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Leadership in China's High Tech Companies

From an unprecedented number of start-ups to a rising class of billion-dollar giants going global, high technology companies in China have a dramatically increasing need for effective leadership. Since 1999, founders have led 24 Chinese firms to IPOs on NASDAQ, ranging from portals such as Sina and AsiaInfo in 2000 to mobile hardware makers and service providers like Hurray!, Vimicro, and Techfaith in 2005.

High Tech Regions 2.0: Sustainability and Reinvention

On November 13-14, 2006, the Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) of Stanford University and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) together with the School of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, will co-sponsor an invitation-only workshop at Stanford University.

Deadlines and Proposal Submission Guidelines

  • Paper proposals are due by July 31; notification of acceptance will be by Aug. 18; papers are due Oct. 31
  • Papers will be considered for inclusion in the proceedings, which will be published in English by SPRIE.
  • Paper proposals should be 1-2 pages long (single-spaced) and in English; include with your proposal citations of your recent and related publications.
  • Submit your proposal in .pdf format; send via electronic mail with the subject "November workshop proposal" to sprie-stanford@stanford.edu. Be sure your proposal arrives in time for the July 31 deadline or it will likely not be considered!
  • Academic presenters of papers will receive a sum that serves both as an honorarium and as support for travel expenses from the home institution to Stanford. Those whose travel across the Pacific or Atlantic will receive $2,000; those who travel from within the contiguous United States will receive $1,800, and those from the Bay Area will receive $1000; lodging and food will be covered by the organizers. Note that papers with multiple authors only receive one honorarium.
Theme

Leading high tech regions face the challenge of sustaining their competitive position amidst shifts in the global knowledge economy. Their ability to create/re-create their edge depends in large measure on the ability to foster innovation and entrepreneurship--to respond to challenges and opportunities presented by competition and collaboration with rising high tech regions as well as to innovate in technologies, services, processes, strategies and business models. The workshop will concentrate on three topics:

Indicators and Analysis of Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  • What are the core strengths and weaknesses of major high tech regions now facing the challenge of sustainability? How are they evolving? Which indicators best reveal regional attributes and trends and how can we improve the collection of such data?
  • What key factors are determining the development of these regions and how is each region's performance in innovation and/or entrepreneurship?
  • What indicators point to the next stage of development for these regions?
Policies, Strategies, Models
  • How are regions responding to pressing challenges and opportunities? How are regional leaders reinventing strategies, exploring new practices, and developing new models?
  • How effective have government policies (national and local) been in fostering productive high tech regions? What are similarities and differences in these policies across regions/countries?
Global Linkages
  • High tech regions are connected through people, technology and capital, linkages that have become both more important and more complex.
  • How do multinationals, hybrid firms and local firms use linkages of people, technology and capital to enhance their competitive advantage? What new business models have emerged recently?
  • What forces nurture or inhibit these global high tech linkages? What kinds of processes and networks are at play and what is their impact on the vitality and sustainability of regions?
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SPRIE announces fall workshop: "High Tech Regions 2.0: Sustainability and Reinvention"

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On November 13-14, 2006, the Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) of Stanford University and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) together with the School of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, will co-sponsor an invitation-only workshop at Stanford University.

More information about the event, including instructions for submitting a proposal, can be found at High Tech Regions 2.0: Sustainability and Reinvention.

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Report of the Committee on Technology Innovation and Venture Capital

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Recognizing that new technology is the driver of growth in the emerging environment of a knowledge-based society, the Indian Planning Commission convened a committee on Technology Innovation and Venture Capital. The Committee undertook a number of tasks, most notably:

  1. to examine innovation and technological dynamism in both the modern and traditional sectors in India;
  2. to examine the relationship between research, entrepreneurship, and financial markets;
  3. to examine the policy environment for venture capital;
  4. to make recommendations, which would lead to basic industrial research and development being converted into new ventures; and
  5. to suggest policy changes to encourage the flow of venture capital for facilitating start-ups and new ventures.

This report is the result of the committee's investigation.

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"Shanghai Starts Up": Leonard Liu's company Augmentum focus of Newsweek article

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SPRIE benefits from the experience and knowledge of its Advisory Board, and one member of the Board and his company were recently the focus of a Newsweek article called "Shanghai Starts Up," a look at how some Chinese software firms are fighting to "jack up outsourcing to a new level."

Steven Levy looked at Liu's company Augmentum, a rapidly expanding three-year-old software start-up whose programmers are working on projects that go beyond the traditionally "low- and medium-level programming" tasks that have usually been outsourced to China.

The article, which originally appeared in Newsweek's June 12, 2006 issue, examined the challenges that face Chinese software companies as they attempt to tap into their workers' creativity and innovation to tackle the most advanced programming projects at--as Liu puts it--"a third of the price it would cost our customers to do [it] in-house."

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SPRIE workshop examines "Greater China's Innovative Capacity: Progress and Challenges"

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On May 20-21, 2006, the Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) and the China Institute for Science and Technology Policy (CISTP) of Tsinghua University co-sponsored an international workshop in Beijing on "Greater China's Innovative Capacity: Progress and Challenges."

