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Anju Patwardhan

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Anju Patwardhan is a Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Stanford. Her research is focused on the use of technology and innovation to support financial inclusion, especially small business lending.

She is also a Venture Partner with CreditEase Fintech Fund from China (fund of c.USD 1 billion). She is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Council on Blockchain and on the WEF steering committees for “Internet for All” and “Disruptive Innovation in Financial Services”. 

She has been appointed as a FinTech Industry Expert with UC Berkeley (SCET) and an Innovation Fellow with the NUS.  She serves on the advisory board of Government of Estonia’s e-residency program

She was in banking until July 2016 and has over 25 years of experience with Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) in global leadership roles across Asia, Africa and Middle East.  She was a member of SCB’s global leadership team, global risk management group and global technology & operations management group. She was also a Director on various banking subsidiaries and non-profits boards.

She is an alumnus of the IIT Delhi and IIM Bangalore, and holds further professional qualifications is board directorship and art appreciation.

She moved from Singapore to the Bay Area in August 2016 with her family. 

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Lei Guo

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Dr. GUO Lei is an associate professor at School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Peking University where she is responsible for the innovative and entrepreneurial education and research.  She is the Deputy Dean of School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Deputy Director of Office of Science and Technology Development at Peking University.

Dr. GUO Lei leads the entrepreneurial and innovative education programs and incubation programs, which provides PKU students, professors and alumni courses, mentorship, seed funding, incubation space and network connections to early stage investors.  She has successfully set up Entrepreneurial Talent Development Program for the youth in 2012, both in campus and off campus.  And she always keeps scaling up the program over China.  Till now, more than 4,000 young entrepreneurs take part in the program on-line and off-line, and over 30 star-ups come out from the program.  She set up a fund which aims to support the entrepreneurial education activities and help the students to commercialization their ideas in 2014 at PKU.  She is working on China Entrepreneurship MOOC Platform by the support of Shandong Province.  She and her colleagues initiated the first Train the Trainer Program in entrepreneurship courses at PKU in 2016, which teaches the teachers all over the nation how to teach and mentor their students to know what is entrepreneurship and how to be an entrepreneur.

Dr. GUO Lei is the coordinator scholar for Global Innovation Index Program of World Intellectual Property Organization at Peking University.  She is the co-founder of China Innovation Index Research Center at SIE, PKU, which aims to support local governments to build the innovation-driven economic growth system and to evaluate the innovation efficiency.  She is the co-champion of China Cohort of MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program from 2015 to 2017.  The team is made up of different stakeholders who come from university, government, risk capital, corporate and entrepreneur.  The goal is to give the scientific and professional consultant to Hebei Province on how to build an innovative national agriculture park.  She has published over 20 papers in The Global Innovation Index 2015, The Development of Research and Management (in Chinese), Peking University Education Review (in Chinese), Bulletin of National Natural Science Foundation of China (in Chinese), Academic Degree and Graduate Education (in Chinese) and Guangming Daily (in Chinese).

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Comparative education specialist named incoming Koret Fellow

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Rennie J. Moon has been selected as the 2016-17 Koret Fellow in the Korea Program at Stanford’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC). She will join the center next January to study diversity in higher education and teach a student course.

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Moon is an associate professor at the Underwood International College at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Her research explores the interrelationships among globalization, migration and citizenship, and internationalization of higher education.

Moon, a graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, Ph.D. ‘09, has collaborated with Stanford professor Gi-Wook Shin on a multiyear research project that examines diversity in higher education in East Asia. She co-edited the book Internationalizing Higher Education in Korea: Challenges and Opportunities in Comparative Perspective published earlier this year.

Stanford professor Francisco O. Ramirez, an expert on international comparative education and sociology of education, recognized her scholarly contributions to the field.

“Moon is a creative contributor to the ‘world society perspective’ in the social sciences,” said Ramirez, noting that Moon's work has been published in leading journals of international comparative education, Comparative Education Review and Comparative Education.

Supported by the Koret Foundation, the Koret Fellowship brings professionals to Stanford to conduct research on contemporary Korean affairs. In 2015, the fellowship expanded its focus to include social, cultural and educational issues in North and South Korea, and aims to identify emerging scholars working on those areas.

During her fellowship, Moon will also give public talks and be a lead organizer of the Koret Workshop, an international conference held annually at Stanford.

