Participants
Alok Aggarwal
Co-founder and Chairman
Evalueserve
http://www.evalueserve.com
Alok is a co-founder and Chairman of Evalueserve. Prior to this, Alok was the Director of Emerging Business Opportunities for IBM Research Division Worldwide. In this capacity, he headed IBM's India Research Laboratory where he was managing a team of 55 researchers involved in research and development of major IBM products and technologies, including those in e-Commerce, Supply Chain Management, natural user interface, speech recognition, networking software, data mining and media mining products and systems management.
Alok received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and his Ph. D. in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University.
He has published over 50 research papers, 10 patents, and has received 2 Outstanding Invention Awards.
Ashish Arora
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Courtesy Appointment, School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/researchers/faculty/ashish.html
Professor Arora's research centers around the areas of economics of technological change, management of technology, intellectual property rights, and technology licensing. He has in the past worked on questions of the productivity of university research, and the growth and development of biotechnology and the chemical industry. He is currently the Research Director of the newly created Software Center, and specifically, is studying the development of the Indian software industry and its links to the US. An enduring research interest is in understanding the rise and functioning of markets for technology and their consequences.
Dr. Wayne Dai
Founder, Chairman, and CEO, VeriSilicon
http://www.verisilicon.com
Dr. Dai is a founder, Chairman, and CEO of VeriSilicon from the beginning in July 2001. He was the CTO and Co-Chairman of Celestry Technologies, Inc, which was acquired by Cadence recently. Prior to that, he was the founder, Chairman and CEO of Ultima Interconnect Technology, Inc., one of the predecessor companies to Celestry. He was the founding Chairman of the IEEE Multi-Chip Module Conference and the founding Chairman of IEEE Symposium on IC/Package Design Integration. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. He has published over 100 papers and received the Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1990. Dr. Dai received a B.A. degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, in 1983 and 1988, respectively.
Rafiq Dossani
Consulting Professor
Asia/Pacific Research Center
Stanford University
http://aparc.stanford.edu/
Dr. Dossani is a consulting professor at the Asia/Pacific Research Center, responsible for developing and directing the South Asia Initiative. His research interests include financial, technology, and energy-sector reform in India.He is currently undertaking a project on the upgrade of information technology in Indian start-ups, and on the institutional phasing-in of power-sector reform in Andhra Pradesh. He serves as an advisor to India's Securities and Exchange Board in the area of venture-capital reform.
Dr. Dossani worked for the Robert Fleming Investment Banking group, first as CEO of its India operations and later as head of its San Francisco operations. He has also been the chairman and CEO of a stock broking firm on the OCTEI exchange in India, the deputy editor of the Business India Weekly, and a professor of finance at Pennsylvania State University. He holds a B.A. in economics from St. Stephen1s College, New Delhi, India; an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India; and a Ph.D. in finance from Northwestern University.
KC Fung
Professor of Economics
University of California, Santa Cruz
http://econ.ucsc.edu/Faculty/facFung.shtml
K. C. Fung's main research areas are in international trade and the economics of East Asia. He has done seminal work in examining whether Japan's system of keiretsu has been acting as a trade barrier against the U.S. His research contributions also include the application of oligopoly and evolutionary game models to trade. He is the first to use profit-sharing to provide a solution to the market structure dilemma in the strategic trade policy literature. He has also done research on linking trade to the labor market and to the environment. Recently, he has also published on various aspects of China's foreign sector, including the exact measurement of the U.S. - China bilateral trade balance, U.S. and Japanese trade and direct investment relation with China. Fung was a senior staff economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisors in both the Clinton and Bush administrations and received a commendation letter from the White House. He was also a consultant to the World Bank and a U.S. delegate to the OECD. He has taught at Stanford University, University of Hong Kong, Nankai University, and Mount Holyoke College. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Tilburg University, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, and City University of Hong Kong. He is a founding codirector of the Santa Cruz Centre for International Economics (SCCIE), an associate director of the Hong Kong Center for Economic Research.
