http://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from SPRIEen-usPublic domainhttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/60http://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3366The cloud offers game-changing opportunities for start-ups to large enterprises, if entrepreneurs and enterprise leaders know how best to harness its power. A panel of cloud computing experts shared their wealth of experience to a full house at the special event on “Innovation in the cloud: how cloud computing is changing the landscape of entrepreneurship and innovation”, organized by SPRIE in partnership with CHAIN.]]>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3366?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3272More 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.]]>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3272?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3285In 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.]]>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3285?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3233From 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.]]>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3233?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3230The 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.]]>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3230?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3225Chinese 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.]]>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3225?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3185Copycat 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.]]>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3185?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3119High 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.]]>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3119?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3101Jack 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.]]>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3101?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3096The 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.]]>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3096?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3063The 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.]]>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3063?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3031SPRIE 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.]]>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3031?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/2974Dr. 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.]]>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/2974?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/2969Over 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.]]>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/2969?rsshttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/2967Despite 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.]]>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/2967?rss