US awards for Science and for Technology and Innovation 335.0
President Obama recently awarded national medals to seven scientific researchers and five technologists and innovators. The awards caught my eye because the Americans separated the medals for science from the medals for technology and innovation. The way the awards are granted and the work accomplished by the medal winners indicate to me the right policy [...]
Creativity lessons from Miles doing a year of shopping from her closet 326.0
Studying Miles’s new blog, “365 Days of Shopping … In My Own Closet,” refreshed my learnings on creativity. Miles was a former student in entrepreneurial finance. This discovery led to a Facebook conversation on creativity that I re-post below and a new friendship as the teacher becomes the student. Miles’s creativity sparkles in her blog [...]
Innovative Entrepreneurship is the Way to Inclusive Development 318.0
To deliver on the second of his four-part set of campaign promises, inclusive development where all participate in growth, President Aquino’s development program must go beyond the focus on public-private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure and also incentivize opportunity-seeking in innovative entrepreneurship. Indeed, PPPs will definitely add to aggregate demand in the mathematical economic planning model, [...]
Public-Private Partnerships will Crowd Out Innovative Entrepreneurship 317.0
I believe that President Aquino administration’s focus on public-private partnerships (PPP) pushes opportunity-seeking by moneyed Filipino capitalists away from innovative entrepreneurship. In the short-term, I understand the Administration’s choice of strategy at this stage based on classical, mathematical macroeconomics. With their franchised deal set up on property-hedged infrastructure projects that are easy for project finance, [...]
Adapting from Google Wallet e-Settlement for the Philippines market 312.0
Google Wallet represents the latest innovative convergence of technologies to improve convenience in electronic settlement. Electronic settlement is one of three necessary legs to complete the chain of e-commerce. The other two are (a) the marketplace where the buy-and-sell transaction takes place and (b) fulfillment that takes care of the delivery leg of what was [...]
Microsoft Fights Back with Skype for Leading-edge Product Innovation 309.0
A face from the past and a pioneer in software venture capital, Anne Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, gave a very insightful interview on Bloomberg yesterday after a big news headlines day in the digital world. All the big news are the result of the leading companies positioning for the product innovation battles of [...]
Manufacturing-Enterprise Resource Planning Enables Plant Productivity 304.0
Implementing the right factory software information systems (ICT) enables productivity for manufacturing firms. ICT is a general purpose technology that, when applied correctly, has been proven to improve productivity. ICT in manufacturing increases productivity in three ways, first by institutionalizing business processes, second by improving coordination among factory functions, and, finally, by hard-wiring empowerment for [...]
Leontief Prize Winners have Much to Share with the Philippines 299.0
The Leontief Prize has been awarded by the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University since 2000 for: outstanding contributions to economic theory that address contemporary realities and support just and sustainable societies. The Leontief Prize winners say many things that are relevant to the Philippines. I first noticed that I had written [...]