Marguerite Gong Hancock
Associate Director
Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Stanford University
http://aparc.stanford.edu/
Marguerite Gong Hancock is the Associate Director of the Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) which aims to advance the understanding and practice of one of the most significant phenomena of our time: the emergence and growth of regions of innovation and entrepreneurship around the world. Part of Stanford University, SPRIE conducts in-depth analysis of the key drivers, performance, and implications of high technology regional development, from Silicon Valley to Singapore; Beijing, China to Bangalore, India; and Teheran Valley, Korea to Hsinchu, Taiwan. Linking more than 60 researchers from academia, government and industry in 7 countries, SPRIEs work results in publications, forums, and briefings and executive education with widespread implications for business and policy leaders.
As Associate Director for SPRIE, Hancock oversees all of SPRIEs major research initiatives: international high technology regions, national policies and institutions, incubation of start-up firms, and international benchmarks. Currently, she is also pursuing research on several regions in Greater China, conducting case studies of several companies in the telecom and computer industries, and collaborating to develop a new framework and set of quantitative and analytical indicators for global high technology regions. She is co-editor of The Silicon Valley Edge (Stanford University Press, 2000) with Chong-Moon Lee, William F. Miller, and Henry S. Rowen, also translated into Korean (Joong Ahn Ilbo, 2001), Japanese (Nihon Keizai, 2001), and Chinese (Peoples Publishing, 2002).
A specialist on government-business relations in the development of information technologies, she has served as Director of Network Research for the Stanford Computer Industry Project at the Graduate School of Business; Research Associate at the East Asia Business Program of the University of Michigan; and as a consultant in Boston and Tokyo.
Hancock holds a B.A. in Humanities and East Asian studies from Brigham Young University and an M.A. from Harvard University in East Asian studies. While pursuing a Ph.D. at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, she focused on government-business relations for the development of the computer industry in China.
Ken Kraemer
Director, CRITO & I/UCRC
Professor, Information Systems, Graduate School of Management and CRITO
University of California, Irvine
http://www.crito.uci.edu/kraemer/
Professor Kraemer has conducted research on the management of computing in organizations for more than 25 years. He is currently studying the diffusion of computing in Asia-Pacific countries, the dynamics of computing in organizations, the business value of IT, and policies for successful implementation of information systems. He has co-authored nine books, including, ``Asia's Computer Challenge: Threat or Opportunity for the U.S. and the World?" and ``Managing Information Systems". His articles have been published in Communications of the ACM, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Public Administration Review, Telecommunications Policy and Policy Analysis. He was recently the Shaw Professor in Information Systems and Computer Sciences at the National University of Singapore. Prof. Kraemer was recently named Taco Bell Professor of IT for Management.
Paul M. Lubeck
Professor of Sociology
Director, Center for Global, International & Regional Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
http://cgirs.ucsc.edu
Paul M. Lubeck is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies at the University at UC Santa Cruz. He has conducted research in Nigeria, Niger, Malaysia and Egypt, initially in Niger as a Peace Corps volunteer organizing rural cooperatives among Muslim peasants. Professor Lubeck's first book, Islam and Urban Labor in Northern Nigeria, was awarded the Herskovits Prize in 1987. Since 2000, Professor Lubeck has directed an eight-country research project on Globalization, State Capacity, Self-Determination and Islamic Social Movements sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. In terms of professional service, he has consulted on democracy and human rights issues for the Department of State, the Canadian Government, the Carter Center and as a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy. His recent research fellowships include the Fulbright Program, the Social Science Research Council as well as the Transnational Communities Programme and St. Antony's College at Oxford University.
Robert Miller
Vice Chancellor for Research
University of California, Santa Cruz
http://www.ucsc.edu/research/
As vice chancellor for research, Miller is responsible for coordination and executive leadership of research administration and planning; development of research funding opportunities and growth strategies across all academic divisions; development of research policies; management of technology transfer activities; oversight of contracts, grants, and research compliance matters; and advocacy with local, state, and federal agencies.
