Katsunori Komeda is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2013-14. Komeda has been working at Sumitomo Corporation, one of Japan's major trading and investment conglomerates. Komeda has approximately 10 years of experience in business development in the cinema and broadcasting business. Komeda graduated for The University of Tokyo with a bachelor's degree in economics.
Kensuke Itoh is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2013-14. Itoh has over eight years of experience in the information technology arena at Sumitomo Corporation, one of the major trading and investment conglomerates in Japan, and its subsidiaries. His experience in the IT industry includes sales, strategy planning, M&A process and administration. While at Stanford, Itoh is researching the difference in the profitability and structure of IT businesses between the United States and Japan. Itoh is interested in applying his knowledge gained here to his work and overall helping to revise the economy in Asia. Itoh graduated from the Graduate School of Energy Science at Kyoto University with a degree in energy science and technology.
Tetsuo Ishiai is a corporate affilaite visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2013-14. He started his career in 1990 as a hardware engineer for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Ishiai has been engaged in designing and developing hardware components for several server computers and communication systems, as well as managing hardware development teams. His products include circuit boards for hardware sorting engines and small business computers. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with a BS in electrical engineering and electronics.
The 4th annual China 2.0 conference by the Stanford Graduate School of Business will be held on Thursday, October 3, 2013 at Stanford University.
The event will feature keynote speakers, panels, and interactive sessions followed by a networking reception.
China 2.0 Keynote Speakers
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Charles Chao CEO & Chairman of the Board, SINA
Martin Lau President, Tencent
Gary Locke U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
China 2.0, an initiative of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship in China by looking at the drivers and dynamics of China as a digital power and its implications for commerce, communications and content in the global economy.
China 2.0 fosters cutting-edge research, offers students unique educational opportunities, connects thought leaders and impacts the next generation of entrepreneurs.
A bridge between China and Silicon Valley, China 2.0 brings together executives, entrepreneurs, investors, policy makers and academicsdriving change on both sides of the Pacific through seminars and the largest annual China technology and business conferences hosted by the Stanford Graduate School of Businessat Stanford and in China.
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Audience
In September of 2012, over 600 people attended the China 2.0 conference at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Approximately 70% of the attendees were from the Stanford community (alumni, students, and faculty). The remaining 30% included attendees from companies/organizations including: Applied Materials, American Express, Cisco, Deloitte, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, eBay, Google, HP, Huawei, Oracle, Qunar.com, Silicon Valley Bank, the U.S. Department of State, and Yahoo!
China 2.0 conferences and research output have attracted broadcast, print, and online coverage from leading media organizations such as: ABC7, All Things Digital, Associated Press, Bloomberg Businessweek, China Daily, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, The New York Times, Sina, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Knight Management Center
Stanford University
655 Knight Way
Stanford, CA 94305-7298
(650) 736-1152
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gcarroll@gsb.stanford.edu
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Laurence W. Lane Professor of Organizations in the Graduate School of Business and Professor, by courtesy, of Sociology
In our current era, the advent of digital technologies and accelerating globalization is driving ever-faster commoditization of firms and products. With rapidly improving Information and Communications Technology (ICT) tools, manufacturing is decomposed with finer granularity, and corporate functions can be outsourced and offshored more than ever before. Services can be unbundled into activities that can be taken apart, reconfigured, and transformed with the application of algorithms. Overall, firms are experiencing accelerating shifts in the sweet-spot for markets and business models in their search for sustainable advantage.
As firms struggle to adjust in this global, digital world, governments are also under pressure to examine their options to retain value in their national contexts; wealthy nations face the challenge of how to remain wealthy.
Japan is no exception, and from this vantage it is worth reconsidering the potential role that industrial policy can play in its growth strategy. We will proceed in three sections, each of which builds from our previous research (indicated below the title), towards a set of recommendations for thinking about industrial policy in this digital, global era. Each point contributes something new to Japan’s discourse about a new growth strategy.
In The New York Times, Kenji E. Kushida discussed Japan's "Galapagos" information technology sector and the unique pace of the Japanese cellphone market.
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Smartphone Evolution, April 2011 | Flickr user Phil Roeder
From executive boardrooms to national capitols, leaders are debating the relative merits of contending models and strategies for attracting, developing, and empowering innovation talent--the people who drive economic growth and value creation through innovation.
