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Posted by m beduya on June 20, 2010 · 2 Comments
Innovation is broadly defined as bringing something new to market successfully. Thus, by definition, successful innovation – be it from technology or from new ways of organizing work – have people as its subject and object. In turn, successful innovation is the best and sustainable way to create value-added from total factor productivity (TFP) that [...]
Posted by m beduya on June 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
At its barest essence, innovation means bringing something new to market successfully. On February 18, 2009, Knowledge at Wharton, of the U Penn (Image at left has link.), in cooperation with Nightly Business Report of the PBS published the findings of a survey that identified the top innovations in A World Transformed: What are the [...]
Posted by m beduya on May 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Lopez-owned Power Plant Mall is designed to be friendly to the vulnerable sector. Unlike the Comelec that is mandated to be likewise friendly to the vulnerable sector but cannot seem to implement uniformly, the Mall must have been designed with the sector in mind though without being marketed just as a place for the [...]
Posted by m beduya on March 14, 2010 · 1 Comment
Now I can post about it! A welcome change on a Sunday. The spacious library-lobby at the Green Templeton College conference center welcomed me and about 40 other participants at the Emerging Markets Symposium (EMS) on Health and Healthcare held at Oxford University, England in December 2009. To encourage discussion, the participants were bound by [...]
Filed under Changes in Demographics and Lifestyle say from Growth, Aging and Urbanization, Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Health and Medical Care, Learning and Teaching, Social Enterprise and Innovations, Social Innovation · Tagged with change management, emerging markets, innovation, Khryss Cristobal, Social Innovation
Posted by m beduya on February 4, 2010 · 1 Comment
The scan-adapt-diffuse approach to technology acquisition. Consumers’ desire for healthier food creates opportunities for the enterprising innovator. A more sedentary lifestyle especially in the developed world and increasingly so in emerging markets makes a sodium-rich diet a high risk of cardiovascular disease. The major source of sodium in our diet is salt so that it [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Demographics and Lifestyle say from Growth, Aging and Urbanization, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with adaptive research, change management, emerging markets, innovation, innovative entrepreneurship, opportunity-seeking, product development, product innovation
Posted by m beduya on December 9, 2009 · 1 Comment
Borders at Charing Cross Road is Closing Down Total Liquidation. Borders, a bookstore and an American import into London, is closing its branch at 120 Charing Cross Road. Is it a sign of the times that a knowledge-based business like book selling has become a victim to both the financial crisis and the migration of [...]
Posted by m beduya on September 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Noynoy Aquino has announced his candidacy for President and mentions Rep Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel of party-list Akbayan as possible candidate for Senator. From yesterday’s post , this indicates a strategic alliance of sorts between two of four key factions in Philippine society. On one hand, if the formal agreement was reached with Akbayan, this is a [...]
Posted by m beduya on September 8, 2009 · 1 Comment
Imagine the New Filipino Homebound, not outbound Competitive, not complacent Global perspective, not regional mindset Renegades, not robots It is not difficult to imagine what we can achieve in the world as Filipinos, and this is my take, if we have more young leaders like the speakers, the host, the reactor, the organizers and the [...]
Posted by m beduya on August 2, 2009 · 3 Comments
National Innovation Systems (NIS) generally have three parts: Firms (industry), Universities (academe) and the Government (RTO). Depending on the political economy traditions of each country, their roles are set up differently. The Philippines needs to path-create a custom-made NIS to find its way out towards strong growth.
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Changes in Demographics and Lifestyle say from Growth, Aging and Urbanization, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Learning and Teaching, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Bengt-Ake Lundvall, DUI-Learning, innovative entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation, National Innovation Systems, Research & Technology Organizations, STI-Learning, University
Posted by m beduya on June 8, 2009 · 3 Comments
(Start of Part 2 of 3) Sugar replacement is an opportunity created by lifestyle, health and demographic changes. Yet to gain the benefit from this opportunity is not as easy as taking sugar out and replacing it with any sweetener. A lot of science (and art, too) in adaptive research is needed to Scan-Adapt-and-Diffuse (from [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Changes in Demographics and Lifestyle say from Growth, Aging and Urbanization, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Mashups - Technology-enabled · Tagged with adaptive research, appropriate technology, change management, demographic change, intensive learning, Opportunity, product innovation, scan-adapt-diffuse, STI-Learning
Posted by m beduya on June 2, 2009 · 2 Comments
For the Philippines, I see three types of naturally-hedged investment opportunities. While not totally freed from systemic or global problems like the current crisis, they still provide lower risks than the usual businesses. The first type that I remember from when I was working in project finance twenty years ago are hotels and tourist-oriented projects. [...]
