This was a fantastic and productive year for the Stanford Silicon Valley - New Japan Project. Momentum in Japan has gained for successfully “harnessing” Silicon Valley, and in Silicon Valley, the status of Japan has risen to the highest levels in at least 15 years. We firmly believe that Stanford SV-NJ provides a unique set of contributions to bridging the ecosystems of Japan and Silicon Valley. Our big event of the year, co-hosted by our strategic partner Ishin, was the “Silicon Valley - New Japan Summit 2016,” which revealed these forces: over 400 people gathered at the Alumni Center at Stanford, with over one hundred Japanese firms and approximately sixty Silicon Valley startups. With the morning as panels with large Japanese companies working successfully with startups, and startup pitches, and the afternoon session devoted to business matching with startups putting out booths, this was the biggest direct business matching

event (without Venture Capitalists as an intermediary) in the Bay Area between Japanese companies and Silicon Valley startups that I know of. Our Stanford SV-NJ Public Forum Series with networking hosted a variety of exciting speakers, many of whom have not appeared elsewhere in talks around Silicon Valley or in Japan, but who provide valuable in-depth vantages into Japan’s startup ecosystem, harnessing Silicon Valley, or understanding entrepreneurship and technology issues. All of our public forum series are video recorded and available online at the website. We were particularly active in research, a core component of Stanford SV-NJ. I was delighted to publish a book in Japanese, aimed at a general audience providing a brief overview of the Silicon Valley ecosystem, incorporated into an argument about how software algorithms capturing an increasing range of human activity is the driving force behind areas such as

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Stanford SV-NJ Project

The Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project, part of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Japan Program was launched in 2014 as there has been by a heightened interest in Silicon Valley as an innovation system. The interest is not only in Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurism, but how entrepreneurship fits into the broader economic structure. Over the past few years, Silicon Valley has witnessed a new wave of Japanese startups (entrepreneurs, successful startups from Japan). This trend has occurred within the context of increased importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in Japan. A key challenge is not simply to try to duplicate the ecosystem, but to figure out how large firms, fast-growing large startups, and emerging startups can “harness” the Silicon Valley ecosystem.

R e s e a r c h a n d P r o g r a m A c t i v i t i e s

Program activities include a Public Forum Series with networking, outreach symposia and conferences, policy research and implementation as well as research and public output. The mission of the Project is to provide the intellectual background, analytical perspectives, and create knowledge and research while becoming a platform for dense interpersonal relations to enable Silicon Valley to benefit from Japan, and for Japan to better harness Silicon Valley.

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Fintech, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and others, enabled by a transformation of computing power from a scarce to an abundant resource. We also published several academic papers, book chapters, and working papers on topics such as the Japan’s startup ecosystem, the impact of digital technologies on innovation policy, and an edited academic volume, “Information Governance in Japan: Towards a New Comparative Paradigm,” in partnership with scholars from the US and Japan, co-edited by colleagues from Keio University and Minnesota State University. We also supported one of our research partners, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, in publishing several working papers dealing with the platform economy and other relevant and timely topics. We would like to highlight our case study series underway, focusing on Japanese startups in Silicon Valley. We are building a database of startups that had one or more Japanese citizens in the founding team, which were founded in, or have a significant presence in Silicon Valley. We are publishing brief case studies through interviews on our website to contribute to the knowledge base of Japanese entrepreneurship, and this year we were able to publish 11 cases, with many more currently underway. Special thanks to Tomohisa Kunisawa for joining us during the summer. As a university project, we are not actively seeking media attention, but

SV-NJ activities and researchers did appear in media outlets such as Forbes Online, San Francisco Chronicle, NHK World, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Nikkei Business, and of course from our strategic partners Ishin (Venture Tsushin and Tech Tsushin) and BaySpo. In our outreach activities, we strive to take many of the insights and findings by being at the nexus of Stanford University, Silicon Valley, and Japan’s startup ecosystem and large firms attempting to harness Silicon Valley, and disseminate these to a broad audience. Public seminar series in Tokyo through the Canon Institute of Global Studies, public symposia with Keio University’s Media Design School, talk at the Institute of Global Economic in Korea and the Korea Development Institute, and a panel at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC were some highlights. Others included orchestrating a panel at the Japan New Economy Summit in April on Biomedical innovation, in which we invited two promising entrepreneurs and moderated the panel, judging the Tokyo regional startup pitch contest for the Startup World Cup hosted by Fenox VC, moderating a panel at GSV Labs put on by NEDO, orchestrating a panel on Finch at the US-Japan Council annual meeting, and presenting at the Trilateral Commission in Rome. We also played a significant role in planning a conference at Stanford, “Womenomics, the workplace, and women: Stanford Silicon Valley US- Japan Dialogue 2016” aimed at learning

