Thursday 3rd February 2011
Co-organizers:
AIM - Advanced Institute of Management Research
Asia-Pacific Technology Network
R&D Society
Chair
- Dr Krisztian Flautner, Vice president of research and development, ARM
Speakers
- Professor Jaideep Prabhu, AIM Innovation Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
- Stefan Wagstyl, Emerging Markets Editor, Financial Times
Background
This is the first in a series of seminars involving AIM - The Advanced Institute of Management Research and APTN in which we will look at some of the management challenges thrown up by the rapid growth of the Asian economies. We will look both at the challenges facing western companies wanting to do business within Asia, and those facing Asian companies as they try to turn themselves into global players. We will aim to bring you the best of Business School thinking and research, in conjunction with presentations from senior executives with experience of the region.
Location: Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
Nearest tube stations: Piccadilly Circus, Green Park, Charing Cross
Timing: Registration from 17:00: seminar from 17:30 - 19.15 (followed by refreshments)
Pricing:
- Free to APTN & R&D Society annual supporters and AIM Fellows
- £40 + VAT (Executives)
- £20 + VAT (Asian citizens/institutions, officials, executives from Small Companies)
- £10 + VAT (Academics),
- Free for the Media
To Register your interest- please send your details (name, institutional affiliation, email address, phone number - and the category you come under) to aim@aptn.org
Jaideep Prabhu
is the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He is also Director of the Centre for India & Global Business (CIGB) and a Fellow of Clare College. In this talk he will present data that shows how India and China are increasingly major locations for R&D from the world's largest corporations and examine the drivers and consequences of this global shift in R&D foreign direct investment (FDI). When we consider the kinds of R&D being done in these Indian and Chinese labs it raises a number of questions about how these activities and flows of FDI may change in the future. Professor Prabhu will present evidence to argue that while the search for talent led the first wave of this phenomenon, the next wave will be based on innovation based on the market needs of these economies. He will end by arguing that such market led innovation has implications not only for emerging markets but also the developed economies as they head into a prolonged age of austerity.
Krisztian Flautner
is the vice president of research and development at ARM. ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products with more than twenty billion processors deployed by late 2010. He leads a global team which is focused on the understanding and development of technologies relevant to the proliferation of the ARM architecture. The groups activities cover a wide breadth of areas ranging from circuits, through processor and system architectures to tools and software. Key activities are related to high-performance computing in energy-constrained environments. Flautner received a PhD in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan, where he is currently appointed as a visiting scholar. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.
Stefan Wagstyl
is the FT's emerging markets editor. He has been covering emerging markets for over 20 years, and was previously central and east Europe editor, New Delhi bureau chief, and Tokyo bureau chief for the FT.