Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Opportunities for U.S.-Japan Cooperation

Feb. 28 - As part of the U.S.-Japan Dialogue to Promote Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Job Creation, the U.S. Department of State and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry organized a symposium on "Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Opportunities for U.S.-Japan Cooperation" at Stanford University on Feb. 23 to examine how entrepreneurship and venture companies contribute to economic growth, as well as to share views on opportunities for private sector cooperation between Japan and the United States in emerging sectors such as clean technology. U.S. and Japanese government representatives subsequently convened a second meeting of the Dialogue on Feb. 24, also at Stanford. [State Department Media Note]