Research and Content 

Relevant Recent Research Papers and publications

Theme: Silicon Valley

• Kushida, Kenji. 2016. “The Impact of the Algorithmic Revolution from Silicon Valley: Fintech, IoT, Cloud Computing, AI…What’s happening now in the US and what will happen in Japan” (シリコンバレー発 アルゴリズム革命の衝撃 Fintech,IoT,Cloud Computing,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). Tokyo, Japan: Asahi Shimbun Press.

• Dasher, Richard, Nobuyuki Harada, Takeo Hoshi, Kenji E. Kushida, Tetsuji Okazaki. (2015) "Institutional Foundation for Innovation-Based Economic Growth." National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA).

• Kushida, Kenji E. 2015. "A Strategic Overview of the Silicon Valley Ecosystem: Toward Effectively "Harnessing" Silicon Valley."

  • Introduction - Silicon Valley Ecosystem Report

  • The Silicon Valley Ecosystem

  • Where is Silicon Valley

  • Startups and Large Firms in the Silicon Valley Ecosystem

  • Financial Systems in Silicon Valley

  • Labor Markets and Employment Systems

  • Roles of Government

  • University-Industry, University-Government Ties

  • Initial Observations of Japanese Firms

Theme: Innovation

• Kushida, Kenji E. 2018. "Artificial Intelligence: The Algorithmic Revolution Driving the Next Industrial Transformation." SVNJ Working Paper Series. 

• Kushida, Kenji E. "Blockchain, a Silicon Valley Vantage on its Potential and Challenges." in The Future of Blockchain: How it will impact finance, industry, and society (Japanese) edited by Yuri Okina, Noriyuki Yanagawa, and Naoyuki Iwashita. Tokyo, Japan: Nihon Keizai Shimbun Shuppan, 2017.

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

• Kushida, Kenji E. 2015. "The Politics of Commoditization in Global ICT Industries: A Political Economy Explanation of the Rise of Apple, Google, and Industry Disruptors."  Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade. doi: 10.1007/s10842-014-0191-3.

• Kushida, Kenji E., Jonathan Murray, and John Zysman. 2015. "Cloud Computing: From Scarcity to Abundance."  Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade. doi: 10.1007/s10842-014-0188-y.

• Zysman, John, Stuart Feldman, Kenji E. Kushida, Jonathan Murray, and Niels Christian Nielsen. "Services with Everything: The ICT-Enabled Digital Transformation of Services." Chapter 4 in The Third Globalization: Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich in the Twenty-First Century? edited by Dan Breznitz and John Zysman. 99-129. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013.

• Kushida, Kenji E., Jonathan Murray, and John Zysman. "Diffusing the Cloud: Cloud Computing and Public Policy." Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 11, no 3. (2011) 209-37.

Theme: Japan's Political Economy

• Kushida, Kenji E. 2018. "Abenomics and Japan's Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Is the Third Arrow Pointed in the Right Direction for Global Competition in the Digital Era of Silicon Valley?" SVNJ Working Paper Series.

• Kushida, Kenji. "Abenomics Third Arrow: Fostering Competitiveness?" in Japan Decides 2017: The Japanese General Election, edited by Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, Ethan Scheiner, and Daniel M. Smith. Cham, Switzerland: Parlgrave Macmillian, 2018. 

• Kushida, Kenji E., Kay Shimizu, and Jean C. Oi, eds. 2013. Syncretism: Corporate Restructuring and Political Reform in Japan. Walter H. Shorenstein Research Center.

  • Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction: Syncretism in Japan's Political Economy Since the 1990s

  • 2. Overview: Japan's Political and Economic Transformations Since the 1990s

Theme: Entrepreneurship and innovation in japan

• Kushida, Kenji. “Departing from Silicon Valley: Japan’s New Startup Ecosystem” in Reinventing Japan: New Directions in Global Leadership, edited by Martin Fackler, Yoichi Funabashi. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2018.

• Kushida, Kenji. 2017. "Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Japan: Why Japan (Still) Matters for Global Competition." SVNJ Working Papers Series. 

• Asakura, Yusuke. 2017. "A Brief Overview of the Current Startup Ecosystem in Japan." SVNJ Working Paper Series. 

• 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, Kenji E. 2012. "Entrepreneurship in Japan's ICT Sector: Opportunities and Protection from Japan's Telecommunications Regulatory Regime Shift." Social Science Japan Journal 15 (1):3-30.

• Kushida, Kenji E. 2011. "Leading without Followers: How Politics and Market Dynamics Trapped Innovations in Japan's Domestic "Galapagos" Telecommunications Sector." Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 11, no. 2: 279-307.

Theme: Industrial and innovation Policy

• Kushida, Kenji E. “The Impact of Digital Technologies on Innovation Policy” in Research Handbook on Digital Transformations, edited by F. Xavier Olleros and Majlinda Zhegu. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016.

• Kushida, Kenji E. and John Zysman."Industrial Policy in a Global, Digital Age." Japan Spotlight, July/Aug 2013: 35-39.

• Kushida, Kenji E. and Phillip Y. Lipscy, eds. 2013. Japan Under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and Governance. Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

• Major research report currently underway

Media and other content

• Silicon Valley Ecosystem Essential Reading List (Updated September 2017)

• Kenji Kushida interview with Musashi Sakai Driving School President Aki Takahashi in Nikkei Business Online. 

• Kenji Kushida interview with Fuji Media Group via Lyve: "Bridging Japan and Silicon Valley." 

• Kushida, Kenji. 2016. "The Algorithmic Revolution that is Transforming Human Activities." Nikkei Business 2/29 Issue.

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

• Kushida, Kenji E., and Martin Kenney. 2014. "Positioning 'Galapagos Japan' in the Cloud World." Nikkei Asian Review.

• Richard Dasher talk at the Foreign Correspondents' Club Japan (FCCJ): "Can Japanese Companies Learn from Silicon Valley's Culture of Open Innovation?"

SVNJ e-books

• Kushida, Kenji E., Yuko Kasuya, Eiji Kawabata. 2016. Information Governance in Japan: Towards a Comparative Paradigm. SVNJ E-Book Series.

Conference reports

• Silicon Valley - New Japan Summit 2018 Final Report

• Break Through: Women in Silicon Valley, Womenomics in Japan Conference Final Report

• Human Autonomy in the Age of Automation: Envisioning 2045 Final Report

Research Team

• Kenji Kushida kkushida@stanford.edu

• Elin Matsumae