Entrepreneurship in China: The Dragon Awakens

Registering a GDP growth of 8% in 2002 amid the global recession, China is poised to move up the technology ladder at a pace unprecedented among nations. Entrepreneurship is beginning to have a profound impact on China's high-tech development. Homegrown startups like Legend and Huawei Technologies, which have long competed capably inside China, have now started to target the breadbaskets of Western technology giants. What's next for the technology business in China? Is there a Chinese method of entrepreneurship that results from differences in culture, market and the role that the Chinese government plays in economic development? As Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen all race to become China's Silicon Valley, which region is most likely to succeed? On these topics and more, the panelists will share perspectives from research undertaken by three Berkeley Mayfield Fellows studying technology entrepreneurship through more than 70 interviews in China, and perspectives from the Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association, the "Churchill Club" of Mainland Born Chinese business leaders.

Featured Panelists:

• Dr. Hong Chen, Chairman & CEO, GRIC Communications; President, Hua Yuan Association of Science and Technology, Panel Moderator
  
• Andrew Isaacs, Executive Director, Management of Technology Program, UC Berkeley
  
• Xiaodong Jiang, Mayfield Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
  
• Amir Sharif, Mayfield Fellow, MBA Candidate, Haas School of Business
  
• Anoop Sinha, Mayfield Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
  
• Dr. Youming Wang, Vice Director-General, Shenzhen Science and Technology Bureau, China