“As an alum, I’m very pleased and excited to spend my sabbatical year at Stanford,” Moon said. “Over the last few years, I’ve been collaborating on various research projects with Professor Shin and other colleagues at APARC. I’m looking forward to a productive fellowship during which I hope to bring these evolving projects to fruition.”

Moon holds a doctorate and master’s degree in international comparative education from Stanford and a bachelor’s degree in French from Wellesley College.

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Japan transforming its innovation culture by changing social norms, Stanford scholar finds

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Stanford researcher Kenji Kushida says Japanese social norms are shifting from being highly unfavorable to a tech startup culture toward one much more supportive of it.

Japanese corporations are evolving and adopting a “startup culture” to boost their business creativity and country’s economic prospects, a Stanford expert says.

“We can see that over the past 15 years or so, changes to the overall Japanese political economic context as it undergoes gradual but substantive reform over the past couple decades have created a far more vibrant startup ecosystem in Japan than most people – both inside and outside Japan – realize,” said research associate Kenji Kushida of Stanford’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

Kushida wrote in a new research paper that, over the past decade, Japan has undertaken significant reforms that are now bearing fruit – reforms ranging from monetary and fiscal policy designed to encourage private investment to a range of regulations surrounding corporate law, university organization, labor mobility and financial market reforms.

As a result – and combined with changes and challenges facing Japan’s large company sector – the country’s people are embracing a “vibrant startup ecosystem,” Kushida said. He is optimistic that such a transformation can occur in a country where stability and corporate loyalty – not necessarily innovation or creativity – have long been dominant social and business values.

Now, large Japanese firms are adjusting to performance crises and uncertain futures. As a result, the Japanese people are learning that with economic opportunity – the kind that startups promise – there also comes the risk of failure.

“A generational shift is accompanying social normative changes that are becoming more supportive of entrepreneurship and high-growth startups. Entrepreneurs and high-growth startups are celebrated in the popular media and in major events more than ever before,” Kushida wrote.

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The influence of California’s Silicon Valley is a factor. For instance, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last year spoke at Stanford about how his country is learning the lessons of Silicon Valley and trying to build networks into the region. So Japan is likely to see an increase in the quality and quantity of high-growth startups, according to Kushida.

He said, “The current relationship between Japan and Silicon Valley is one in which Japanese firms, ranging from large firms to startups, are looking for ways to actively harness Silicon Valley. Large firms are trying by becoming investors in Silicon Valley venture capital firms, setting up their own venture capital arms, setting up branches in the valley, and trying to engage in ‘open’ innovation by entering into tie-ups and attempting to acquire select valley startups.”

A small but growing number of Japanese entrepreneurs visited Silicon Valley either to start their own companies or to grow firms that were started in Japan, Kushida said.

Still, Japan’s tech sector is a long way from what one finds in Silicon Valley, where many of the world’s most “disruptive” and game-changing firms are located. He wrote, “When compared to Silicon Valley, the ecosystem is still small in scale, but so is virtually every other startup ecosystem.”

A growing flow of Japanese entrepreneurs and CEOs is coming to Silicon Valley to get more of a sense of how things work, Kushida said, adding, “That is what we are helping through research at the StanfordSilicon Valley-New Japan Project as part of the Japan Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.”

Kushida said that if current estimates hold, Japan should expect successful startups, all supported by a “stronger ecosystem of startup-related players, combined with more open large firms.”

These large firms, he said, will spin off entrepreneurs who leave to launch other new companies, which will accelerate the startup cycle in Japan.

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Key challenges facing Japan’s startup culture, Kushida said, are the need for more entrepreneurial role models and the “overall lack of experience in creating followers.” On the latter, he explained that while Japan has excelled at producing tech products for use in its own markets, it would benefit by getting other firms and parts of the world to adopt its products and services.

“Think of the negotiations that Apple undertook with telecom carriers around the world to roll out the iPhone worldwide, or how Google is continually negotiating with governments such as those in the European Union to allow its services to be adopted broadly,” he said.

Other Stanford scholars, such as Takeo Hoshi, have recently written about the reasons Japan was not able to pull out of a long recession that resulted in virtually no growth in the 1990s. One problem, as Hoshi described it, was that the Japanese government was unable to introduce much-needed “structural reforms” to overhaul its economic structures to increase business competition – such as deregulation to cut operating costs for firms, a key attraction for startup-minded entrepreneurs.

