Asia Management and Business Seminar Series

The Advanced Institute of Management Research and the Asia-Pacific Technology Network (APTN) are running a series of seminars focussing on the challenges for business and managers from and in Asia.

The first will be jointly-presented by Professor Simon Collinson (Warwick Business School and AIM Research) and Dr Louis Turner (Chief Executive, APTN) and they will Chair the subsequent seminars.

Seminar 1:
Innovation in India and China: A Threat to the West?
Jaideep Prabhu (AIM Innovation Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)
Krisztián Flautner (Vice President of Research and Development at ARM Ltd)
Stefan Wagstyl (Emerging Markets Editor, Financial Times)

Date: 3 February 2011
Location: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
Timing: Registration from 17.00; seminar from 17.30 - 19.15 (followed by drinks & canapés reception)

Innovation in India and China: A Threat to the West?

Jaideep Prabhu is an AIM Innovation Fellow and the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He is also Director of the Centre for India & Global Business (CIGB) and a Fellow of Clare College.
In this talk he presented data that shows how India and China are increasingly major locations for R&D from the world\'s largest corporations and examine the drivers and consequences of this global shift in R&D foreign direct investment (FDI). When we consider the kinds of R&D being done in these Indian and Chinese labs it raises a number of questions about how these activities and flows of FDI may change in the future.

Prof. Prabhu presented evidence to argue that while the search for talent led the first wave of this phenomenon, the next wave will be based on innovation based on the market needs of these economies. He ended by arguing that such market led innovation has implications not only for emerging markets but also the developed economies as they head into a prolonged age of austerity.

Dr. Krisztián Flautner is the vice president of research and development at ARM. ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products with more than twenty billion processors deployed by late 2010.

He leads a global team which is focused on the understanding and development of technologies relevant to the proliferation of the ARM architecture. The groups activities cover a wide breadth of areas ranging from circuits, through processor and system architectures to tools and software. Key activities are related to high-performance computing in energy-constrained environments. Flautner received a PhD in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan, where he is currently appointed as a visiting scholar. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.

Stefan Wagstyl is the FT\'s emerging markets editor. He has been covering emerging markets for over 20 years, and was previously central and east Europe editor, New Delhi bureau chief, and Tokyo bureau chief for the Financial Times.

APTN Innovation in India and China: A Threat to the West?

Next seminar in this series will take place on 31.03.2011.