Date:
Thursday, December 7, 2006.
4:15 PM.<BR/>
Location: Skilling Auditorium, Stanford University<BR/><BR/>
<p>Richard Dasher</p>
<p>Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center Executive Director, Center for Integrated Systems</p>
<p>Abstract:</p>
<p>This presentation positions intellectual property management issues within the larger context of patterns of business interaction in U.S. and Asian business cultures. It addresses differences in negotiation practices, the dynamics of contract implementation and other business relationships, corporate governance, and strategies for establishing trust and maintaining win-win solutions to the intellectual property challenges that confront technology businesses in Asia.</p>
<p>Speaker Bio:</p>
<p>Dr. Dasher has been Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center since 1994 and Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Systems since 1998. In 2004, he became the first non-Japanese person ever invited to join the senior management of a Japanese national university, when he agreed to serve as an outside board director of Tohoku University. Dr. Dasher is currently also a board director of the 3-D chip company ZyCube Inc. (Tokyo, Japan). In addition, he serves as advisor to several nonprofit organizations and start-up companies in the Bay Area, and to various Stanford student-run organizations. Previously, he was board director of two Japanese companies in Tokyo (1990-93) and Director of the U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute advanced language and area training centers in Yokohama, Japan, and Seoul, Korea (1986-90). </p>
<p> </p>
<p>He received the Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University; he is co-author of the book "Regularity in Semantic Change" (Cambridge University Press, 2002) as well as the author of academic papers on technology management topics. </p><BR/>
Thursday, December 7, 2006.
4:15 PM.<BR/>
Location: Skilling Auditorium, Stanford University<BR/><BR/>
<p>Richard Dasher</p>
<p>Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center Executive Director, Center for Integrated Systems</p>
<p>Abstract:</p>
<p>This presentation positions intellectual property management issues within the larger context of patterns of business interaction in U.S. and Asian business cultures. It addresses differences in negotiation practices, the dynamics of contract implementation and other business relationships, corporate governance, and strategies for establishing trust and maintaining win-win solutions to the intellectual property challenges that confront technology businesses in Asia.</p>
<p>Speaker Bio:</p>
<p>Dr. Dasher has been Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center since 1994 and Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Systems since 1998. In 2004, he became the first non-Japanese person ever invited to join the senior management of a Japanese national university, when he agreed to serve as an outside board director of Tohoku University. Dr. Dasher is currently also a board director of the 3-D chip company ZyCube Inc. (Tokyo, Japan). In addition, he serves as advisor to several nonprofit organizations and start-up companies in the Bay Area, and to various Stanford student-run organizations. Previously, he was board director of two Japanese companies in Tokyo (1990-93) and Director of the U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute advanced language and area training centers in Yokohama, Japan, and Seoul, Korea (1986-90). </p>
<p> </p>
<p>He received the Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University; he is co-author of the book "Regularity in Semantic Change" (Cambridge University Press, 2002) as well as the author of academic papers on technology management topics. </p><BR/>