The workshop, held in collaboration with the Zhongguancun Science Park and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), was hosted on the campus of Tsinghua University. Participation by more than 70 academics, industry leaders and government policy makers reflected many of the ongoing partnerships SPRIE holds with institutions, individuals and organizations around the world.

The nine workshop sessions and more than twenty paper presentations provided rich opportunities for engaging discussion and knowledge sharing. The output of this workshop will lead to the publishing of selected proceedings in the near future.

Theme and Topics

The workshop addressed how the innovative capacities in Greater China are evolving. What are the most significant areas of progress and challenge? Scholars and business leaders from the U.S., Europe and Asia were brought together to discuss new research and current practice of key aspects of Greater China's innovative capacity: inputs, processes, outputs, institution, government policies, business models and management strategies.

More specifically, the workshop focused on:

  • information and communications technologies
  • innovation across the value chain from R&D to business processes and models
  • development within and linkages among key regions and players in mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore and Silicon Valley
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Greater China's Innovative Capacities: Progress and Challenges

On May 20-21, 2006, the Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) of Stanford University and the China Institute for Science and Technology Policy (CISTP) of Tsinghua University will co-sponsor a workshop in Beijing, China, with the collaboration of Zhongguancun Science Park and the Industrial Technology Research Institute. The English version of the proceedings will be published by SPRIE.

Theme and Topics

The theme is the progress in and challenges to Greater China's innovative capacities. The workshop will include discussions of key drivers of innovative capacity: the inputs, processes, institutions, management strategies and outputs, including evidence of innovative capacities as demonstrated in new products, processes, services or business models.

The workshop will focus on information technology and telecommunications, focusing on development within and linkages among Mainland China and Taiwan, plus Singapore and Silicon Valley. Workshop sessions will include:

Statistical indicators

Corporate R&D: Multinational and domestic firms

University and research institute R&D

Science and technology human resources

Regional innovation

New technologies and business models

Papers invited include case studies of products and of firms, analysis of trends and cross-industry or cross-regional comparisons.

Workshop Format

Attendance at the two-day workshop will be by invitation only. More than twenty papers will be presented and discussed by a group of international scholars; panel participants will include senior industry leaders and government policy makers. The workshop format will facilitate discussions.

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Innovation and the State: High Technology Industries in a World of Fragmented Production - Ireland, Israel, & Taiwan

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One of the most unexpected changes of the 1990s was that firms in a number of emerging economies not previously known for high-technology industries moved to the forefront in new information technologies (IT). Surprisingly, from the perspective of comparative political economy theories, the IT industries of these countries use different business models and have carved out different positions in the global IT production networks. Of these emerging economies, the Taiwanese, Israeli, and Irish have successfully nurtured the growth of their IT industries.

Breznitz argues that emerging economies have more than one option for developing their high technology industries. His research shows how state actions shaped the structure of these three IT industries and that the industry's developmental path was influenced by four critical decisions of the state. His work provides a basis to advance a theoretical framework for analyzing how different choices lead to long-term consequences and to the development of successful and radically different industrial systems.

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Danny Breznitz SPRIE Visiting Scholar and Assistant Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Public Policy Speaker Georgia Tech
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Rafiq Dossani appointed to new Government of India Committee

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The Government of India has appointed Senior Research Scholar Rafiq Dossani to a new Committee on Technical Innovation and Venture Capital (VC). In this capacity, he will recommend policy and regulatory changes to improve the development and financing of technical innovation. The committee reports to the Planning Commission, which is the apex body for policy changes.

Dossani also serves on the U.S.-India Venture Capital Working Group, within the U.S. Department of Commerce, whose objective is to suggest policies that will enhance the flow of U.S. venture capital money to India. Dossani has put the two committees in touch, so that the work of one can help that of the other.

Both committees offer Dossani -- who conducts extensive policy-relevant research on South Asia at Shorenstein APARC -- an opportunity to influence policy in a field that is important to both India and the United States. VC investments in India exceeded $2 billion last year -- 70 percent of which was funded by U.S. institutions -- making India the largest destination for American VC outside the United States.

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David Lobell

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David Lobell is the Benjamin M. Page Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Earth System Science and the Gloria and Richard Kushel Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment. He is also the William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy and Research (SIEPR).

Lobell's research focuses on agriculture and food security, specifically on generating and using unique datasets to study rural areas throughout the world. His early research focused on climate change risks and adaptations in cropping systems, and he served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report as lead author for the food chapter and core writing team member for the Summary for Policymakers. More recent work has developed new techniques to measure progress on sustainable development goals and study the impacts of climate-smart practices in agriculture. His work has been recognized with various awards, including the Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (2010), a Macarthur Fellowship (2013), the National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences (2022) and election to the National Academy of Sciences (2023).

Prior to his Stanford appointment, Lobell was a Lawrence Post-doctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He holds a PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University and a Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University.

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