Japan’s “lost decade” originally referred to the 1990s, though the country has still not regained the economic power it enjoyed in the 1970s and 1980s. Some say Japan has actually experienced two lost decades if the 2000s are counted as well.

Kushida’s paper, “Japan’s Startup Ecosystem: From Brave New World to Part of Syncretic New Japan,” was published in the Asia Research Policy journal.

Clifton Parker is a writer for the Stanford News Service.

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Yusuke Asakura

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Yusuke Asakura is a Visiting Scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.  He is also co-founder of Tokyo Founders Fund, an angel network composed of eight entrepreneurs, which invests in pre-seed and seed stage startup companies globally.

Prior to coming to the US, Asakaura was the CEO of mixi, a public company which runs the largest Social Networking Service in Japan.  At mixi, he led turnaround strategy by diversification of its business and increased its market cap from $200M to $4B in one year.

Prior to mixi, he was the founder and CEO of mobile tech startup, Naked Technology.  The company was acquired by mixi in 2011.

Asakura earned his bachelors degree in Law from the University of Tokyo in 2007.

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Zero to One and One to Ten: The art of starting a startup and scaling

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Akiko Naka was born on October 12th 1984 in Japan. Akiko serves as a founder and chief executive officer at Wantedly, Inc., the professional social networking service she started in her apartment. Following its official launch in February 2012, Wantedly grew to 1 million monthly active users and 15,000 corporates, which has become the leading professional social networking service in Tokyo. She believes that social products enable people to change their life. Prior to Wantedly, she was a growth coordinator at Facebook Japan, contributing in the marketing and product development of Facebook in Japan. Before joining Facebook, she worked at Goldman Sachs in equity sales. She graduated from Kyoto University in 2008 with a B.A. in Economics.

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4:15pm: Doors open
4:30pm-5:30pm: Talk and Discussion
5:30pm-6:00pm: Networking

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For more information about the Silicon Valley-New Japan Project please visit: http://www.stanford-svnj.org/
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Managing Open Innovation: Lessons from Harnessing Silicon Valley

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For firms around the world, the question of how to harness Silicon Valley's innovation engine is increasingly important. The answers are not obvious, since the entrepreneurial dynamism and disruptive innovations and business models of Silicon Valley are often at odds with large firms' internal dynamics and processes. This is especially the case for firms that grew up outside Silicon Valley and began as outsiders here.

This panel brings together expertise from multiple vantages-- SAP from Germany, which has a major presence in Silicon Valley, World Innovation Lab (WiL) which works with large Japanese companies in a variety of ways, and Core Venture Group, a boutique San Francisco venture capital firm co-founded by a Japanese and our panelist with extensive experience working with Japanese firms.

Please join us to get both broad perspectives and specific insights into how large outside firms can harness Silicon Valley.

PANELISTS:

Joanna Drake Earl, General Partner, Core Ventures Group

Joanna has been creating next-generation digital experiences at the intersection of media and technology for over 20 years. Currently Joanna is a General Partner at Core Ventures Group, a seed stage technology start-up fund, investing in serial entrepreneurs who are solving big problems with advanced technologies. Until December 2012, Joanna served as Chief Operating Officer for DeNA West. She oversaw operations outside of Asia for this $5B Japanese public mobile content company, working closely with the Founder and Board of Directors on international expansion and global operations.

After joining Vice President Gore and Joel Hyatt to co-found Current TV in 2001, Joanna spent 11 years with the company including stints as President of New Media, pioneering the world's first social media platform, as well as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, overseeing Sales, Marketing, Distribution, Technology, and International Operations. Earlier Joanna held executive positions at several leading technology and media start-ups, including MOXI and ReacTV. She started her career at Booz Allen & Hamilton in the Media, Entertainment and Technology consulting practice, working closely with the world's leading entertainment conglomerates and the largest Silicon Valley technology companies.

Gen Isayama, Co-Founder and CEO, World Innovation Lab

Gen is the CEO and Co-Founder of WiL, LLC (World Innovation Lab), an organization dedicated to accelerating and promoting open innovation in large corporations across Japan. Funded by enterprises from various industries, WiL provides investment capital and strategic guidance to Japanese startups entering the global market as well as overseas ventures entering the Japanese market. In addition, WiL incubates new businesses by leveraging unused IP and resources in large corporations, facilitating innovation and entrepreneurship. Born and raised in Tokyo, Gen joined IBJ (now Mizuho Financial Group) after graduating Tokyo University and moved to Silicon Valley in 2001 to attend Stanford Business School. After graduation, Gen joined DCM Ventures, one of the top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital firms, and worked as a partner until the summer of 2013.

