Tuesday 29 April 2008.
Organiser Asia-Pacific Technology Network
Speakers:
We have organised this at relatively short notice. The goal of this seminar is to look at the major centres of technology in Asia, and to ask questions about how western companies should respond to their emergence. James Wilsdon, Head of Science and Innovation at Demos, and leader of the Atlas of Ideas project has agreed to give an overview, and the other commentators will briefly make the case for particular centres.
To some extent, this seminar follows on from an earlier one we ran on "Alternatives to China" (3rd July 2007)
James Wilsdon
James Wilsdon is Head of Science and Innovation at Demos. He is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies at Lancaster University. His work focuses on the governance of science and technology, and he has written widely on science policy, innovation, globalisation and sustainability. Since 2005, he has been co-director of The Atlas of Ideas project, which is mapping changes in the geography of science and innovation. The first phase of The Atlas of Ideas was described by the Financial Times in January 2007 as 'the most comprehensive assessment so far of emerging innovation in China, India and Korea'. A second phase is now underway, and will include studies of Brazil and the Islamic world. James regularly advises governments, companies and NGOs. His recent publications include 'See-through Science' (Demos 2004), 'The Public Value of Science' (Demos 2005), 'Governing at the Nanoscale' (Demos 2006), 'China: the next science superpower?' (Demos 2007), and 'The Atlas of Ideas: how Asian innovation can benefit us all' (Demos 2007)
Andrew Gaule
Andrew is leading an innovation programme in China from 9 – 15 April where he will be speaking at the 10th Annual China Venture Capital conference. The discussion he will provoke will be around Open Innovation and the impact of China and approaches to innovation in this country. Andrew will also provide insights to partnership models from his experience of leading the H-I Network of leading innovative corporates.
Andrew Gaule is the founder of the H-I Network a thought leadership forum comprised of senior executives from some of the world’s leading organisations that are developing new innovations. Andrew also leads the Corven Innovation practise
Andrew has led innovation strategy initiatives and new business ventures at organisations such as Unilever, DHL, BOC and the Health Protection Agency:
He has created new methodologies to support new business innovation:
- the “Five Ps”, a methodology for ensuring innovation and venturing processes are sufficiently holistic and strategically aligned;
- the New Business Cube, a methodology for evaluating innovations throughout their development, from a holistic perspective, to prevent wastage and maximise the chances of successful deployment;
- the extrapreneur® terminology, a set of criteria used to identify individuals with an external perspective and the extra skills needed to develop ideas successfully in open innovation environments.
Andrew is the author of ‘Open Innovation in Action – How to be strategic in the search for new sources of value’ which includes case studies from H-I Network clients P&G, QinetiQ, Shell, DSM and Tate & Lyle.
Andrew has an economics degree from St John’s College, Cambridge, is a qualified chartered management accountant and gained his MBA at Henley Management College.
Mark Kobayashi-Hillary
Mark is one of the best-known British commentators on corporate technology and globalisation and is regularly called on by broadcasters including the BBC, CNN, CNBC, and Sky to explain and elaborate on technology stories, both on radio and TV.
He is the author/editor of a number of books focused on globalisation and particularly how technology and the Internet enable organisations, including titles such as ‘Outsourcing to India’ and ‘Global Services: Moving to a Level Playing Field’.
Mark’s new book, ‘Who Moved My Job?’, is scheduled for publication in July 2008. He is also working on a 6-part TV documentary focused on the globalisation of services.
Mark writes for the national technology magazine ‘Computing’ (VNU Incisive) and online journal silicon.com (CNET). His blog is one of the most popular outsourcing blogs on the Internet and his podcast is the most popular on this topic on iTunes.
Mark is a director of the UK National Outsourcing Association and a founder of the British Computer Society Working Party on Offshoring. He is a non-executive director of online foreign exchange firm FxaWorld plc and the founder of blogpistol.com. Mark is also a visiting lecturer at London South Bank University, teaching MSc and MBA students.
Hugh Purser
Hugh Purser spent 17 years living and working in Asia engaged in investment management, and in the licensing and commercialisation of technology and biotechnology. He was Director of Business Development at Singapore’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, and later fulltime consultant in the Executive Director's Office of Singapore's National Science and Technology Board (now A*Star). He was a member of the first regional coordinating group of the UNDP-sponsored International Vaccine Institute in Seoul. He was Director of a specialist technology start-up venture capital fund, the Technology Fund. In 2004 he became international adviser to the Global BioBusiness Initiative at the Marshall School, University of Southern California, and a judge for GBI’s Biobusiness Leadership Award series. Hugh has for several years been a judge for the Cambridge University students’ business plan competition. He was a Director of Algometrics (Cayman) Limited, a hedge fund, and Senior Vice President of Algometrics Limited, the management company based in London. He is a member of Asia Pacific Technology Network’s Advisory Board, and of the International Relations committee of the Greater Cambridge Partnership. Hugh is Chairman of Exudo, a company providing membership, portal and e-commerce systems to social, business and consumer networks.
Alex Stewart
Alex Stewart is managing director of Alexander Capital Access (ACA), a company specializing in connecting R&D based companies in Japan and the UK. Alex has been involved with Japan since 1976, first as a securities analyst working particularly with Baring Securities (later ING) during the 1980s and 1990s. He established his company ACA in Japan in 2002 where he was based for a total of 15 years over three different occasions, before moving to the Cambridge area in mid-2007. ACA has built up a very strong network of relationships in the western region of Japan around Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe (a region known as Kansai). Alex is an Adviser to the Osaka City Government for Inward Investment and was formerly Comprehensive Planning Adviser to the Office of the Mayor of Osaka. He is also an International Adviser to the Kyoto Nanotechnology Cluster, which is one of the 20 or so technology clusters established by the Ministry of Education, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). In addition he has developed personal relationships with professors in the major universities of the region. He is currently launching a service for Japanese companies to help them to achieve better access to R&D from UK universities and venture spinouts.
Madeleine Sturrock
PanCathay Consulting Ltd was set up in 2003 to help British companies do business in China and Chinese organisations promote themselves in the UK. Its founder and managing director is Madeleine Sturrock.
PanCathay is contracted to promote Tianjin’s premier development zone, TEDA, in the UK and Ireland, a contract which it has held since 2004. TEDA is one of China’s most successful development zones, as rated by China’s Ministry of Commerce, but also by independent sources such as Singapore Knowledge Press, which has conducted a thorough study of all China’s state-level development zones and industrial parks.
Madeleine first visited China in the early 1980s, after studying Mandarin. She taught English in Sichuan and studied at Beijing University. Since 1987 she has been advising British companies about their China strategy, first with the 48 Group of British Traders with China, then at the newly-formed China-Britain Trade Group and latterly as their deputy Chief Executive, until 2003.
Madeleine is now a fluent Chinese speaker. She has travelled widely throughout China and lived there twice. She has visited China more than 50 times and taken 15 trade missions (and countless companies) to China.
Contact details: msturrock@pancathay.com. Tel: 020 7407 8900 www.pancathay.com
Location: Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7LP
Timing: 5.30 - 7.30 pm.
Nearest Tube Stations: Oxford Circus, Regents Park
Pricing: £40 + VAT (Executives) £20 + VAT (Asian citizens/institutions, officials, executives from Small Companies)£10 + VAT (Academics), Free for the Media.
To Register: please send your details (name, institutional affiliation, email address, phone number) to biz@aptn.org
Contact: Louis Turner, 0790 5204 677