Posted by admin on March 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
This hardy Filipino-fabricated machine is cause for cheer I could hardly contain my excitement at seeing a Filipino-fabricated rotary filler being set up yesterday – a working product from the minuscule Philippine machinery industry is on the ground before me! YAY! as my young friends shout. And LOL with that. Fighting against economic policies like [...]
Filed under Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with adaptive research, Apolinario Mabini, ASIALICS, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, competence-building, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, innovation, innovative entrepreneurship, intensive learning, National Innovation Systems, Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Philippines, reverse engineering, scan-adapt-diffuse, STI-Learning
Posted by admin 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 admin on January 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment
McCormick innovates in marketing traditional spices In the consumer space, massive Mc Cormick who truthfully prides itself as the “global leader in the manufacture, marketing and distribution of spices, seasonings and flavors to the entire food industry” has always been very creative in marketing what are essentially commodities. McCormick passes the true test of market [...]
Posted by admin on January 11, 2010 · 1 Comment
Let us stop flagellating ourselves with negative news From 2005, Goldman Sachs identified the Philippines as one of eleven countries “that could potentially have a BRIC-like impact in rivalling the G7.” More recently, in September 2009, the FTSE Global Equity Index Series classified the Philippines as one of seventeen secondary emerging countries with regards to [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, Health and Medical Care, Information and Communication, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain Logistics and Transport · Tagged with adaptive research, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Clayton Christensen, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, increasing returns, innovation, Joseph Schumpeter, late-comers, National Innovation Systems, Philippines, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, STI-Learning
Posted by admin on December 31, 2009 · 1 Comment
With technical innovation, North Luzon has great potential Seeing the wind farm at Bangui, Ilocos Norte, I imagined twenty, one-legged Martian machines marching as in HG Wells “The War of the Worlds.” The wind turbines are benign, though, providing 33MW of power, a fourth of Ilocos Norte’s needs. Going around and talking to people, I [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Books and Journals, Changes in Environment and Need for Sustainability, Changes in Regulation and Policy with Transparency and Empowerment, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Energy Water and Environment, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with adaptive research, change management, emerging markets, Green energy, innovation, Philippines, W Brian Arthur, zanjera
Posted by admin on December 14, 2009 · 1 Comment
Pret a Manger and Nespresso deliver both at the same time Freshly prepared espresso from a Nespresso Gemini, pictured at left, and a sandwich from Pret a Manger comprise a quick and good meal for a harried Londoner at a relatively affordable cost of about ₤4.00 (₱280.00). Note the crema foaming! Both represent innovations in [...]
Posted by admin on December 7, 2009 · 1 Comment
Intimidating at first; yet easy in the end I am done at Oxford and getting into London today. And I shall miss Flavia. She may have been Italian; but I never bothered to check. She intimidated even some of the geniuses around me! Maybe because she was so new; one often does not see someone [...]
Posted by admin on December 5, 2009 · 1 Comment
Qatar AIrways serves up a less allergenic and Halal version Kare-kare is a north Philippine dish normally made with peanut sauce and served with bagoong, a fermented shrimp product. The Qatar Airways kare-kare was made out of well-cooked beef and tasted similar to the original even without the peanut sauce; or maybe the high altitude [...]
Posted by admin on October 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Tiny Tatua dives deep into milk to regularly deliver large payouts Tatua Cooperative Dairy Co Ltd of New Zealand shows another approach to adjacency. Instead of moving to an adjacent application (like BYD), Tatua dives deep into milk fractions and derives a more valuable mix of products to consistently return better payouts to its cooperative [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with adjacency, change management, competence-building, DUI-Learning, innovative entrepreneurship, intensive learning, process innovation, product development
Posted by admin on August 8, 2009 · 1 Comment
SALT or Sloping Agricultural Land Technology is an innovation in agro-forestry developed in the 70’s to help stop erosion and rejuvenate our deforested slopes. The benefits to the country of its successful diffusion in terms of agricultural productivity and alleviating climate change effects are monumental. STI learning on agro-forestry for erosion prevention is ready to [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Changes in Environment and Need for Sustainability, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Energy Water and Environment, Financing of Innovation, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Afforestation, agro-forestry, black pepper, BSFil, change management, coffee, deforestation, emerging markets, flemingia, gliricidia, ipil-ipil, madre de cacao, Nestle, Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Philippines, sloping agricultural land technology, STI-Learning
Posted by admin on August 5, 2009 · 1 Comment
The question, “If the financial returns are so good, why is everybody not doing it?” is a fair one to ask with black pepper as well as with coffee. BSFil Technologies has done the science and the practice (in a long-standing pilot farm) with black pepper (Piper Nigrum) on Gliricidia (madre de cacao or kakawate). [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with black pepper, BSFil, change management, coffee, gliricidia, intensive learning, Nestle, opportunity-seeking, path creation, Philippines, SALT, sloping agricultural land technology, STI-Learning
Posted by admin on August 4, 2009 · 1 Comment
Intensive learning is the best innovation catch-up strategy for the Philippines (See Post #87 for more on intensive learning.). Nestle’s Robusta coffee is an opportunity where intensive learning will yield huge benefits in total factor productivity. Nestle used Scan-Adapt-Diffuse as the technique to find the appropriate technology in Robusta coffee for an emerging market like [...]
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