Seminar by Tamane Ozeki

SALA SEMINARI - 1° PIANO, PALAZZO LEVI CASES, VIA DEL SANTO 33, H 12.30

15.03.2018

Seminar by Tamane Ozeki, Osaka City University

Title: Role of University Start-ups for Industry Life Cycle. A case study of the firms engaged in organic light emitting diode technology

Abstract: What is the role of University Start-ups for Industry Life Cycle?  How to target the goals of university start-ups for basic science and technology to be applied for commercialization? How can those start-ups be converted from “a bunch of scientific output” to the profitable knowledge-generating vehicles? This seminar provides discussion regarding those research questions, using two case studies, namely, Cambridge Display Technologies and Universal Display Corporation, the universities start-ups which are engaged in organic light emitting diode technology.

Tamane Ozeki: Associate Professor at Osaka City University in the Graduate School of Creative Cities (to be renamed as Graduate School of Urban Management, specialized in Entrepreneurship & ICT Business in April, 2018).

She holds a PhD. from the University of Tokyo’s Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies. After completion of her undergraduate studies in the Faculty of Economics at Hitotsubashi University, Dr. Ozeki joined the Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ). During her time at the IBJ, Dr. Ozeki gathered vast experiences in financial technology, strategic alliances, and management consulting with foreign-affiliated companies and venture companies. She completed both graduate programs in Financial Strategy MBA and Business Law at Hitotsubashi University. She worked as a Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Yokohama City University and Yamagata University. From 2016, Dr. Ozeki was appointed as Associate Professor at Osaka City University in the Graduate School of Creative Cities.

In 2006, Dr. Ozeki was involved in the establishment and management of dimmi Co., Ltd., and the Kyoto Stem Cell Innovation, Inc. the Stem Cell & Device Laboratory (SCAD) in Kyoto, Japan, both as start-ups from Kyoto University in 2014.