An Okinawa company pairs Japanese students with international neighbors and classrooms overseas. Its bet: the distance to a different life can be much shorter than a plane ride.
After a decade in Silicon Valley, Katka Letzing brought an international exchange worker’s instincts to Swiss innovation. Her specialty is getting people with different incentives to agree on something they will actually do.
For ten years, this France-Taiwan startup community has brought founders, industrial players and public institutions into the same room. Its real value lies in what happens after the introductions.