International Tech Transfer

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International Tech Transfer

• David Rosenburg
• Cloning Silicon Valley
• Reuters (Person Education), 2002

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SV not 128

• Regional AdvantageCulture and Competition in
  Silicon Valley and Route 128, AnnaLee Saxenian,
  1994, Harvard Press
• 128 -autarkies proprietary knowledge, self
  sufficiency
• SV- Webs between entreprenuers, universities,
  VCs
• The SV model performs many functions outside of a
  formal group and draw on greater resources and
  enjoy greater flexability
• IP is shared widely, from a lunch break to a
  strategic alliance
• Employees move from company to company
• New firms are spun out of old ones
• SV based on two principles proximity, and speed
• SV subcontract everything you can

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Clones

• 105 areas
• Wired magazine found 46 worthy of rating
• Only 6 countries outside of US scored
  consistently in the top third
• Britain
• Finland
• Israel
• India
• Singapore
• Taiwan

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Rosenburg Scale (Reuters)
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Singapore

• 24,000 per capital GDP
• Economic growth 8 per year for 40 years
• Heritage Foundation worlds second freest economy
• IMD 2nd most competitive economy
• Economists Intelligence Unit 6 global business
  environments

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How did they do it?

• One of the worlds most hospitable places for
  multinational companies
• Future needs
• older industries up the value chain
• better educated workforce
• better infrastructure
• transform disciplined team-players into free
  thinking, risk taking entrepreneurs
• tech-savvy financiers
• create regulatory environment friendly to small
  growing businesses
• reduce barriers to imported labor

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Next move

• Singapore is now too wealthy and educated for low
  value added industries
• How does a tiny county (250 square miles) create
  a Knowledge Based Economy KBE?
• Develop a virtual model of Silicon Valley
• Singapore will be the nerve center
• Network cluster that stretches from Korea to
  Australia

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Shared Understanding

• Singapore is one big technology cluster
• Broadband is king
• High speed Internet and Multi media to every home
• Networking creates wealth not teamwork
• See Japan as too insular and culturally unfit for
  a cluster approach

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Shared purpose

• Government and industry agree
• Share labor resources of surrounding countries
• Set up back offices in low cost Malaysia
• Import management and technical talent from China
  and India
• Venture capital encouraged to invest outside the
  country
• Create 175 telecom service providers in 7 months
• China is the market

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Challenges

• Workforce is not Singaporeans and they are too
  obedient
• Only 2 think of starting their own business
• The existing work force cannot conceive of what
  might be, only what is Jeff Goh CEO Lightspeed
  Technologies
• They have 90,000 IT professional and they will
  need 130,000 more over the next 5 years
• Ciscos Asian IT work force is in Singapore and
  it rotates on a monthly as needed basis.
  Targeting High Schools
• Rote to Ruin

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Taiwan

• Taiwanese companies dont start as local players
  before expanding into global markets they begin
  as cogs in a global high-tech machine whose motor
  is the US.
• A huge portion of the Taiwan entrepreneurial
  class did their graduate training and worked in
  the US before taking their skills and connections
  back home

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Taiwan

• Excellence in Education
• Licensing from abroad
• Grew a venture capital community
• Highly integrated into Silicon Valley
• Education
• 15 of all Taiwanese university graduates have
  done advanced work in the US.
• 3600 high tech SVrs have returned home
• 169 active VCs control 3.73B
• some funds invest up to 15 in the U.S.
• Provides access to the Taiwan Stock Exchange

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Challenges

• 19th on IDC IT rating
• Rote to Ruin