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Patient Trust in Physicians in China: A Survey of Beijing

Thursday, June 3, 2010 | 12:00 PM -Thursday, June 3, 2010 | 1:30 PM

The Chinese health care system has experienced profound changes like retrenchment of state financial support in the past decades. These changes have prompted the Chinese media and some academics to suggest that patients have a relatively low level of trust in physicians in today's China. In this colloquium, Dr. Tam reports the results of his survey of patient trust in physicians in Beijing's public hospitals. The survey was conducted by Horizon Research Group between November 2009 and January 2010, and 434 patients were interviewed.

The survey asked the respondents their degree of trust regarding the following three dimensions: physician agency, competence, and information provision. The survey finds a relatively high level of patient trust in physicians in Beijing public hospitals. Additionally, the survey data highlight three major determinants of patient trust in physicians, namely exposure to negative media reports about physicians and hospitals; the patient's self-assessed health status; and the patient’s level of education and income.

Waikeung Tam received his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Chicago in 2009. He is currently a Research Fellow at the LKY School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on public policy, political development, law and society, with special reference to China and Hong Kong. His research has been published in China Review, Asian Perspective, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Law & Social Inquiry.

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Thitinan Pongsudhirak

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Thitinan Pongsudhirak is a high-profile expert on contemporary political, economic, and foreign-policy issues in Thailand today He is also a prolific author; witness his op ed, "Moving beyond Thaksin," in the 25 February 2010 Wall Street Journal.

Pongsudhirak is not senior in years, but he is in stature. His career path has been meteoric since he earned his BA in political science with distinction at UC-Santa Barbara not long ago. In 2001 he received the United Kingdom's Best Dissertation Prize for his doctoral thesis at the London School of Economics on the political economy of Thailand's 1997 economic crisis.

Since 2006 he has held an associate professorship in international relations at Thailand's premier institution of higher education, Chulalongkorn University, while simultaneously heading the Institute of Security and International Studies, the country's leading think tank on foreign affairs.

His many publications include: "After the Red Uprising," Far East Economic Review, May 2009; "Why Thais Are Angry," The New York Times, 18 April 2009; "Thailand Since the Coup," Journal of Democracy, October-December 2008; and "Thaksin: Competitive Authoritarian and Flawed Dissident," in Dissident Democrats: The Challenge of Democratic Leadership in Asia, ed. John Kane et al. (2008). He has written on bilateral free-trade areas in Asia, co-authored a book on Thailand's trade policy, and is admired by Southeast Asianist historians for having insightfully revisited, in a 2007 essay, the sensitive matter of Thailand's role during World War II.

He was a Salzburg Global Seminar Faculty Member in June 2009, Japan Foundation's Cultural Leader in 2008, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore) in 2005. For ten years, in tandem with his academic career, he worked as an analyst for The Economist's Intelligence Unit.

Exploring The Myths Of Japanese Entrepreneurship

Friday, February 26, 2010 | 10:00 AM -Friday, February 26, 2010 | 11:00 AM

Long before the current global economic crisis, Japan adopted important reforms in commerce, corporate governance, finance, and education. These changes stemming from the 1990s "lost decade" have created new opportunities for entrepreneurial activity.
Following a presentation of new cross-sectional data on 60,000 operating Japanese corporations started in the last decade, the panel will discuss the state of Japanese entrepreneurship. What companies are forming? Who is behind them? What are their potential fates?

This discussion is part of continuing research being undertaken by SPRIE's Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship and is presented in conjunction with Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford.

About the Panelists

Richard Dasher is Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford University and has been with the Center since 1993. Dr. Dasher maintains an active business consulting practice on international strategy and planning, technology trend and opportunity analysis, and Japan market entry and performance improvement.

Robert Eberhart is the SPRIE Researcher at the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and leads the SPRIE-Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship. He researches comparative corporate governance of growth companies with emphasis on Japan and the role of institutions in fostering entrepreneurship. Previously, he founded and served as CEO of WineInStyle, a VC-funded start-up Japanese company.

Shigeo Kagami is Professor and General Manager of Science Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (SEED) at the University of Tokyo. His responsibilities there include entrepreneurship education, management of incubation facilities for university start-ups, and relationship management with The University of Tokyo Edge Capital.

