International SIG - Japan

International SIG - Japan

The Japan sector of The International SIG is focussed on helping Cambridge Wireless members gain access, knowledge and contacts in the Japanese Market.  It is also a route for Japanese companies to wishing to learn more about the innovations being developed with in Cambridge Wireless community.

This sector is championed by Steve Crane of Business Link Japan.

Steve Crane took a one way flight to Japan in July 2000 with a 2 page business plan and a suitcase full of cash.  By the end of his first year there Steve had set up Teamstudio Japan KK, opened an office in the British Industry Centre, hired a team of 12 local staff, and developed a customer base of 400 Japanese companies. Buoyed by this success, in 2004 Steve established Electronics Link Japan with the mission of helping other UK technology companies to build business in Japan. ELJ has gone on to work with over 40 UK companies helping secure multi million pound business in Japan. In 2009 Steve established Business Link Japan, developing a business model to help Japanese companies enter the UK market and to attract inward investment.

Steve has worked with 40+ UK companies, many of them Cambridge based, and has helped secure license and partner contracts of several million pounds in Japan.

See www.businesslinkjapan.com for more information.