technology is not simply shaped by the technology itself.
Japan in the Bay Area: From Competition to Collaboration
February 26, 2019
The Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the Walter H.
Innovative Japanese Companies Harnessing Silicon Valley - Part 2
December 20, 2018
This is part 2 of a talk presenting how innovative large Japanese companies are harnessing Silicon Valley.
An Insider’s Vantage on 20 years of Japan’s Startup Ecosystem, its Current Challenges, And Attempts to Harness Silicon Valley
November 19, 2018
Hiroaki Yasutake has had a front row seat in the development of Japan’s startup ecosystem for the past 20 years as he joined Rakuten as one of its earliest employees, spending many years at its CTO...
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...
Towards a New Japan: Connecting Japan’s Biggest Challenges with Global Technology Solutions
March 14, 2018
As the Tokyo-based co-founder and managing partner of global VC fund Fresco Capital, Allison Baum is frequently asked “Why are you in Japan?” Indeed, with a global network of corporate partners,...
The Rise and Fall of Giants: ICT Disruptions from Silicon Valley, Nokia, China, and Japan
March 8, 2018
The rise of Nokia as a global ICT leader in the 1990s and early 2000s was dramatic, as a company from the small Nordic country of Finland became a global titan.
Patterns of Innovation in Asia: Large Companies Harnessing the Power of Small Firm Innovation
October 10, 2017
*/ We have reached venue capacity. RSVPs are no longer being accepted.In China, Japan, and Korea, large companies have historically played predominant roles in their economies.
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