Prior to coming to Santa Cruz, Miller was vice provost for intellectual property and technology transfer and helped the University of Washington become a national leader in transferring ideas from its research labs to businesses and industry. As a result, the university receives considerable income from licensing, royalties, and equity stakes in start-up companies.
Miller is also a distinguished scientist with an international reputation for research, teaching, and administration. He is a professor of microbiology at UW, and at the University of British Columbia he served as head of the Department of Microbiology, dean of the Faculty of Science, and vice president of research.
His research interests include molecular genetics and nucleic acids. Much of his research has focused on cellulases--enzymes that degrade cellulose--and their genes in the bacterium Cellulomonas fimi. Because cellulase enzymes break down wood fibers, they have applications in the pulp and paper industry. Miller holds five U.S. patents based on his research.
Miller received his B.S. in physics from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, his M.S. in biophysics from Pennsylvania State University, and his Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, co-recipient of the Gold Medal for Natural Sciences from the Science Council of British Columbia, and recipient of numerous other honors for research, teaching, and service. He serves as vice president of the Association of University Technology Managers and serves on the Intellectual Property Management Committee of the Council on Governmental Relations.
Barry Naughton
Interim Associate Dean
Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs
Director, Chinese Studies Program
Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies
University of California, San Diego
http://www-irps.ucsd.edu/irps/catalog/naughton.html
Professor Naughton is an authority on the Chinese economy, with an emphasis on issues relating to industry, trade, finance, and China's transition to a market economy. His broader fields of study include comparative economic systems, international economics, and economic development. Recent research focuses on regional economic growth in the People's Republic of China and the relationship between foreign trade and investment and regional growth patterns. His book, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993,which was published in 1995, is a comprehensive study of China's development from a planned to a market economy that traces the distinctive strategy of transition followed by China, as well as China's superior growth performance. It received the Ohira Memorial Prize in 1996. Naughton is the author of numerous articles on the Chinese economy and is editor or co-editor of three other books: Reforming Asian Socialism: The Growth of Market Institutions, Urban Spaces in Contemporary China,and The China Circle: Economics and Technology in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong.Naughton joined IR/PS in 1988 and was named to the Sokwanlok Chair in Chinese International Affairs in 1998.
AnnaLee Saxenian
School of Information Management and Systems
Department of City and Regional Planning
University of California, Berkeley
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~anno/
AnnaLee Saxenian is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management and Systems and the Department of City and Regional Planning. She is an internationally recognized expert on regional economies and the information technology sector. Her current research examines the contributions of skilled immigrants to Silicon Valley and their growing ties to regions in Asia. Her books include Silicon Valleys New Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. She has written extensively about entrepreneurs, innovation and regional development in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
Saxenian is a Member of the California Council on Science and Technology, an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute for the Future (IFTF), and served as the Gordon Cain Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research in 1999-2000. She holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master's in Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College in Massachusetts. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and two sons.
Ted Tschang
Assistant Professor of Economics & Technology
School of Business,
Singapore Management University http://www.business.smu.edu.sg/Community/Faculty_staff/tedtschang.html
Ted Tschang is Assistant Professor of Economics and Technology in the School of Business, Singapore Management University. His research focuses on technology policy, industrial development, and knowledge and innovation management. He previously worked at Tokyo-based research institutes of the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations University. His recent work included studies on the Indian and Chinese software industry, and on there search and development system in Singapore. His current work is on creativity and the product development process in the US video game industry. He has a doctorate in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University.
