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Abstract

Latin America has gone through a major transformation in the past two decades. According to the United Nations, with the discovery of new oil and mineral deposits and increases in energy exports, manufacturing, and tourism, Latin America's economic growth and development will increase, and the region's global influence will become greater and greater.

In The Shared Society, Alejandro Toledo, whose tenure as president of Peru helped spur the country's economic renaissance, develops a plan for a future Latin America in which not only is its population much better off economically than today but the vast 40 percent of its poor and marginalized are incorporated into a rising middle class, democratic institutions work more effectively, and the extraordinary ecosystem of Latin America is preserved.

Speaker Bio:

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Alejandro Toledo served as the President of Peru from 2001 to 2006 and has been honored by the U.S. Senate for his policies during that tenure. He has held positions at the World Bank and the United Nations and was a Visiting Scholar in International Affairs at Harvard University as well as at Johns Hopkins University and a Senior Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University and the Brookings Institution. Toledo founded and continues to serve as the President of the Global Center for Development and Democracy in Washington, DC. 

This event is sponsored by CDDRL, FSI, the Center for Latin American Studies and Redwood Press.

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Convened by Professor Joel Beinin and Professor Robert Crews, this one-day conference will explore the global history of the Middle East and North Africa. The conference is chronologically delimited by two New York-centered financial panics that had substantial consequences for the Middle East and North Africa. While the region has long been engaged in global circuits of commerce, culture, and migration, this choice of chronological frame highlights the renewed salience of political economy in several academic disciplines.

Conference Program

8:45 -9:00 Welcoming Remarks

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In an effort to infuse Asian studies in the social studies and literature curricula, the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), in cooperation with the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA), is offering a professional development opportunity at Stanford University.

This all day workshop will focus on teaching about ancient China and the Silk Road. Participants will hear from top China scholars, engage in China related curriculum, and network with other local teachers.  This is the second seminar in a four part series.

In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented:

Yun Bae Lim, Samsung Life Insurance, “Demographic Changes in Korea:  How to Cut Through the High Seas”

Particularly in industrialized countries, people are living longer, while birth rates are declining.  Today, the average Korean lives longer than the average citizen in developed nations (as represented by the members of the OECD).  This is a significant milestone for a country that back in the 1960’s had a life expectancy of 52 years, which was amongst the lowest in the world. 

In his research presentation, Lim will focus on these demographic changes and the effects such as the decrease in the producing population, the increase in the total dependency rate and the shrinking potential growth rate.  Lim will offer some policy-related solutions to address this critical issue.

Jong Soo Paek, Samsung Electronics, “Open Innovation in the Electronics Industry”

Many companies in the electronics industry are struggling to survive because of lack of demand, low profit, etc.  Companies are also failing to make new innovative business while existing businesses are showing their limitation in terms of growth potential.  As a result, customers are seeing the electronics industry is not innovative. 

To overcome this hurdle, the open innovation model has become more popular replacing the closed innovation model in the past.  The open innovation model is a kind of process or strategy, in which companies can increase new ideas and technologies flowing into their innovation funnel by searching external sources and integrating them with internal ideas and resources.

Even though the open innovation model is really powerful, in reality, for large companies with Asian legacy and culture, it is not an easy task to manage.  There are many issues that undermine the success rate and effectiveness of open innovation such as closed-minds, the NIH syndrome, internal resistance, lack of capabilities necessary and so on.  Through his research presentation, Paek will discuss some solutions that are suitable for large, Asian companies like Samsung Electronics.