Kenji Kushida, Research Associate, Stanford University

Kenji E. Kushida is a Japan Program Research Associate at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and an affiliated researcher at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. Kushida’s research interests are in the fields of comparative politics, political economy, and information technology. He has four streams of academic research and publication: political economy issues surrounding information technology such as Cloud Computing; institutional and governance structures of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster; political strategies of foreign multinational corporations in Japan; and Japan’s political economic transformation since the 1990s. Kushida has written two general audience books in Japanese, entitled Biculturalism and the Japanese: Beyond English Linguistic Capabilities (Chuko Shinsho, 2006) and International Schools, an Introduction (Fusosha, 2008). Kushida holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His received his MA in East Asian studies and BAs in economics and East Asian studies, all from Stanford University.

David Swanson, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, SAP SuccessFactors

David Swanson has over 25 years of human resources management experience. He is currently the executive vice president of human resources for SAP SuccessFactors partnering with the company’s sales organization to showcase how SAP is using SAP HR. Most recently he was the CHRO for North America and prior to that the global head of HR for SAP’s products and innovation organization where he delivered the people strategy to drive business performance. In addition he has held executive human resources roles at a number of technology companies supporting global development, marketing, sales and service organizations. 

Swanson is a keynote speaker and panelist on the Future of HR focusing on how HR can make an impact in the business through analytics and big data not just activity reporting. He is actively involved in the human resources community as a board member of the Bay Area Human Resources Executive Council (BAHREC), on the innovation advisory board of HULT the global business school, an adjunct lecturer with the University of California, Santa Cruz Extension, and a regular presenter and facilitator with the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) and the Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA).

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4:15pm: Doors open
4:30pm-5:30pm: Panel Discussion
5:30pm-6:00pm: Networking

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For more information about the Silicon Valley-New Japan Project please visit: http://www.stanford-svnj.org/

 

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Overcoming Economic Malaise: Strategic, Educational and Social Innovation for South Korea

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South Korea has relied on its export-oriented development model to become an economic powerhouse, but has now reached the limits of this model. Indeed, Korea’s phenomenal growth has incubated the seeds of its own destruction. Learning from the Korean developmental experience, China has adopted key elements of the Korean development model and has become a potent competitor in electronics and the heavy industries. Meanwhile, the organizational and institutional legacies of late industrialization have constrained Korean efforts to move into technology entrepreneurship and the service sector. These strategic challenges are compounded by a demographic bomb, as social development has led to collapsing birthrates in Korea, much like other developed countries in Europe and Asia. Within the next few years, the Korean workforce will start diminishing in size and aging rapidly, straining the country’s resources and curtailing its growth. In this seminar, Joon Nak Choi, 2015-16 Koret Fellow at Stanford's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Reserach Center, will discuss innovations in business strategy, educational policy and social structure that are directly relevant to these problems, and that would alleviate or perhaps even reverse Korea’s economic malaise.

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A Stanford graduate and sociologist by training, Choi is an assistant professor of management at the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research and teaching areas include economic development, social networks, organizational theory, and global and transnational sociology, within the Korean context. He coauthored Global Talent: Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea (Stanford University Press, 2015).

This public event is made possible through the generous support of the Koret Foundation.

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Joon Nak Choi is the 2015-2016 Koret Fellow in the Korea Program at Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC). A sociologist by training, Choi is an assistant professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research and teaching areas include economic development, social networks, organizational theory, and global and transnational sociology, within the Korean context.

Choi, a Stanford graduate, has worked jointly with professor Gi-Wook Shin to analyze the transnational bridges linking Asia and the United States. The research project explores how economic development links to foreign skilled workers and diaspora communities.

Most recently, Choi coauthored Global Talent: Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea with Shin, who is also the director of the Korea Program. From 2010-11, Choi developed the manuscript while he was a William Perry postdoctoral fellow at Shorenstein APARC.

During his fellowship, Choi will study the challenges of diversity in South Korea and teach a class for Stanford students. Choi’s research will buttress efforts to understand the shifting social and economic patterns in Korea, a now democratic nation seeking to join the ranks of the world’s most advanced countries.
 
