Kick‐off of the Project:
Situation of Start-ups in Japan/China/Republic Korea
February 11 - February 12, 2015
For this workshop the project team from Chongqing, Seoul, Suzhou and Tokyo met to define project outline, research goals and research design as well as the time schedule.
For the project outline see
http://www.dijtokyo.org/research/start-ups_in_asia
Presentations
Day 1 February 11th (Wednesday)
2:00 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.
WHO
Self introduction by collaborating partners
2:45 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.
WHY
Why are start‐ups relevant? For whom are they relevant? What function to they perform? Why agglomerations?
3:45 P.M. - 5:15 P.M.
WHAT
Gaps in the literature, personal interests, our research question(s)
5:30 P.M. - 6:30 P.M.
HOW (first part)
Common focus: What start‐ups (industry, stage, size etc.) Theoretical Methods: qualitative, quantiative,
Common list of core variables/factors to consider
Access to the field to conduct interviews, surveys
Common list of core variables/factors to consider
Access to the field to conduct interviews, surveys
Day 2 February 12th (Thursday)
9:30 A.M. - 10:15 A.M.
SCHEDULE
Internal Defining next steps and milestones
10:30 A.M. - 11:30 A.M.
Start-up research – what data?
Prof. Hiroyuki Okamuro, Hitotsubashi University
11:45 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
Insights from a Japanese entrepreneur
Yu Yamada, Founder and CEO of Ypsilon Group, Co-Founder of Legend Partners