On June 28, 2013, the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) convened a circle of over 50 policymakers, executives and Stanford community members from 12 countries for an interactive roundtable on innovation talent at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Topics of discussion included:
What are key data and trends for innovation talent in Silicon Valley?
What strategies are places such as London, Taiwan and Israel employing to become hotbeds of innovation that attract innovation talent?
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How can companies successfully manage and empower their innovation talent? What best practices have been learned?
What insights and implications into innovation talent can be gathered from recent research?
How are universities innovating through programs such as Stanford's StartX and the d.school?
Agenda
8:30 – 8:45
Registration
8:45 – 9:00
Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:00 – 10:15
“The Right Talent, Essentially” Evan Wittenberg, Senior Vice President, People, Box Kyung H. Yoon, CEO, Talent Age Associates Moderator: Greg McKeown (MBA '08), CEO, THIS, Inc.
10:15 – 11:10
“The Rx for Innovation” Baba Shiv, Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business
11:10 – 11:30
Break
11:30 – 12:30
“Innovation Talent Spanning Boundaries” Chunyan Zhou, Director, International Institute of Triple Helix (IITH) Morten Petersen, Assistant Professor, Aalborg University Kung Wang, Chair Professor, China University of Technology Moderator: Henry Etzkowitz, Senior Researcher, H-STAR Institute, Stanford University
12:30 – 1:30
Lunch
1:30 – 2:10
“Accelerating the Next Generation of Innovation Talent” Cameron Teitelman (BS '10), Founder & CEO, StartX Divya Nag, Founder, StartX Med
2:10 – 2:40
“Silicon Valley Perspective” Russell Hancock, President & CEO, Joint Venture Silicon Valley
2:40 – 3:00
Break
3:00 – 4:30
“Global Policy Perspectives” Sigal Admony-Ravid, Consul for Economic Affairs to the West Coast, State Of Israel Chao-Han Liu, Vice President, Academia Sinica Priya Guha, British Consul General in San Francisco Angus Lapsley, Director European & Global Issues, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, Room E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
(650) 724-0051
(650) 723-6530
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dongsung@stanford.edu
2013 Visiting Scholar
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Dong Sung Kim, a lawyer, is a 2013 visiting scholar in the Korean Studies Program. Mr. Kim, former member of the National Assembly in South Korea, served in the national defense committee of the Assembly.
Mr. Kim was an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration and Local Autonomy, Hanyang University, 2010–2011. He began his career in law as judge in the district of Incheon in 2000.
Mr. Kim holds a BA in Law from Seoul National University and an MA in Business Administration from Yonsei University, Korea.
SPRIE's Silicon Valley Project is focused on innovation talent, and more specifically on the development and management of innovation talent, as well as the policies that affect innovation talent. This brown bag seminar will feature two perspectives about innovation talent, giving attendees an idea of the situation in Korea and Sweden.
The brown bag seminar will begin with "Innovation Talent in Korea: Challenges and Responses" by Sunyang Chung, Ph.D., Professor of Technology Management; Dean of the William F. Miller School of MOT at Konkuk University; and Visiting Scholar at SPRIE. Dr. Chung will discuss the situation of innovation talent in Korea and the responses of the Korean government and Samsung.
Dr. Anne Lidgard, Director of the VINNOVA Silicon Valley Office, will then speak on "Swedish Policy for Attracting Innovation Talent." Sweden is a country with only 9 million people at the northern edge of Europe. There is a very high risk that global flows of talent will bypass Sweden in the future. Dr. Lidgard's talk will cover some policy actions taken over the past years to facilitate the attraction of foreign talent and also look at some of the effects.
After the presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions in a Q&A session.
Lunch will not be provided, but there will be sweet snacks for those attending.
Dr. Chung
Dr Sunyang Chung, Dean at Miller School of MOT, Konkuk University
received his 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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Anne Lidgard, Ph.D., has a background in corporate R&D at AT&T Bell Labs and at Ericsson. She has also spent many years working with small businesses in various positions, from Director of Sales to CEO to Partner at a venture catalyst company.
She joined VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Innovation Agency in January 2006, and has been part of the management team since May 2009. As of June 2012, she is Director of VINNOVA's Silicon Valley Office and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.
Oberndorf Event Center, 3rd Floor North Building, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Dr Sunyang Chung, Dean at Miller School of MOT, Konkuk University