Stanford Silicon Valley - New Japan Project

Core MembersRichard Dasher

Takeo HoshiKenji E. Kushida

Kanetaka M. MakiJaclyn Selby

StaffMeiko Kotani

Elin MatsumaeAmanda Stoeckicht

lessons in both directions, going beyond the US simply telling Japan what to do. With Silicon Valley facing significant gender balance challenges while providing opportunities through creative personnel practices, the intent was for learning to go in both directions. Many of the participants from Silicon Valley and Japan’s startup ecosystem were from networks built through SV-NJ, and we are currently working on concrete policy recommendations to Japan that came out of a closed workshop following the open symposium. One of our goals is to become a platform for knowledge creation and to support researchers who may not necessarily be researching Japan, but whose research can be enhanced by ties to Japan. We were delighted to have Kanetaka Maki, now an Assistant Professor at the International Graduate Institute for Policy Studies as a postdoc for six months from 2015 to March 2016, and we have welcomed Dr. Jaclyn Selby as a research scholar who researches competitive dynamics in high tech and media industries, emphasizing innovation, startups and intellectual property. My sincerest personal thanks to our hardworking staff who make this program possible: Amanda Stoeckicht, Meiko Kotani, and Elin Matsumae. Finally, our heartfelt gratitude to the corporate supporters of Stanford SV-NJ that make our activities possible. At the Diamond level: Kozo Keikaku Engineering, Future Architect; at the

Platinum level: Komatsu, Mistletoe; at the Gold level: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, NEDO, World Innovation Lab; and at the Silver Level: ANA, Development Bank of Japan, KPMG Azsa, Mitsubishi Corporation, Rakuten, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Techfirm Group; and strategic partners: BaySpo, Ishin, and Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. We hope you had a wonderful year, and look forward to sharing another successful year with you in 2017.

Public Forum SeriesApproximately once a month, the Stanford SV-NJ Project holds public forums that explore issues of interest relat-

ing to innovation, entrepreneurship, and the Silicon Valley – New Japan relationship. This year’s topics ranged from Scaling Startups and Preferred Stock financing to Corporate venture and business development. Videos of all

our public forums this year are available online.

Is Financial Inclusion only an emerging markets, bottom-of-the-pyramid problem or is it also a challenge for the middle class and in developed countries too? December 5, 2016Anju Patwardhan, Fulbright Fellow at Stanford University and Partner with CreditEase[Video]

Do Startups Learn When They Fail? Using Crowdfunding Data to Compare When and If Entrepreneurs Learn From Experience and ObservationNovember 2, 2016Jaclyn Selby, Research Scholar, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Japan Program[Video]

Patterns of Harnessing Silicon Valley: Impact of When (Only) the CEO and VP of a Tokyo Company Live in Sili-con ValleyOctober 14, 2016Noriyuki Matsuda, Founder & CEO, SOURCENEXT Corporation[Video]

Corporate Venture Capital in Japan: Challenges and FutureSeptember 28, 2016Nobuhiko Hibara, Associate Professor, Waseda University[Video]

Zero to One and One to Ten: The Art of Starting a Startup and ScalingJune 15, 2016Akiko Naka, Founder and CEO, Wantedly, Inc[Video]

Managing Open Innovation: Lessons from Harnessing Silicon ValleyMay 23, 2016Joanna Drake Earl, General Partner, Core Ventures GroupGen Isayama, Co-Founder and CEO, World Innovation LabKenji Kushida, Research Scholar, Stanford UniversityDavid Swanson, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, SAP Success-Factors[Video]

Big Data: Lesson From the FieldMay 18, 2016Gaurav Kataria, head of Product Adoption Google for Work[Video]

A Sharing Economy for Childcare in JapanMay 3, 2016Keiko Koda, Founder and CEO of AsMama Inc.Brought to you by the US-Asia Technology Management Center's Spring Seminar Series and jointly sponsored with the Silicon Valley-New Japan Project.

Korea Entrepreneurship Update: Current Trends & DynamicsApril 26, 2016David Chang, President and CEO, Conifer Networks, and former Chairman, Korea IT Net-workYong Suk Lee, SK Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford UniversityCatharina Min, Vice Chair of Firmwide Business & Finance and Partner, ReedSmith LLPBrought to you by the US-Asia Technology Management Center's Spring Seminar Series and jointly sponsored with the Silicon Valley-New Japan Project.

