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 [...]
Philippines As Emerging Market 157.0
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 [...]
Technology Innovation Strategy for Emerging Markets 156.0
Catching up and leapfrogging is hard; Improving winner industries in captured growth markets with enabler technologies easier Each country, because of its level of development, will have its own bounded innovation ecosystem that is intertwined with that of the rest of the world. The Philippines, as typical of emerging markets, does not lead in any [...]
Global Innovator in Medical Education 153.0
Dr. Khryss breaks new ground in medical education Dr. Fortunato Cristobal, or Dr. Khryss as he is fondly known, is a globally recognized innovator in medical education. Like many such leaders, he is a stranger in his own land! Since 1998, his school has graduated about 30 students per year of which 80% – 90% [...]
