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2021 US-Asia Technology Management Center Annual Meeting

Thursday, May 20, 2021

04:30 pm - 07:00 pm

Recording Now Available: Annual US-Asia Technology Management Center Affiliates Meeting (Open to the Public)

Join us for the US-Asia Technology Management Center’s Annual Meeting.  We invite you to hear about the “State of the Center” from Dr. Richard Dasher which will include a strategic overview of the activities undertaken this year as well as a vision of the future direction of the center.

The agenda will include a panel discussion on Overcoming the Innovator’s Dilemma:  U.S. Lessons in Japan and Asia where we will welcome guests, Ms. Michi Kaifu, CEO of ENOTECH Consulting and Mr. Kenneth Epstein, Principal at NewCap Partners to share their perspectives.

Finally, our meeting will conclude with presentations by our Visiting Scholars on the research they have been doing during their time with the US-Asia Technology Management Center.

Dr. Richard Dasher

Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center

Dr. Richard Dasher has directed the US-Asia Technology Management Center since 1994 and is Adjunct Professor of East Asia Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. From 1998 – 2017, he served concurrently as Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Systems (now Stanford System X Alliance) and held Consulting Professor appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering. In 2004, Dr. Dasher became the first non-Japanese person to join the governance of a Japanese national university, serving on the Board of Directors and then on the Management Council of Tohoku University until 2011. Other service (selected) includes the Program Committee of the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) of MEXT since its founding in 2007, and advisory roles with research institutes, accelerators, and nonprofits in Asia, Canada, and the U.S.

Dr. Kenji Kushida

Japan Program Research Scholar, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and Project Leader, Silicon Valley – New Japan Project (SV-NJ)

Kenji E. Kushida is a Japan Program Research Scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and an affiliated researcher at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy.

Kushida’s research interests are in the fields of comparative politics, political economy, and information technology. He has four streams of academic research and publication: political economy issues surrounding information technology such as Cloud Computing; institutional and governance structures of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster; political strategies of foreign multinational corporations in Japan; and Japan’s political economic transformation since the 1990s.

Kushida has written two general audience books in Japanese, entitled Biculturalism and the Japanese: Beyond English Linguistic Capabilities (Chuko Shinsho, 2006) and International Schools, an Introduction (Fusosha, 2008).

Kushida holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He received his MA in East Asian studies and BAs in economics and East Asian studies, all from Stanford University.

For additional information such as C.V., publications, and working papers, please visit Kenji Kushida’s homepage.