Kenji E. Kushida is a Graduate Researcher at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) and a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at University of California Berkeley.

William Miller is Co-Director of the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Serving as Vice President and Provost of Stanford and President and CEO of SRI International are just two of the many highlights of Dr. Miller's illustrious career in business and academia. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Sentius Corporation and is a Founder and Chairman of Nanostellar, Inc.

Allen Miner is a founder and General Partner of SunBridge Partners and founder and Director of SunBridge Corporation. After joining Oracle Corporation in 1986 he founded and helped lead Oracle Japan, and later served as Oracle's Vice President in charge of Linux/Open Source. He founded SunBridge Corporation in 1999 with the aim of creating a dynamic, collaborative environment in which Japanese information technology startups develop at a globally competitive pace.

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At Stanford University, Dr. Dasher has directed the US-Asia Technology Management Center since 1994, and he has been Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Systems since 1998. He holds Consulting Professor appointments at Stanford in the Departments of Electrical Engineering (technology management), Asian Languages and Cultures (Japanese business), and at the Asia-Pacific Research Center for his work with the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is also faculty adviser to student-run organizations such as the Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society and the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford.

From 2004, Dr. Dasher became the first non-Japanese person ever asked to join the governance of a Japanese national university, serving a term as a Board Director (理事) of Tohoku University . He continued as a member of the Management Council (経営協議会) until March 2010, and he now serves as Senior Advisor to the President (総長顧問) of Tohoku University. Dr. Dasher has been a member of the high-profile Program Committee of the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) of the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT) since 2007. He has served on the Multidisciplinary Assessment Committee of the C$500 million Canada Foundation for Innovation Leading Edge Fund in 2007 and again in 2010, and as a member of the Phase I and Phase II Review Panels of the C$200 million Canada Excellence Research Chairs Program in 2008 and again in 2010. He was a distinguished reviewer of the Hong Kong S.A.R. study on innovation in 2008–09, and since 2007 he has been a member of the Foresight Panel of the German Ministry of Education and Research. From 2001–03, Dr. Dasher was on the International Planning Committee advising the Japanese Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy in regard to the formation of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.

As allowed by Stanford policy, Dr. Dasher maintains an active management consulting practice, through which he is an advisor to start-up companies and large firms in the U.S., Japan, and China. He has been a board director of Tokyo-based ZyCube Inc. since 2006, and he is founder and chairman of Pearl Executive Shuttle in Valdosta, Georgia, U.S.A. In the non-profit sector, he is a Board Director of the Japan Society of Northern California and the Keizai Society U.S. – Japan Business Forum, and he is an advisor to organizations such as the Chinese Information and Networking Association, the Silicon Valley – China Wireless Technology Association, and the International Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Science and Technology (iFEST). In 2010 he served as a consultant to The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) in regard to their establishment of a worldwide remote mentoring program for entrepreneurs. Dr. Dasher frequently gives speeches and seminars throughout Japan and Asia, as well as in the U.S. Recent appearances include the Nikkei Shimbun Business Innovation Forum, the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, speaking tours of Japan co-sponsored by METI and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, and guest lectures at Chubu University, Kochi University of Technology, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, and the University of Tokyo.

From 1990–93, Dr. Dasher was a board director of two privately-held Japanese companies in Tokyo, at which he developed new business in international licensing of media rights packages and other intellectual properties. From 1986–90, he was Director of the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute advanced field schools in Japan and Korea, which provide full-time language and area training to U.S. and select Commonwealth country diplomats assigned to those countries. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Linguistics from Stanford University and, along with Prof. Elizabeth Closs Traugott, he is co-author of the often-cited book Regularity in Semantic Change (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He received the Bachelor of Music degree in clarinet and orchestra conducting from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he served on the faculty from 1978-85.

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Shigeo Kagami Professor and General Manager Panelist Science Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, University of Tokyo

Kenji Kushida BRIE Fellow Panelist UC Berkeley

William F. Miller Panelist

Allen Miner Founder and General Partner Panelist Sunbridge Partners

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Citizens through Schools: Perspectives on State Making in Early 20th Century Korea

Friday, May 7, 2010 | 12:00 PM -Friday, May 7, 2010 | 1:15 PM

As one of the core features of modern states, universal schooling provided a tool with which to disseminate the skills and knowledge demanded by the new era of industrialization and interstate competition, as well as to impart what it meant to be a citizen. Citizenship education, in fact, or "civics," lay at the heart of the education enterprise in the modern world, reflecting the new circumstances of competing nation-states and hence prioritizing the cultivation of the population’s identification with and allegiance to a particular nation and/or the state. An education system, then, came to be regarded as a strategic necessity if not entirely an idealistic or humanitarian one.

