Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Department
USC Marshall School of Business
r.w.koepp.98@cantab.net
Rob Koepp researches and teaches on the subjects of entrepreneurship and innovation and the financial vehicles for supporting these activities, especially as they relate to high-technology and regional economic development. In addition, he has extensive geographic expertise in the management models and financial systems of Greater China and Japan. Along with his work at USC, Koepp serves as a Research Fellow at the Milken Institute, a nonprofit independent economic think tank based in Santa Monica. He is also fluent in English, Chinese (Mandarin), and Japanese.
Koepp is currently at work on a book that examines the emerging financial system of Greater China: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He is also a project manager for a World Bank-sponsored study on the Sustainable Development of High-technology Parks in the Peoples ' Republic of China. He has authored the book Clusters of Creativity: Enduring Lessons on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Silicon Valley and Europe 's Silicon Fen (John Wiley, 2002), which looks at the underpinning dynamics of entrepreneurial and innovative industry clusters from an international perspective. Koepp's written and spoken opinions and analyses also appear in the Los Angeles Times, The Economist publication Business Asia, Singapore 's Business Times, Japan 's Nihon Keizai Shinbun, and such specialized journals as Perspectives on European Business Law, Oxford Economic Forecasting 's International Industry Report, and the European Journal of Engineering for Information Society Applications. Koepp has been a featured commentator on Dow Jones' Asia Business News television network, appearing on the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Mandarin Chinese broadcast Yazhou Shangye Xinwen.
Education:
M.B.A., University of Cambridge
B.A. (Asian Studies), Pomona College
Honors and Awards:
Truman Scholarship
Watson Fellowship