January 3rd, 2012
ITRI-SPRIE Forum sheds light on interdisciplinary collaboration for smart green innovation
More than 100 delegates gathered in Taipei on December 14th to attend 2011 ITRI-SPRIE Forum on “Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Smart Green Innovation”, jointly organized by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and SPRIE. Focusing on how to establish strategies for commercialization of green technologies, the one-day Forum, attracted a crowd of senior executives of large enterprises and clean-energy startups in Taiwan, local government officials, think-tank experts and academics. Read more »
January 2nd, 2012
China: Big Changes Coming Soon
In an article published in Policy Review, SPRIE co-director Henry Rowen argues that as a result of rapid economic growth, major political and economic changes are possible in China before 2020. Read more »
December 1st, 2011
Lessons from Japan: Promoting entrepreneurship in Fukuoka
The city of Fukuoka, which was selected as one of the “Hot Cities The Top 10” by Newsweek in 2006, has been attracting the attention of foreign investors. Fukuoka now has over 800 local software and digital content companies with the number of companies increasing 20% annually. Kenjiro Takenami at Fukuoka Prefectural Government, spoke to an audience at Stanford about the government’s success in promoting entrepreneurship by supporting research and development of Ruby, an open source programming language invented in Japan. Read more »
Chinese policy makers find inspiration to foster innovation and entrepreneurship at SPRIE executive education program
From November 14th to 22nd, the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) welcomed a delegation of leaders from Shanghai for intensive training on “Leading Innovative and Entrepreneurial Firms and Regions in the Global Economy”. The 20-member delegation was composed of officials and senior managers with responsibilities over high tech parks, human resources, finance and urban planning in Shanghai. Read more »
November 28th, 2011
Chinese take creative approach to internet censorship
Chinese internet users have devised an array of creative ways to navigate around government censorship of China's cyberspace, a leading Hong Kong-based CNN journalist told a Stanford audience. Read more »
November 11th, 2011
Panel discusses why U.S. VC money flies over Japan
Copycat firms that flourish in new niches in China are more attractive for VCs than the highly competitive and risky new technologies in Japan, the panelists noted at a seminar entitled "U.S.-Japan VC Cooperation and the Fly Over Phenomenon" organized by the SPRIE-Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship (STAJE) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Read more »
October 1st, 2011
Who is more digital? Teenagers in China or Silicon Valley?
High School students in Palo Alto, Calif., spend more time using digital media daily than their counterparts in Beijing, but the Chinese youths are more likely to build networks online only according to a new study from Stanford University. Read more »
September 30th, 2011
China's Alibaba wants to acquire Yahoo, says Jack Ma at China 2.0 conference hosted by SPRIE
Jack Ma, chairman of China's Alibaba internet giant, told a Stanford audience his firm is "very interested" in acquiring Yahoo. Ma was one of the speakers at the "China 2.0" conference organized by the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Sept. 30. 
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September 13th, 2011
Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship joins Graduate School of Business
Press ReleaseThe Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship has joined the Graduate School of Business, where it will expand and enhance the depth and reach of global content for the school's academic programs and research. Read more »
August 20th, 2011
Stanford hosts Jannovation Week participants
The Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship (STAJE) and the U.S.-Asia Technology Management Center hosted a group of young Japanese entrepreneurs and students at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering. These students and entrepreneurs visited Stanford University as part of Sunbridge Partner's Jannovation (Japan-Innovation) Week. Jannovation Week is an annual five-day program for Japanese entrepreneurs and students to visit Silicon Valley and experience start-up culture, including interacting with leading start-ups in the San Francisco bay area, meeting with venture capital firms, visiting incubators, and learning from educators. Read more »
July 1st, 2011
Moving innovation beyond boundaries
SPRIE hosted an international forum at Stanford University on “Innovation Beyond Boundaries: Partnerships for Advancing Smart, Green Living” from June 29 to 30. The forum gathered leading thinkers and practitioners to advance understanding and practice on the important topic of public-private partnerships for innovation. Read more »
June 3rd, 2011
University IP management and the weakness of science-based entrepreneurship in Japan
Dr. Robert Kneller's recent talk examined how national systems of industry-university cooperation impact innovation by comparing the Japanese system with that of the United States. Dr. Kneller has spent 13 years with a major science and engineering research center at the University of Tokyo. Read more »
June 1st, 2011
Entrepreneurship and Japan's transformation
Over thirty-five scholars from sixteen different universities in the United States, Japan, and Europe gathered in Bechtel Hall for a two-day academic conference entitled, Entrepreneurship and Japan's Transformation. At the conference, twelve new papers exploring aspects of Japan's entrepreneurial environment were presented from academic fields such as political science, economics, strategy, and organization theory. Read more »
May 31st, 2011
Experts gather to define a framework for SMP research
Despite the growing adoption of social media platforms as a business tool, this is still a relatively new and under-studied area of technology—even in Silicon Valley where many SMP innovations originate, says Rafiq Dossani, a senior research scholar at Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. He and other academic and industry experts convened at Stanford on May 25 for a discussion of SMP business trends, especially in the areas of recruitment and business development in Silicon Valley. Read more »
The movement of people and skills in an era of economic globalization
Dan Wang, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stanford, delivered an engaging talk on the economic impact of skilled return migrants on their home countries. 