Organizers
Nirvikar Singh
Professor of Economics
Co-Director and Coordinator (02-03)
Santa Cruz Center for International Economics
University of California, Santa Cruz
http://econ.ucsc.edu/Faculty/facSingh.shtml
Nirvikar Singh joined the faculty in 1982. He directs the Business Management Economics program and is codirector of the Santa Cruz Institute of International Economics. He has also taught at the Delhi School of Economics. His visiting research appointments have been at Stanford University; the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University; National Institute for Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi; Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi; Centre for Development Economics, Delhi; and Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Professor Singh's main current research is on federalism, governance, and economic reform in India. He is working with Dr. Govinda Rao on a book, The Political Economy of Indian Federalism. He has worked on decentralization and local government reform in India for the World Bank. His other research topics include electronic commerce, technology and innovation, the strategic behavior of governments toward multinational corporations, international technology transfer, international water disputes, and economic growth and development in South and East Asia. He has also conducted theoretical research on how asymmetric information affects the structure and performance of markets and organizations, and has done empirical research in energy economics.
Kyle Eischen
Associate Director of Regional & Informational Research
Center for Global, International & Regional Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
http://cgirs.ucsc.edu
Reuters Digital Vision Fellow
CSLI, Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~keischen
Kyle Eischen is currently a Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, and the Associate Director for Regional and Informational Research at the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, UC Santa Cruz. His Digital Vision work focuses on government, technology and social benefits linked to e-government innovation and implementation.
As the co-founder of Abrivo Inc. and the Abrivo Foundation, he is actively involved in facilitating global technology and knowledge partnerships focused on “triple bottom-line” projects in emerging regions, particularly South Asia. Two current initiatives are ConsultingX and the DevTec Center, both of which seek to improve technology transfer and knowledge partnerships between Silicon Valley, Europe and small and medium Indian enterprises.
His research centers on software development, the social impact of information technology, informational practice and infrastructures, and IT-centered regional economic development. Recent work includes: “Opening the `Black Box` of Software: The Micro-foundations of Informational Technologies, Practices and Environments” (Information, Communication & Society # 6.1, 2003); “Andhra Pradesh: Lessons for Global Software Development (Computer June 2003); Information Technology for Development: From Charity to Sustainability (with Jon Guice, Development, December 2002); and “Software: An Outsider’s View” (Computer, May 2002).
He holds a Masters in Applied Economics and International Affairs from the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego, and is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz.
Sponsoring Organizations
Santa Cruz Center for International Economics, UC Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Center for International Economics (SCCIE) is a group of UCSC scholars working in the field of international economics, broadly defined to cover international finance, open economy macroeconomics, international trade, development economics (and linkages with environmental issues), and international political economy.
The objective of SCCIE is to broaden our understanding of international economic issues by sponsoring research, conferences, graduate studies, and the exchange of scholars.
We also support and participate in activities designed to bring greater public awareness and understanding to policy issues involving international economics. SCCIE supports public seminars, publication of working papers, and occasional public forums.
The Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, UC Santa Cruz
CGIRS is an inter-disciplinary research center structured to understand the impacts of new economic and technological transformations on society. CGIRS has conducted extensive research on regional development, immigration, information technologies and policymaking, seeking to understand the complex interactions shaping economic, strategic and policy choices within a global environment. This work has involved partnerships with universities and research centers in Malaysia, India, Mexico, England, South Africa and California. CGIRS is also home to the Global Information Internship Program (GIIP) that conducts applied technology and social development projects with non-governmental organizations worldwide.
UC Santa Cruz Office of Research
Where innovation is a tradition. The motto of the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California aptly characterizes a robust environment for world-class research, science and technology in a variety of academic and research programs. This tradition continues with the opening of the new UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Regional Center.
UCSC South Asian Studies Initiative
The South Asian Studies Initiative (SASI) seeks to place UCSC as a leading US site for multidisciplinary research on South Asia. In its short history, SASI has sponsored delegations to India by the UCSC Chancellor, sponsored international conferences on Indian economic reforms and Indian arts and culture, garnered support for an endowed chair in India studies, established an endowment for classical Indian music endowment, and deepened support for the Satyajit Ray Film Archive.
The initiative aims to create an enduring resource for understanding the region and its cultures. The initiative is being designed to include classes, seminars, conferences, and research spanning numerous academic disciplines. The initiative is supported by two major UC Santa Cruz research centers: The Center for Cultural Studies and the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies.
