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Hosted by the Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship as part of their High Tech Regions and Value Chain Globalization Seminar Series for Fall 2003
Speakers: Rafiq Dossani
Senior Research Scholar
Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
Rafiq Dossani is a senior research scholar at the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. His current research includes projects on business process outsourcing, innovation and entrepreneurship in information technology in India, the institutional phasing-in of power-sector reform in Andhra Pradesh, and security in the Indian subcontinent. He serves as an advisor to India's Securities and Exchange Board in the area of venture capital reform. His most recent book is Telecommunications Reform in India (2002).
Dossani previously worked for the Robert Fleming Investment Banking group, first as CEO of its India operations and later as head of operations in San Francisco. He has also served as chairman and CEO of a firm on the OTCEI exchange in India, deputy editor of Business India Weekly, and a professor of finance at Pennsylvania State University. He holds a B.A. in economics from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi, India; an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India; and a Ph.D. in finance from Northwestern University.
Martin Kenney
Professor
University of California-Davis
Martin Kenney is a professor in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis and a senior project director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research includes the role and history of the venture capital industry and the development of Silicon Valley.
Kenney's recent books include Understanding Silicon Valley: Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region (2000) and Locating Global Advantage (forthcoming). He has consulted for various governments, companies, the United Nations, and the World Bank. He has been a visiting professor at Cambridge University, Copenhagen Business School, Hitotsubashi University, Kobe University, Osaka City University, and the University of Tokyo. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from San Diego State University and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.