http://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/Recent news, events + publications from SPRIEen-usPublic domainhttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/60http://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/3272http://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/3285http://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/3233http://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/3230http://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/3225http://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3208How does bankruptcy reform influence the entry and performance of ventures in Japan? Entrepreneurship is now at the center of many policy questions related to economic growth, employment opportunity, advancement of science and the alleviation of poverty (Ahlstrom, 2010). There is a growing consensus that fostering an appropriate institutional environment is important and affects the dynamic of job growth through new company formation and competition. The question we seek to understand is if institutional changes have the intended effect of creating new and flourishing firms and what are the mechanisms that drive changes in performance of new firms as a result of altering the institutional environment.]]>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/news/3208http://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/3185http://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/3119http://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/3101http://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/3096http://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/events/6959By Invitation Only
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Rowen argues that as a result of rapid economy growth, major political and economic changes are possible in China before 2020.]]>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:21:04 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/publications/23539http://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/publications/23460,
Since 2000, Japan has undergone a revolution in new business incubation, investing in national capacity and building hundreds of incubation facilities. This paper contextualizes developments in Japan within international trends, while identifying model incubator types. A typology of incubation management styles is proposed, contextualized within practices in the U.S. and Europe. The paper is based on an original database constructed of all incubators operating in Japan, in addition to survey and interviews with incubator managers and tenant firms.]]>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:24:38 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/publications/23460http://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/publications/23426, 2011
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This paper provides an overview and conceptual tools for business leaders, policymakers, and non-specialist scholars to identify, distill, and easily understand the core aspects of how cloud computing service markets are developing, and how an array of policy issues will influence how this new computing platform unfolds across the world.]]>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:30:16 PSThttp://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/publications/23254http://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu/publications/22746Oriental Economist Report, November 2009
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