Supported by the Koret Foundation, the Koret Fellowship brings leading professionals to Stanford to conduct research on contemporary Korean affairs with the broad aim of strengthening ties between the United States and Korea. The fellowship has expanded its focus to include social, cultural and educational issues in Korea, and aims to identify young promising scholars working on these areas.

 

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Research Presentations (session 4 of 5) - Fukuda, Huang, Muramatsu and Yang

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In this session of the Corporate Affiliates Research Presentations, the following will be presented:

Wataru Fukuda, Shizuoka Prefectural Government, "Software Solutions of Tourism Promotion"

In his research, Fukuda investigates the possibilities of expanding the inbound tourism market in Japan, especially in the Shizuoka prefecture, a local area of Japan.  He provides an overview of the online travel industry and how they are expanding their market with new technologies and innovations.  After reviewing how software services for international travelers is currently being used in Japan, he focuses on specific applications with the highest potential to make Shizuoka more accessible and attractive for international travelers.  Additionally, he reviews regulations and obstacles that could prevent these new technologies and innovations from being implemented.  As a result, Fukuda suggests that the suppliers of local tourism provide their services with a holistic utilization of the applications.

 

Catherine Huang, Beijing Shanghe Shiji Investment Company, "How the U.S. Capital Market Helps Enterprises Grow From the Infant State to Mature Businesses"

China is slowing down its pace for development, facing the so-called “middle income trap”.  While the attention to the macroeconomic picture is necessary, it is not sufficient.  Extraordinary monetary policies buy time, but they do not solve the fundamental problem.  The focus needs to be on the structural reforms – the microeconomic entities, to which the capital market acts like a lifeline, will drive future growth.  The productivity, competition and innovation in all sectors – all of which are largely fueled by an efficient, healthy and accessible capital market – ensure a productive supply-side growth.  In her research, Huang explores the culture, participants and regulatory system of the U.S. capital market and tries to figure out what China’s capital market development can learn from this system.

 

Yuichiro Muramatsu, Mitsubishi Electric, "Manufacturing Industry with Big Data Analysis on IoT"

The Internet of Things (IoT) is major technology that connects devices and cloud service.  Cloud service computes device data and returns meaningful results for abnormal detection, performance improvement and prediction.  One key component of IoT is big data analysis.  Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s 2015 Whitepaper states that innovation in the manufacturing industry by using IoT and big data analysis is about to launch, but few cases exist in Japan.  Innovative companies like Netflix, Uber and AirBnB are data driven companies and the manufacturing industry is also expected to have smart factories with big data analysis.  In his research, Muramatsu investigates the use of big data analysis on IoT and identifies useful cases of business efficiency and the methodology that supports big data analysis.

 

Fred Yang, MissionCare, "Private Hospitals in Taiwan and the Implications"

In most East Asian countries, including Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, private hospitals are the majority in the market.  In China, even though private hospitals have been in fast growth for the past 10 years, their size remains small and the market is still dominated by large public hospitals.  In the most recent move of healthcare reform in China, the government emphasized and encouraged the entry of private-non-profit hospitals into the market. 

In the National Health Insurance Administration’s (NHIA) Open Information System, a set of quality indicators is computed based on hospitals’ reimbursement data.  A committee comprised of representatives from government, academia and hospitals select these indicators and the data is published to the general public on a quarterly basis. 

By using statistical tools such as descriptive analysis, univariate analysis, and multivariable analysis, Yang focused on the comparison of hospital performance by ownership in Taiwan.  The results revealed limited differences among three types of hospitals by ownership, which is consistent with findings of most studies.  Based on his findings, Yang provides policy implications to the market and policy makers that include 1) hospital ownership might not be a key determinant of a hospital’s quality and 2) the real challenge to the government may be creating an environment where hospitals are committee to improve the quality of care.

 

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Wataru Fukuda is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2014-15 and 2015-16.  He has worked for the Shizuoka Prefectural Government in Japan for over 10 years, representing Shizuoka, the "home of Mt. Fuji".  He has experience in both international and domestic marketing of tourism.  During his fellowship at Shorenstein APARC, his research will focus on inbound tourism, destination marketing and promotion.

