The Asia-Pacific Technology Network (APTN) is a London-centred network of people interested in Asian technology. The Network has developed from the delegates who attended annual UK-Japanese, UK-Chinese and UK-Korean High Technology Forums run over 20 years from the mid-1980s.. Today, the Network is interested in developments from Japan through to India, with ASEAN and Australasia also on the agenda.
The goal is to encourage collaboration between the UK, wider Europe and Asia in the area of high technology and corporate strategy. The Network seeks to do this by deepening the mutual knowledge that participants from the two regions have of each other's innovation systems (ie how government, industry and academia work together in high technology sectors), and on the ways in which sophisticated technology is best applied to business activities
The core of our activities is a seminar series, involving some 30 seminars a year, primarily in London, but sometimes elsewhere in the UK. We invite people to these through a regular, mass email campaign. We offer annual membership, or else charge lightly for attendance. To the extent we have the time, we support the activities of others who are in the same general area.
We have created a related site which focusses on the post-1990 history of Japanese Investment in the UK. It is built round a 20,000 word draft, written by Louis Turner and funded by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. The site invites comments and corrections which will be incorporated into later versions of the main draft. We will also add documents to the site which relate to this phenomenon, such as the following
If you would like to be kept informed of the development of any of these seminars, please drop a note to biz22@aptn.org
In December 2009, we launched an APTN Group within LinkedIn, the professional networking site – with a membership which is now over 950 and ranges geographically across the USA (8%), Japan (8%), China (4%), India (3%), Malaysia (3%) and Singapore (3%) - with smaller groups from Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Philippines, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan and Turkey. We have used this APTN Group to launch two sub groups - AP CleanTech (which remains small) and Asian Pharmaceuticals, which has just breached the 200 mark.
If you are already a LinkedIn member, look for the Asia-Pacific Technology Network group under "Groups" or go to click here for a link. If you aren't a member, drop an email to biz22@aptn.org, asking for an invitation to join.