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.

At the Planning Stage for the Autumn (dates and programmes are still fluid)

• The Future of Big Pharma in Asia (APTN with Clyde & Co) London: Thur 30 September (paying seminar)
• ASEAN's ICT Scene (APTN with Fasken Martineau) London: Thur 21 October (paying seminar)
• Contract Research in India: the competition between Global and Local Players (APTN with Clyde & Co) London: Tuesday 16 November (paying seminar)
• Regenerative Medicine in Asia (APTN, London Biotechnology Network) Cambridge: Late September
• Clean Technologies and India (APTN with Marks & Clerk)) London: early autumn (paying seminar)
• Clean Technologies and Japan (APTN with Marks & Clerk)) London: early autumn (paying seminar)
• The Indian Manufacturing Potential (APTN) London: mid-October (paying seminar)
• Asian Human Resource Management (APTN:AIM) London: early autumn (paying seminar)
• The Lessons from Japanese Investment in the UK (APTN:Japan Society) London: October (free seminar)
• Innovation in India and China compared (APTN:AIM) London: autumn/Winter (paying seminar)
• Asian Human Resource Management (APTN:AIM) London: autumn/Winter (paying seminar)
• Emerging Multinational Companies from Asia (APTN:AIM) London: spring 2011 (paying seminar)

If you want to be kept in touch with the development of any of these seminars, please drop an email to biz22@aptn.org

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LATEST DISCUSSION ON APTN'S LINKEDIN GROUP
Can you control technology transfer to China? (the Japanese bullet train story)

We now have 550 people signed up for our Asia-Pacific Technology Group on LinkedIn, with high-quality members from all over the globe (California, New Zealand, Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai etc). To monitor or take part in debates, you do not have to become a fully fledged member of LinkedIn.

If you are already a LinkedIn member, look for the Asia-Pacific Technology Network group under "Groups" or go to www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2550005&trk=hb_side_g
If you aren't a member, drop an email to biz22@aptn.org, asking for an invitation to join.