{"id":32088,"date":"2016-03-01T13:10:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=32088"},"modified":"2019-04-30T14:35:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T12:35:11","slug":"the-france-japan-year-of-innovation-is-more-than-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2016\/03\/the-france-japan-year-of-innovation-is-more-than-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The France Japan Year of Innovation is more than mere words"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rudevc_france_japan\"<\/a>Government-sponsored initiatives involving startups and innovation often meet skepticism. I understand because I often tend to be one of the skeptics. It’s a familiar drill. A group of politicians announce with great fanfare some theme of cross-border collaboration, accompanied by numerous platitudes extolling the virtues of entrepreneurship, job creation, etc.<\/p>\n

The official framework here dates back to October, when Messieurs Valls and Macron joined Japan’s Prime Minister Abe in Tokyo to launch the Year of Franco-Japanese Innovation<\/a>. In this case however, I submit that the initiative is concretely starting to bear fruit, on the ground, in both countries’ startup ecosystems.<\/p>\n

Just yesterday for example, a collection of internationally ambitious Japanese entrepreneurs pitched in Tokyo for the chance to participate in Paris’ Hacking de l’H\u00f4tel de Ville<\/a>. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Regional President Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse showcased their charisma here at a preeminent Tokyo startup incubator. Between Hidalgo’s Paris cheerleading and P\u00e9cresse’s impressive Japanese language intro, the message resonated well with the mostly Japanese crowd (chapeaux bas \u00e0 tous les deux!<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Four winning teams received plane tickets to Paris for the March 24th event: Accela, Emotion Intelligence, Up Performa, and Locarise.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, French startups are en route to Japan…<\/h3>\n

Traveling in the opposite direction, tomorrow five gifted French startups will arrive in Fukuoka for the prestigious Dash Camp Summit<\/a> to hobnob with leaders and m&a groups of Japan’s largest tech firms.<\/p>\n

Then next week, some of France’s hottest IoT startups will visit Tokyo in an event co-hosted by Orange Fab Asia and DMM.Make<\/a>, Japan’s largest hardware accelerator. They’ll discuss the challenges, pitfalls, and pleasures of building a connected hardware company.<\/p>\n

Granted, the world is flat, and opportunities are vast. French entrepreneurs: I encourage you to consider Japan in your reflections on international market rollout. Perhaps you prefer to prioritize the U.S., or even Western Europe, a strategy which may also have its merits depending on your sector.<\/p>\n

Japanese entrepreneurs: same goes for you. I encourage you to put France on your radar. You have a fascination with Silicon Valley, and I can understand that. Although I can provide a slew of compelling arguments on the appeal of France<\/a>, I can also accept it if you judge other European countries to be more appropriate for your initial beachhead.<\/p>\n

From a VC’s perspective, the most important thing is that your ambition be global.<\/p>\n

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Government-sponsored initiatives involving startups and innovation often meet skepticism. I understand because I often tend to be one of the skeptics. It’s a familiar drill. A group of politicians announce with great fanfare some theme of cross-border collaboration, accompanied by numerous platitudes extolling the virtues of entrepreneurship, job creation, etc. The official framework here dates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":32090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}