Invitation: Join us at the Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego:
Can Entrepreneurship be Taught? Initiatives to Foster Innovation in the U.S. and Japan

Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 4:30pm-5:30pm Pacific (PST)

Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 9:30am-10:30am Japan Time (JST)

Please register here: http://bit.ly/2LT7GWP

Speakers:

• Robert Eberhart, Associate Director of Research on Entrepreneurship and Society, Stanford University

• Kenji Kutsuna, Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, Kobe University

Moderated by Ulrike Schaede, Professor of Japanese Business, GPS at UC San Diego

Is the ability to ideate, incubate, and launch a new company innate, or can it be taught? And, if it can be taught, can it also be nurtured by policy measures? These are hot questions addressed by many different disciplines, from the analysis of business clusters to the psychology of a successful startup person. Meanwhile, central and local governments around the globe are trying to build their own version of a Silicon Valley-type innovation cluster, sometimes copying all aspects including pitch event styles, VC laws, and even coffee-shops and fashion trends! Japan is one of the global trailblazers in these policy attempts to foster domestic entrepreneurship. This panel discusses Japan's attempts and successes, from the Edge Program to J-Startup, and then compares it with the experience in Silicon Valley on what it takes to sustain an innovation ecosystem.