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Ties That Bind
human rights and on state power and globalization in China. APARC’s Stanford Project on Regions
of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) and the China Institute for Science and
Technology Policy at Tsinghua University in Beijing held a May 2006 workshop on “Greater
China’s Innovative Capacity.” SPRIE has in recent years hosted seminars on Taiwan/China tech
sector globalization and production, globalization of integrated circuit development, and the future
of China’s semiconductor industry, and has also hosted visiting scholars from Taiwan’s Industrial
Technology Research Institute (ITRI).
The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) focuses on cultural studies and sponsors travel and
research grants as well as foreign study and internship programs.
Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) launched the Global Management Immersion
Experience (GMIX) program in 1997 in China with 21 students placed in companies ranging
from glass and cement manufacture to cable television. In 2004, 30 GMIX students were in
China studying auto electronics, wireless communications and supply chain logistics. GSB hosted
a 2005 China supply-chain logistics conference in Shanghai, in cooperation with the Hong Kong
University of Science & Technology and Accenture. The GSB also utilizes an active alumni network
in China to recruit MBA candidates for the University.
The U.S.-Asia Technology Management Center (U.S.-ATMC), part of Stanford’s School of Engineering,
sponsors lectures and seminars; faculty research projects; and development of courses
and web site projects, that address technology trends and issues of mutual interest in the U.S.
and Asia. The Center pursues a dual track in its annual lecture series, with separate lectures relating
to technology management (wireless network businesses, cross-border partnering in Asia,
broadband networks in Asia, high-tech entrepreneurship) and advanced technology research
(nanoelectronics, advanced electronics systems integration, advanced sensing technologies and
networks, photonics). U.S.-AMTC projects also link the university and industry, in the U.S. and
Asia. Management seminars have hosted panels of Silicon Valley venture capitalists active in
Asia, and executives such as Taiwan Semiconductor Chairman Morris Chang. While the U.S.-
AMTC was initially focused on Japan, since 2000 it has broadened its focus to include East Asia,
and China in particular.
The Stanford Center for International Development (SCID) was established in 1997. Since 1998
its China program has been managed by deputy director and former World Bank China program
director, Dr. Nicholas Hope. The program emphasizes economic policy reform in China, and
research results are disseminated in policy conferences at Stanford hosted by SCID; at Tsinghua
University in Beijing, with financial support from Goldman Sachs (Asia); and at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong. The economics departments of the respective universities
jointly host the conferences in China with SCID.
In June 2006, SCID’s most recent policy conference had a pan-Asian emphasis, with most attention
focusing on economic policy reform in China and India. Past conferences have covered
such issues as China’s approach to exchange rates, trade and investment, capital flows, antitrust
policy, venture capital, enterprise reform, reform of agriculture and social services, and reform of
the financial system with particular emphasis on banks. Participants have included senior officials