Silicon Valley and Asia: Contrasting Patterns of Open Innovation

From Richard Dasher, who runs excellent and free programs through Stanford.....
Title session is this Thursday.

Two additional programs (Oct.1 and Oct. 7) also outlined below......

Cheers, Sue

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Hi Everyone,

Our US-Asia Technology Management Center autumn
seminars begin with week! You'll recognize the first
speaker.

I'm very happy also to announce that volunteers from
ASES, Stanford's student-run Asia-Pacific Student
Entrepreneurship Society, will be helping us out in various
ways at our seminars this fall. I hope you can meet some
of these dedicated young people.

And, below is also information about an upcoming program
by the Keizai Society US-Japan Business Forum on the
electric automobile.

Best regards,
Richard
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TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIES IN SILICON VALLEY AND ASIA:
CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF OPEN INNOVATION

Speaker:
Richard Dasher
Director
US-Asia Technology Management Center

Thursday, September 24, 2009
4:15 - 5:30 pm
Skilling Auditorium
Type in building name here

Public Welcome at No Charge
Light Refreshments afterward

In this opening session of our Autumn
2009 weekly series on "Technology Strategies
in Asia Business," we first systematically
examine the different functions and elements
of technology strategy. Then, following an
analysis of the special characteristics of
the entrepreneurial open innovation system
of Silicon Valley, we contrast that with
corporate innovation patterns in major Asia
markets and explore their recent trends.

SAVE THE DATES:
I'm very excited about our upcoming sessions:

Next week:
October 1, 2009 will be a panel discussion
on
MANAGING OUTSOURCING TO INDIA
with
--Special moderator Dr. Avinash Agrawal,
former Managing Director of Sun
Microsystems' India Engineering Center,
and panelists
--Bill Ihrie, former Sr VP and CTO of Intuit,
--Sandeep Sood, Founder and Exec Director of
Monsoon Company, an outsourcing management
company whose clients include HP, Microsoft,
Cisco Systems, and Wells Fargo, and author
of the comic "Doubtsourcing."

FYI, future speakers this fall also include:
--Dr. Chang-Gyu Hwang, former CTO of
Samsung Electronics and also President and
CEO of the Semiconductor Division of Samsung
Electronics, and
--Dr. Shigeru Azuhata, Vice President and Executive
Officer, Hitachi Ltd. and General Manager over Hitachi's
R&D Group.

Please stay tuned for more details. It will be great to
see everyone again at our seminars this fall.

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Keizai Society is happy to announce

"Who's Ready for the Electric Car?" forum on 10/7 (Wed)
at the office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto.

Panelists:
--Kurt Kelty: Director Energy Storage Technologies,
Tesla Motors
--Priscilla M. Lu: Chair of the Board of Directors,
Zap Electric Vehicles
--Naoki “Nick” Sugimoto: Principal,
Honda Strategic Venturing
--Jason Wolf: VP Business Development N.A.,
Better Place
(Speakers Panel is subject to change)

5:30p.m.-8p.m., October 7, 2009
Registration and Networking: 5:30 – 6:00 p.m. (PDT)
Program: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. (PDT)

At the offices of:
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC
950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA
Bldg 950 (brick building)

SPACE IS LIMITED: Click here for more details and to register. (Fee required.)

Thanks to MonetizeMedia, Keizai Society will
be webcasting this event globally via the internet,
so pass this message on to your friends who would
enjoy listening to this event, but are located remotely
in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, Latin America,
and elsewhere. This first webcast will be free of charge.

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Richard B. Dasher, Ph.D.
TEL 1-650-725-3621 Stanford University

Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center
FAX 1-650-725-9974 http://asia.stanford.edu

Executive Director, Center for Integrated Systems
FAX 1-650-725-0991 http://cis.stanford.edu
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