Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, Room E310
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

mhancock@stanford.edu
(650) 723-4588 (voice)
(650) 723-6530 (fax)

Expertise
High technology innovation and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley and regions in Asia, including China, Taiwan, and others.

Marguerite Gong Hancock is the associate director of the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE). For SPRIE, she manages project research, conferences and seminars, publications, and oversees the project's affiliated academic and government research partners in six countries in Asia. She leads SPRIE's China team, guiding research on high tech regions, case studies of information technology companies, and new work on the globalization of R&D and high tech leadership in Greater China.

She is co-editor of Making IT: Asia's Rise in High Tech (Stanford University Press, forthcoming spring 2006) and The Silicon Valley Edge (Stanford University Press, 2000). She continues to be an active member of Stanford's Entrepreneurship Task Force and a speaker to university and business leaders, including presentations for executive education and conferences in Silicon Valley and Asia.

A specialist on government-business relations in the development of information technology, Hancock has worked as director of Network Research for the Stanford Computer Industry Project at the Graduate School of Business; as a research associate at the East Asia Business Program of the University of Michigan; and as a company consultant in Boston and Tokyo. She holds a BA in humanities and East Asian studies from Brigham Young and an MA from Harvard in East Asian studies. While pursuing a PhD at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, she focused on computer industry development in China.