Professor Jie Wang is Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness. The seminar focused on a new interdisciplinary approach in entrepreneurship and management research for sustainable development and innovation – “informatics for interdisciplinary research and education.” Professor Wang emphasized the importance of globally cross-cultural learning – “smart learning” – for innovation-driven sustainable development.
He presented two case studies of high-tech companies dealing with adaptive learning and cross-systems learning in knowledge management and innovation. The presentation generated a lot of discussions on the role of disruptive technology and innovations for sustainable development.
The seminar ended in a broader interactive conversation on ancient Chinese wisdom based decision making vs. Western analysis based decision making. The roundtable filled a much appreciated need to discuss global cross-cultural learning and thus inaugurated the activities of our Emerging Markets Cross-Cultural Research Group.