Back to the Source: Yamaha Motor’s Challenges on Business DevelopmentMarch 8, 2016Hiro Saijou, CEO and Managing Director, Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley Inc.[Video]

Understanding Investors and Preferred Stock Financings in Silicon ValleyFebruary 23, 2016Joseph Z. Perkins, Partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP[Video]

Chronicles of the Silicon Valley- Japan Relationship and Lesson Learned: An Insider’s View of Large Firms, Startup Firms, and Entrepreneurs Since the 1970s

February 3, 2016Masa Ishii, Managing Director of AZCA, Inc and Visiting Professor, WASEDA Business School; Graduate School of Engineering, Shizuoka University[Video]

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Research and PublicationsIn 2016 saw the project produce a significant number of publications and research content from its activities.

The Stanford SV-NJ project research partnership with the Berkley Roundtable on the International economy also yielded several working papers (included below).

Kushida, Kenji. "Japan's Startup Ecosystem: From Brave New World to Part of Syncretic "New Japan" ". Asian Research Policy 7, no. 1 (2016): 67-77.

Kushida, K. E. (2016). “The Impact of Digital Technologies on Innovation Policy.” in Re-search Handbook on Digital Transformations. F. X. Olleros and M. Zhegu. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar: 354-379.

Kushida, Kenji E. 2016. "The Algorithmic Revolution Driving Business Disruptions: Beyond the Buzzwords." Prepared for the Trilateral Commission Plenary, Rome 2016.

Kushida, Kenji E. 2016. "The Algorithmic Revolution behind the "Sharing Economy”: a Silicon Valley vantage.” The Canon Institute for Global Studies.

Kenji Kushida, Yuko Kasuya, Eiji Kawabata, ed.“Information Governance in Japan: Towards a New Comparative Paradigm” (SV-NJ e-Book series)

• Introduction (Kenji E. Kushida, Yasuko Kasuya, Eiji Kawabata)• Part 1: Government

• Access to Governmental Information in Japan: Enactment Timing, Legal Strength, and Enforcement of the 1999 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (Yuko Kazuya, Keio University

• Open Data in Japan: Cultural tensions Behind Policy Foundation (Tomoaki Watanabe, International University of Japan)

• Archives and Public Records Management (Takashi Koga, Tenri University)

• Part II: Economy• Does Mandatory Quarterly Financial Reporting Affect Corporate

Investment Behavior? (Tetsuyuki Kagaya, Hitotsubashi University)• Governing and Protecting Information in Intellectual Property Law -

Information Governance and Trade Secrets (Christopher Rademacher, Waseda University)

• Governing ICT Networks Versus Governing the Information Econ-omy: How Japan Discovered the Dilemma of Winning in the ICT Infrastructure Race (Kenji E. Kushida, Stanford University)

• Part III: Politics and Society• Cyber Security Governance in Japan: Two Strategies and a Basic Law (Motohiro Tsuchiya, Keio University) • Privacy Governance in Japan (Eiji Kawabata, Minnesota State University)• False Dawn: The War on Watchdog Journalism in Japan (David McNeill)• Information Governance and Election Campaigning in Japan: The Public Offices Election Law in Historical

and Comparative Perspective (Laurie Anne Freeman, UC Santa Cruz)

Kushida, Kenji E. 2016.“シリコンバレー発アルゴリズム革命の衝撃：Fintech,IoT,CloudComputing,AI、アメリカで起

きていること、これから日本で起こること.”朝日新聞出版. (The Impact of the Algorithmic Revolution from Silicon ValleyFintech, IoT, Cloud Computing, AI... What's happening now in the US and what will happen in Japan")

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From Stanford SV-NJ research partner, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE)

BRIE Working Paper 2016-3. “The Next Phase in the Digital Revolution: Platforms, Abundant Computing; Growth and Employment“. John Zysman and Martin Kenney (2016).

BRIE Working Paper 2016-7. “Exploring the Marker-Industrial Revolution: Will the future of production be local?“. Anna Waldman Brown (2016).

BRIE Working Paper 2016-6. “Mobile Internet Business Models in China: Vertical Hierarchies, Horizontal Conglomer-ates, or Business Groups?“. Kai Jia and Martin Kenney (2016).

BRIE Working Paper 2016-2. “Product-centric Information Management: A Case Study of a Shared Platform with Blockchain Technology“. Juri Mattila, Timo Seppälä and Jan Holmström (2016).

Stanford SV-NJ in Media

Forbes Online, Third Time Could be a Charm for Silicon Valley and Japan • http://www.forbes.com/sites/phillipkeys/2016/12/01/third-time-could-be-the-charm-for-silicon-valley-and-

japan/#3687287e245b

Logstar, • https://www.logstar.jp/posts/47

SF Chronicle, Yahoo Japan’s Future Still Looks Bright - unlike its U.S. Counterpart• http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Unlike-its-U-S-counterpart-Yahoo-Japan-s-7465980.php?t=214c1b6d5d

9c45373f&cmpid=twitter-premium

NHK World, Global Agenda, Silicon Valley and the Future of Innovation• http://www.nhk.or.jp/globalagenda/archive/08.html

