On January 21, scholars, along with government and business leaders from Japan and the United States, including U.S. Ambassador to Japan Mr. John V. Roos, came together for a transnational "Dialogue on Japan's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem." The event, which took place over Cisco Systems' TelePresence technology and simultaneously connected participants in Tokyo, San Jose, and Stanford, was an opportunity for SPRIE Researcher Robert Eberhart and SPRIE Co-director William Miller present new data on Japan's entrepreneurial climate.  

The data shed new light on the formation of new companies in Japan over the past ten years and is part of continuing research on Japanese entrepreneurship being undertaken by the SPRIE-Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship (SPRIE-STAJE). The dialogue presentation can be downloaded from the SPRIE website.