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April 14th, 2011
E-commerce, online gaming and social networking benefit from internet boom in China: SPRIE visiting scholar details way forward for US internet firms and investors
Duncan Clark, Visiting Scholar at SPRIE and Chairman/Founder of Beijing-based investment advisory firm BDA China, spoke to a packed room at a seminar, presented by SPRIE, about the appeal and complexities of China’s dynamic internet sector. Audio transcript available presentation available
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March 23rd, 2011
SPRIE executive training session offers Chinese enterprise leaders insights into innovation
From how failure drives innovation to the role of government in supporting entrepreneurship, two expert professors at Stanford led a training session for executives from Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOE) as part of the 2011 Cisco China 21st Century Enterprise Leader Program (ELP) hosted by Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) on March 22, 2011. Read more »
March 16th, 2011
Understanding China's home-grown social media
Thomas Crampton, who oversees social media strategy in the Asia-Pacific region for the marketing and communications company Ogilvy and Mather, talked about what social media means to China and Asia in a seminar organized by SPRIE on Wednesday, March 16. paper, presentation available
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March 11th, 2011
Successful entrepreneurs respond to global trends
"Whatever the world looks like now, it will change," said Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, during the keynote session at the March 1 Entrepreneurship in the Global Marketplace seminar, organized by the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship with sponsorship from Alibaba.com, the first in a series of seminars by the Schwarzenegger Emerging Entrepreneur Initiative. Concluding his remarks, Draper urged the overflow audience: "Go out there and change the world." 
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March 3rd, 2011
U.S. and Japanese officials confer with SPRIE-STAJE
A group of leading American and Japanese venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, academic experts, government officials, and leaders in business and related fields joined the "Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship" symposium, organized by SPRIE-STAJE, the largest U.S.-Japan event held at Stanford in many years, on February 23, 2011. 4 papers, conference agenda available
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March 2nd, 2011
SPRIE's Entrepreneurship Week special event featured Tim Draper
As part of Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University, SPRIE and Alibaba.com hosted "Entrepreneurship in the Global Marketplace," a special seminar featuring noted venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and executives.
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February 16th, 2011
U.S.-Japan Dialogue: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Job Creation
Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford NewsOn February 23, John Roos, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Robert Hormats, U.S. Under Secretary of State, and Norihiko Ishiguro, Director-General of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, will join the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center's Michael Armacost, William Miller, and Robert Eberhart, and prominent Japanese and American business leaders, academic experts, and government officials, will meet at Stanford for a dialogue on entrepreneurship and innovation in Japan. Larry Sonsini, Chairman of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich, and Rosati, will give the keynote address. Read more »
October 20th, 2010
SPRIE represented in Governor Schwarzenegger trade mission to Asia
Occupying the greater part of the United States Pacific coastline, California has long shared a relationship with Asia. Today, trade with China, Japan, and Korea accounts for nearly one-fourth of the state's overall $120 billion in exported goods, and an estimated one in seven California jobs is related to trade. In recognition of the crucial importance of this trade for the state's economic vitality, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and 100 business and government leaders embarked on September 9, 2010 for a six-day trade mission to Asia. Marguerite Gong Hancock, associate director of the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE), represented Stanford University and SPRIE on the delegation's visits to the cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou in China. Read more »
"China 2.0" conference reunites the two scientists who established the first Internet connection in China
in the news: PC World on October 18, 2010Back in 1993, the initial connection between China and the Internet was established by Xu Rongsheng, of Beijing's Institute of High Energy Physics, and Les Cottrell, of what is now the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Today China has more than 420 million Internet users.
- » China 2.0: The Rise of a Digital Superpower (October 2010)
- » China 2.0: The Rise of a Digital Superpower
SLAC's Les Cottrell talks about connecting China to the Internet
in the news: Cisco blog on October 17, 2010Cisco's Marc Musgrove blogged about Dr. Les Cottrell's participation in the kick-off session of "China 2.0," SPRIE's latest conference in Beijing. Thanks to Cisco's Telepresence Dr. Cottrell was able to talk with his pioneering partner in Beijing, the Institute of High Energy Physics' Professor Xu Rongsheng. The work of these two scientists, in concert with many others, brought China its first Internet connection in 1993.
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