Tech Tsuishin, • http://www.tech-tsushin.jp/interview/vt62_specialtalk/

Nikkei, • http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXKZO08990050R31C16A0X12000/

Nikkei Business,• http://business.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/NBD/15/093000009/021900025/?ST=pc

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シリコンバレーは世界への門 日本人もその扉を開け  

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人の活動を変える「アルゴリズム革命」

Outreach and Conferences

Silicon Valley - New Japan Summit 2016: Activating Silicon Valley Startup-Japan Connections

The Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project (SV-NJ) held the inaugural Silicon Valley-New Japan Summit 2016: Activating Silicon Val-ley Startup-Japan Connections, in partnership with Ishin USA and their media project, The SV Startups 100, on October 4, 2016 at Stanford Univer-sity. The conference focused on knowledge deepening, networking, and business matching between Japanese corporations and Silicon Valley startups. The morning featured panel discussions from Honda, Skycatch,

Komatsu, and Drivemode, Silicon Valley startup pitches from companies such as CBinsights, Coinbase, and RocketSpace, and a keynote. The afternoon was a business matching event, with tables of startups to facilitate business development. Over 50 Silicon Val-ley startups participated and over 400 people attended the event.

Outreach and Conferences

• January 25, Canon Institute of Global Studies, Japan• January 26, Public Symposium with Keio Media Design School, Japan• March 10, Japanese Pitch Night, Silicon Valley• April 7-8, New Economy Summit (NEST) 2016, Japan• April 15-17, Rome Trilateral Commission, Italy• September 21, Canon Institute of Global Studies, Japan• September 21, Start-up World Cup, Japan• October 28, Institute of Global Economics, Korea• November 14, US-Japan Council, Silicon Valley• November 17, Tokyo Foundation, Japan• December 1-2, Korea Development Institute, Korea• December 12, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C.

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In November 2016, we held a two day event, Womenomics, the Workplace, and Women which focused on the issue of women leadership and women’s positions in the Japanese workforce and society, with the objective to bring issues to the table and explore concrete mechanisms by which government policy, business practices, and social factors can be influences to make concrete progress for women's leadership and participation in Japan. The first day of the event was a public conference with panel discussions with a variety of speakers including entrepreneurs, policy mak-ers, and researchers from both the US and Japan. The second day was a closed door session and focused on delving into the questions and challenges raised by the panels on Day 1 as well as forming concrete proposals/policy recommendations on how to address those issues. The event was sponsored by the US-Japan Foundation (USJF), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and Stanford Univer-sity's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (S-APARC) and Clayman Institute for Gender Research.

Womenomics, the Workplace, and Women: Stanford Silicon Valley US-Japan Dialogue

Case Studies

Case studies of the following start-ups are available with more underway.

• 1DollarScan

• ChatWork

• Drivemode

• Gengo

• Mercari

• SanBio

• SmartNews

• Treasure Data

• VALUENEX

• Vufine

• WHILL

The Stanford Silicon Valley – New Japan Project case studies are motivated by the observation that there were few systematic analyses of Japanese startups in Silicon Valley. By gathering cases, we hope to identify useful experiences

and lower the bar for new waves of entrepreneurs and startups from Japan.

LIST OF JAPANESE STARTUPS IN SILICON VALLEYJapanese Startups in Silicon Valley

DEFINING “JAPANESE STARTUPS IN SILICON VALLEY”

We define the “Japanese startups in Silicon Valley” to be the for-profit business entities that satisfy all the following three conditions:

1) At least one of the founders held Japanese citizenship when the entity was established.

2) The entity is venture capital financed or potentially attractive to ven-ture capitalists

3) The entity has an office in Silicon Valley, which is defined to include the broader Silicon Valley, encompassing Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Fran-cisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties.

SupportersWe thank all the Stanford SV-NJ supporters for their onging contributions and collaboration.

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Along with its core members Richard Dasher, Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center (left), Takeo Hoshi, Director of the Japan Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (center), and Kenji Kushida, Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project Leader and Research Scholar at the Shorenstein APARC Japan Program (right), the Stanford SV-NJ Project welcomed several scholars throughout 2016.

Kanetaka Maki, Ph.D. who is currently an Assistant Professor and the International Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, Japan joined Stanford SV-NJ for one year and contributed to project research on university-industry technology transfer, science policy, and entrepre-neurship.

Jaclyn Selby, Ph.D. joined the project in October as a full-time Re-search Scholar. Her research revolves around competitive dynamics in high tech and media industries, emphasizing innovation, startups, and intellectual property.

Tomohisa Kunisawa, (center) MA candidate at Columbia University joined the program during the summer.

Program StaffMeiko Kotani (Left)Amanda Stoeckicht (Center)Elin Matsumae (Right)