Working on an Appreciative Theory of Economic Change and Development 293.0
Here’s a story of passion and hard work(-in-progress)! (Note: As a work around on the technical constraint between posts and pages in the template, this Post links to the Working Paper that summarizes the status, as work-in-progress, of an appreciative theory of economic change and development for emerging markets.) Please click on this link to [...]
SYNTHESiST Working on an Appreciative Theory of Development 286.0
After two years, SYNTHESiST has moved from just looking at innovation systems and change management at firm- and industry-level into a tentative development framework for emerging markets. Using this Post as main source, I have created a Page entitled An Appreciative Theory of Economic Change and Development under Working Papers on the Sidebar at right. [...]
Social Innovation Digs Deeply Into Markets and Hierarchies 276.0
It is good to be a blogger with just the modest goal of enriching the conversation than to be a PhD student who has to go through the logical labor of a formal review of literature. I can get away with cherry-picking great conclusions from different books, journals and traditions without being locked into formal [...]
Filipinnovation by DOST Starts Measuring Innovation Survey 271.0
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) initiated the project, Filipinnovation, as “a national strategy designed to sustain efforts at achieving a robust economy and a better lie for our people.” On November 26, the DOST, with funding support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada conducted the forum, “Towards an Innovation-led Development [...]
Looking Forward with Pres Aquino on Philippine Development 229.0
As I write this post, I am listening to President Aquino deliver his inaugural speech; indeed an inspiring one as an inaugural speech ought to be. Just institution-building? Yet, from the speech, President Nonoy seems just focused in building, if not re-building, the institutions of a working capitalist democracy – possibly as countervailing powers in [...]
Lessons from the Current Strife in Thailand 212.0
I hope my friend Pun-Arj Chairatana is well. With a PhD in Economics from Sussex, he is proud to be a Red Shirt. And as of this writing, they are shooting Red Shirt protesters in Bangkok. I first met Pun-Arj at the 2009 Asialics in Hongkong. I last met him on April 17 in Taipei [...]
Bass Model Captures Diffusion of Innovation 190.0
Proposal for a new survey metric for innovations from emerging markets Global surveys on innovation are biased for the developed world because they use proxy metrics like patents issued, R&D spending, number of PhD accepted or journal papers published that are taken from the science-oriented and citation-based innovation model that applies well to the developed [...]
Comelec Plans to Reduce Congestion from Clustering are Inadequate 187.0
Res 953 was enacted en banc on 12.22.09 as a complete plan Minute Resolution 953 was promulgated one week before the first Res 8739 General Instructions for the Board of Election Inspectors (GI). If, implemented fully, it can greatly minimize congestion from clustering. Yet, it was not made part of that first GI for the [...]
Emerging Markets Symposium on Health and Healthcare at Oxford 186.0
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 [...]
Being an Automated Elections Observer is Hard Work 185.0
Observing elections is a vocation and profession. Vignettes. IFES and NDI. Vignette 1. I first met Butch Abad, now of the Liberal Party, when he saw a group of us of the Cebu NAMFREL off to Danao City, then dangerous Ramon Durano country, for the snap elections in 1985. Then, we were all observers with [...]
African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development – AJSTID
I am extremely happy to share the news that I have been welcomed as one of 28 associate editors of the AJSTID. The ASJTID is a new peer-reviewed journal focused on science, technology, innovation and development in the emerging nations of Africa. A print of the Table of Contents for the issue pictured above follows.
