Science and Technology

Korean Innovation Strategies for Regional Economic Development

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | 12:00 PM -Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | 1:15 PM

About the talk:

Despite a short history of economic development, Korea has produced a number of leading products; the Korean economy's success is based on the technological and innovative capabilities it has accumulated over several decades.

However, a major structural weakness is the concentration of its economic power in the capital city of Seoul and its outskirts, where most industrial firms are located. In addition, eastern Korea is more industrialized than the west. This technological and innovative imbalance will lead to a gloomy outlook for the Korean economy.

Having recognized this problem, over the past decade the central and regional governments have been making great efforts to enhance regional economic and innovative potential development. Daeduck Science Town, in the center of the Korean peninsula, along with a number of technoparks are evidence of these development strategies.

Dr. Chung will present and discuss the history and characteristics of Korean regional innovation strategies for this seminar.

About the speaker:

Dr. Chung received the Ph.D from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He worked at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI) in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a senior researcher at the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI), under Korea's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

In 2004, on the basis of his research work, Dr. Chung was selected as the youngest lifetime fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) (Korea's equivalent of the National Academy of Sciences). Since March 1, 2008, he has worked as Director of KAST's Policy Research Center.

In 2008 he established the William F. Miller School of MOT (Management of Technology) at Seoul's Konkuk University. Dr. Chung currently serves as Dean of the Miller MOT School.

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Sunyang Chung Dean Speaker Miller School of MOT, Konkuk University

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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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Almost Everything You Wanted to Know About the B2 Bomber But Were Afraid to Ask

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | 12:00 PM -Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | 1:30 PM

Representing the United States Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel John Vitacca is a national defense fellow for 2009-2010 at CISAC.

John holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing from Texas A&M University, a Master of Business Administration degree in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Master of Arts degree in Military Operational Art and Science from Air Command and Staff College, Air University, Alabama. He is a command pilot with over 3,400 flight hours in the B-2 and B-52, qualified as both an instructor and evaluator pilot. Prior to coming to CISAC, John served in various assignments including a tour at the Pentagon as the Chief of the Global Persistent Attack Branch and the B-2/Next Generation Bomber subject matter expert. Most recently, he was the Commander of the 393d Bomb Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base, one of only two operational B-2 stealth bomber squadrons in the USAF. His research at CISAC will focus on nuclear weapons policy issues.

CISAC Conference Room

John Vitacca

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Visiting Scholar

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Representing the United States Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel John Vitacca is a national defense fellow for 2009-2010 at CISAC.

Colonel (Select) John Vitacca CISAC Visiting Scholar Speaker

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A Young Man from 'ultima Thule' Visits Jefferson: Alexander von Humboldt in Philadelphia and Washington

Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa

Preventing Genocide: Practical Steps Toward Early Detection and Effective Action

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 | 12:00 PM -Wednesday, November 4, 2009 | 1:30 PM

David Hamburg is president emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, where he served as the Corporation's eleventh president from 1982 to 1997. Under his leadership the work of the Corporation focused on education and healthy development of children and youth, human resources in developing countries and international security issues. He established a number of task forces on education and preventing conflict which produced seminal research and policy analysis and which will continue to influence the work in these fields in the future.

A medical doctor, Hamburg had a long history of leadership in the research, medical and psychiatric fields before his transition from a trustee of Carnegie to its president. He was chief, adult psychiatry branch, National Institutes of Health, from 1958 to 1961; professor and chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University from 1961 to 1972; Reed-Hodgson Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University from 1972 to 1976; president of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1975-1980; and director of the division of health policy research and education and John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University, 1980-1983. He served as president and then chairman of the board (1984-1986) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Hamburg was a member of the United States Defense Policy Board with Secretary of Defense William Perry and cochair with former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. He is a member of President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology and a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School's department of social medicine. He was the founder of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government.

Hamburg received both his A.B. and M.D. degrees from Indiana University. He has received numerous honorary degrees during his career as well as the American Psychiatric Association's Distinguished Service Award in 1991, the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House in 1996, the International Peace Academy's 25th Anniversary Special Award in 1996, the Achievement in Children and Public Policy Award from the Society for Research in Child Development in 1997, and the National Academy of Sciences' Public Welfare Medal in 1998.

CISAC Conference Room

David Hamburg President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York Speaker

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Is 'Proliferation-Proof Technology' an Oxymoron?

Thursday, January 7, 2010 | 3:30 PM -Thursday, January 7, 2010 | 5:00 PM

I will provide an overview of current ideas for devising a nuclear fuel cycle that minimizes proliferation risks, ranging from alternatives to the current method of spent fuel reprocessing to novel reactor designs. While the ultimate conclusion should not be a surprise - 'proliferation-proof technology' in indeed an (double) oxymoron - it is nevertheless important to recognize the role that probabilistic risk assessment can and should play in assessing the relative merits of proposed technologies.

Dr. Robert Rosner is a visiting professor at CISAC for 2009-2010. He is the William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Rosner recently stepped down as Director of Argonne National Laboratory, where he had also served as Chief Scientist.

Professor Rosner's research is mostly in the areas of plasma astrophysics and astrophysical fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics (including especially solar and stellar magnetic fields); high energy density physics; boundary mixing instabilities; combustion modeling; applications of stochastic differential equations and optimization problems; and inverse methods.

"I have continued research interest overlap with the DOE/ASCI Flash Center at Chicago (which I led for its first five years); this Center has been a pioneer in the development of computational astrophysics codes with broad applicability to other disciplines; and I have been closely involved in that Center's research activities in flame modeling and interfacial mixing. I have also been involved with a Wisconsin/Chicago/Princeton NSF-supported Physics Frontier Center focusing on problems lying at the boundary of astrophysics and laboratory plasma physics, mostly in areas related to magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in low Prandtl number fluids (such as liquid metals, or stellar interiors).

"In addition over the past 7+ years -- through my work at Argonne National Laboratory - I became heavily involved in issues related to science and technology policy and management, especially in areas related to energy, climate, and modeling and simulations, national security, as well as (via my chairmanship of the Department of Energy National Laboratory Directors' Council as well as my work with the Council on Competitiveness) with national policy issues related to STEM workforce development, nuclear and renewable energy technology development, and the role of national laboratories in scientific, technological, and industrial competitiveness, including the relationship between national laboratories, academia, and industry."

Reuben W. Hills Conference Room

Robert Rosner CISAC Visiting Professor Speaker

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