This presentation explores modern Korean state making through an examination of citizen education at the turn of the 20th century. How did the larger purpose of universal schooling and citizenship education evolve as the Korean state underwent so many dramatic shifts in form, function, and even sovereignty? What role did the educational institutions, from the state bureaucracy to the schools themselves, play in spreading the lessons of loyalty, allegiance, and identity? And finally, How did Confucian ethics and statecraft affect the demands of the modern schooling system? Indeed the legacies of pre-20th century Korea extended well into the colonial era (1910-45), including the period of wartime mobilization in the 1930s and 40s, when schooling became central to the intensified, radical assimilation policy of turning Koreans into "imperial subjects."

Professor Hwang conducts research on the modern transformation of Korea, broadly conceived. He is the author of Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea (2004), and co-edited, with Professor Gi-Wook Shin of Stanford, Contentious Kwangju: The May 1980 Uprising in Korea's Past and Present (2003). His latest book, History of Korea: An Episodic Narrative (Palgrave Macmillan) is expected to be published in 2010. He teaches courses on Korean history and society, East Asian and world history at the University of Southern California. He is a graduate of Oberlin College (AB) and Harvard University (Ph.D).

This seminar is supported by a generous grant from Koret Foundation.

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Principal-Agent Problems in Health Care: Evidence from Prescribing Patterns of Private Providers in Vietnam

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The principal-agent problem in health care asserts that providers, being imperfect agents for patients, will act to maximize their profits at the expense of the patients’ interests. This problem applies especially where professional regulations are lacking and incentives exist to directly link providers’ actions to their profits, such as a fee-for-service payment system. The current analysis tests for the existence of the principal-agent problem in the private health market in Vietnam by examining the prescribing patterns of the private providers. We show that

private providers were able to induce demand by prescribing more drugs than public providers for a similar illness and patient profile;
private providers were significantly more likely to prescribe injection drugs to gain trust among the patients; and
patients’ education as a source of information and empowerment has enabled them to mitigate the demand inducement by the providers.

Our hypotheses were supported with evidence from Vietnam National Health Survey 2001 and 2002, the first and, so far, only comprehensive health survey in the country.

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December 1, 2009

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Asia Health Policy Program working paper #12

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China 2.0: The Rise of a Digital Superpower (May 2010)

China 2.0 at Stanford University, May 24-25, 2010

This two-day forum looks at the rise of China as a digital superpower.

May 2010 marks 15 years of China's first connection to the public Internet and 15 years of digital mobile communications. Home to 400 million online and 750 million mobile consumers, China is giving birth to innovative start-ups and established multi-billion dollar enterprises in social networking, games, video, music and e-commerce.

Companies thriving in China will increasingly shape the global digital economy, either by their sheer scale at home or through investments and mergers and acquisitions in the United States and other developed economies.

Join this invitation-only forum to meet with industry leaders from China and overseas to assess the likely future shape and implications of China's rise for consumers, industry players, investors, researchers and policy makers.

Conference Video Overviews

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China 2.0 Introduction	Video: Tencent, Taobao and Baidu	Enabling China's Mobile Market	Chinese Digital Music Scene
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TV & Online Video	e-Commerce	Online Games

	MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
8:30 - 9:00	Registration and Light Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15	Session 1--Welcome Remarks and Introductory Presentation
	Marguerite Gong Hancock, Forum Co-Chair/Associate Director, SPRIE, Stanford University
	Duncan Clark, Forum Co-Chair/Chairman, BDA China; Visiting Scholar, SPRIE, Stanford University
9:15 - 10:00	Session 2--Case Studies of China 2.0 Leaders: Tencent, Taobao & Baidu
	Duncan Clark & Liu Ning, BDA China Presentation
	Moderator: Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes
10:00 - 10:45	Special Session--Reporting China 2.0
	Loretta Chao, Reporter, Beijing Bureau, The Wall Street Journal
	Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes
	Moderator: Daniel Sneider, Associate Director for Research, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
11:00 - 12:15	Session 3--Enabling China 2.0: Infrastructure, Devices and Access
	Håkan Eriksson, CTO, Ericsson presentation
	Stanley Chia, Senior Technology Consultant, Vodafone Group R&D
	Moderator: Duncan Clark, Forum Co-Chair/Chairman, BDA China; Visiting Scholar, SPRIE, Stanford University
12.15 - 1.15	Lunch
1.15 - 2.15	Session 4--Digital Music in China
	Gary Chen, CEO, Top100.cn presentation
	Eric Priest, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon presentation
	Moderator: Loretta Chao, Reporter, Beijing Bureau, The Wall Street Journal
2.15 - 3.45	Session 5--China's Future TV Landscape
	Graham Kill, CEO, Irdeto presentation
	Caroline Pan, Director-China Strategy Office, Intel presentation
	David Strehlow, Director of Marketing, Media Solutions, Huawei
	Moderator: Andrew Lih, Associate Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
3.45 - 4.00	Break
4.00 - 5.30	Session 6--e-Commerce in China
	James Jianzhang Liang, Co-Founder and Chairman, Ctrip
	Alan Tien, General Manager, PayPal Beibao China
	Fritz Demopoulos, CEO, Qunar.com
	Moderator: Mei Fong, Wall Street Journal Correspondent & Visiting Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism
5.30 - 6.30	Networking Reception
	TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2010
8:30 - 9:00	Registration and Light Breakfast
9.00 - 10.30	Session 7--Online & Mobile Games
	Jason Wang, Partner, Cypress River Advisors, LLC
	Ben Sternberg, Executive Director, Raine Group
	Lisa Cosmas Hanson, Managing Partner & Founder, Niko Partners
	Liu Ning, Principal Analyst - New Media, BDA China
	Moderator: Loretta Chao, Reporter, Beijing Bureau, The Wall Street Journal
10.45 - 12.15	Session 8--Financing China 2.0: VC & IPO Outlook
	York Chen, Founding Managing Partner, iDTechVentures presentation
	Olivier Glauser, Managing Director, Steamboat Ventures presentation
	Richard Hsu, Managing Director, Intel Capital China presentation
	David Lam, Managing Director, WI Harper Group presentation
	Moderator: Martin Haemmig, Senior Advisor on Venture Capital, Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
12.15 - 1.15	Lunch
1.15-2:45	Session 9--How Can Global Firms Thrive In & With China
	Alan Tien, General Manager, PayPal Bei Bao China
	Graham Kill, CEO, Irdeto
	Carter Agar, Former VP, GM, Walt Disney Internet Group (China), VP, Altius Education
	Jason Wang, Partner, Cypress River Advisors, LLC
	Moderator: Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes
3:00 - 4:30	Session 10--China 2.0 Firms: The Talent Dimension
	Mark Baldwin, CEO, Oxus and Founder, Zhaopin.com
	Kelly Sang, former General Manager, Alibaba.com Americas
	David Strehlow, Director of Marketing, Media Solutions, Huawei
	Moderator: Kyung H. Yoon, CEO, Talent Age Associates LLC
4:30 - 4:45	Wrap-up

Audience

Media & tech executives, entrepreneurs, academics and researchers, venture capitalists/private equity investors, policymakers.

Format

Presentations by the on-the-ground pioneers of China 2.0
Roundtable discussions on key issues and emerging trends
Premiere of "vox pop" video interviews of Chinese Internet users filmed in Beijing, Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xiamen and Xi'an
Conference highlights to be available online (subject to speaker approval)
Interactive event, including a mobile application custom-made for participants

Participation and Pricing

Participation is by invitation-only. For more information, please contact SPRIE by email at sprie-stanford@stanford.edu.

The USD $50 fee covers conference sessions and materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments. A limited number of free spaces are available for current Stanford faculty, students and staff.

Agenda (subject to change)

Map and parking:

The conference is being held in the Bechtel Conference Center, located at 616 Serra Street on the first floor of Encina Hall. Free event parking is available at the Galvez Field Event Parking Lot, located at Galvez and Campus Drive East. It is less than .5 mile from the parking lot to the event. If you park at a meter, be aware that parking is $1.50/hour and is monitored from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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