From Keiretsu to Startups: Japan’s Push for High Tech Entrepreneurship

2 The Asia/Pacific Research Center (A/PARC) is an important Stanford venue, where faculty and students, visiting scholars, and distinguished business and government leaders meet and exchange views on contemporary Asia and U.S. involvement in the region. A/PARC research results in seminars and conferences, published studies, occasional and discussion papers, special reports, and books. A/PARC maintains an active industrial affiliates and training program, involving more than twenty-five U.S. and Asian companies and public agencies. Members of A/PARC's faculty have held high-level posts in government and business. Their interdisciplinary expertise generates research of lasting significance on economic, political, technological, strategic, and social issues. A. Maria Toyoda is a research scholar with the Institute for International Studies and Stanford Japan Center–Research. Her research interests are the political economy of financial flows and political and economic reform in Japan. She is currently working on projects in both areas, including a new book on global finance, democracy, growth, and welfare. She is also part of a project based in Kyoto, Japan looking at innovation and entrepreneurship in Japan.