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Huang (Catherine) Huang is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16. Huang is the Founder and Managing Director of Beijing Shanghe Shiji Investment Co. Ltd. and has over 13 years of experience in private equity investment, equity/fund portfolio management and investment banking business.  Previously, she worked as Vice President at JP Morgan Securities in HK, Division Chief of equity investment at China Reinsurance Group and Portfolio Manager at CITIC Fund.  Huang received her EMBA degree from Peking University, Master of Economics from Tsinghua University and Bachelors of Finance & Literature from Xiamen University in China.

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Yuichiro Muramatsu is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  He started his career as a software engineer for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.  Muramatsu has been engaged in system engineering designing and consulting tendency analysis for many companies, as well as bridge system engineering that brings and localizes the off-shore software product to Japan and aboard.  Muramatsu graduated from Chiba University with a B.S. in electric engineering.

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Hung-Jen (Fred) Yang is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-17.  Dr. Yang is a physician executive and is currently Chairman of MissionCare Inc., and President of Healthcare Corporation of Asia, a company that owns and operates four community hospitals and seven long-term care facilities in northern Taiwan.  After graduating from National Taiwan University Medical School with an MD degree in 1994, Yang pursued a career in healthcare management.  He earned a Master of Public Health (PH) degree from Harvard in 1995 and an MBA from the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, CA in 1997.  Before going back to Taiwan in 1998, he worked as a financial analyst for Tenet Healthcare System, the second largest hospital chain in the U.S. Since 1998, Yang has been actively serving the MissionCare Group in many capacities, such as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operation Officer and Chief Executive Officer.   Over the past ten years. Yang has made significant contributions not only to his company but also to the healthcare industry in Taiwan.  Under his leadership, MissionCare became Taiwan's first JCI accredited hospital, hence helping to elevate Taiwan's healthcare quality to a higher level.  In addition to hospital management, Yang also excels at health economics, financial engineering and strategic management.  In 2010, he received  an Ernst & Young Taiwan Entrepreneur Award for conducting the successful listing of his company on the Taipei OTC, making it the only hospital group listed in Taiwan.

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Research Presentations (session 3 of 5) - Ma, Ma and Washizaki

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In this session of the Corporate Affiliates Research Presentations, the following will be presented:

An Ma, PetroChina, "How CNPC can learn from the Silicon Valley Innovation Model"

The Silicon Valley forms a series of efficient innovation models, gives birth to a large number of world class high-tech companies, and greatly influences science and technology innovation for the U.S. and the world.  The policy mechanism, venture capital investment, multicultural society, talent aggregation, supporting services and government backing are all factors in the development of the Silicon Valley.  In his research, Ma investigated the development process of the Silicon Valley and analyzed two energy-related companies — Tesla and The First Solar — to understand the Silicon Valley innovation model.  Based on his analysis of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) business development and innovation task, Ma offers some suggestions on how CNPC can learn from the Silicon Valley innovation model in science and technology development.

 

Huaxiang Ma, Peking University, "Entrepreneurship Education in the Era of Globalization"

With entrepreneurship becoming a key driver of today’s economy, entrepreneurship education around the world has developed quickly in the past few decades.  China, as a new rising power, also pays more attention to the development of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education.  Ma’s research goes through the history of entrepreneurship education in both the U.S. and China and analyzes various reasons behind the prosperity.  Additionally, Ma discusses the pioneers of U.S. universities in this field such as Babson, Harvard and Stanford, conducting a comparative study between the U.S. and China.  In his research, he tries to uncover existing problems and suggests possible solutions for the development of entrepreneurship education in China focusing on how Peking University can support his ideas. 

 

Ryo Washizaki, Japan Patent Office, "How to Increase the Probability of Innovation Through Comparison of the US and Japan While Paying Attention to Start-up Companies"

Every year, large Japanese firms receive high rankings of the international application number and patented number of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).  Patents have a relationship with its business, but activities of start-up companies are not easy to see in such kind of rankings.  On the other hand, the World Economic Forum recognizes some start-up companies as “Technology Pioneers”, and the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, Japan has awarded Japanese start-up companies “Japan Venture Awards”.  Although those winning companies would have better possibility for success in business, their innovation ecosystem is different.  In his research, Washizaki illustrates the comparison of those Japanese and U.S. start-up companies’ growth, especially from a viewpoint of patents.

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An Ma is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.

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Huaxiang Ma is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.

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Ryo Washizaki

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Ryo Washizaki is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he served as Patent Examiner at the Japan Patent Office, where he was in charge of civil engineering technology.

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