Posted by admin on July 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Joseph Schumpeter introduced the concept of the entrepreneur as the true locomotive of the modern economy. Further, he identified that economy’s true context as the then ‘new normal’ of creative destruction from continuous innovation, and not the seeking of price equilibrium from perfect competition. While the modern definition considers all businesspersons as entrepreneurs, Schumpeter equated [...]
Posted by admin on June 28, 2010 · 2 Comments
“The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield,” begins Peter Drucker’s classic 1985 book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, quoting the French economist J.B. Say. Thus, Mark Ruiz and the Hapinoy/MicroVentures (MVI) team, all social entrepreneurs, are mining a rich vein for social enterprise [...]
Filed under Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain Logistics and Transport · Tagged with equity, Hapinoy, Joseph Schumpeter, Mark Ruiz, microfinance, nanay, Peter Drucker, Philippines, profitability, sari sari, social enterprise, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, supply chain, sustainability, triple bottom line
Posted by admin on June 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Writing about what Filipino social entrepreneurs – like Reese Fernandez, Mark Ruiz and Jay Bernardo – actually do as innovators left me stumped and sidetracked. Thus, before posting about Mark and Jay, the inevitable a priori question must be asked: what makes a social entrepreneur tick? Stoking the Inner Fire. This question led me to [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Amartya Sen, comparative realization, contractarian, countervailing powers, George Bernard Shaw, innovator, Jay Bernardo, Justice, Man and SUperman, Mark Ruiz, Philippines, Reese Fernandez, revolutionist, Social Entrepreneurs, Ubermensch
Posted by admin on June 21, 2010 · 4 Comments
Not all entrepreneurs are innovators as categorized by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In putting together a new way for nascent entrepreneurs to work together and create value from creativity and to sustain the work over time, Reese Fernandez of RIIR is definitely in the practice of innovative entrepreneurship. I believe her pioneering effort – [...]
Filed under Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise and Innovations, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Enterprise Laureates, innovative entrepreneurship, Philippines, Rag2Riches, Reese, Reese Fernandez, RIIR, Rolex, social enterprise, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Starbucks, SYNTHESiST
Posted by admin on April 22, 2010 · 3 Comments
It is not just a disruptive one. The most fascinating person I met at 7th Asialics in Taipei is Professor Chaisung Lim of the Miller School of Management of Techology, Konkuk University, Korea. We had a long discussion over breakfast on innovation from emerging markets (or as the jargon also goes, catch-up economies). We are [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with ASIALICS, design thinking, disruptive innovation, emerging markets, experimental design, frugal engineering, IDEO, India Tata, indigenous innovation, Nano, process innovation, QFD, quality function deployment, Taguchi
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 March 8, 2010 · 5 Comments
Comelec proactively and innovatively designs VAC to help manage congestion The Comelec inserted a new provision – a really creative one – in the updated Res 8786 to create a Voters Assistance Center (VAC) in each school to help manage congestion that is the main consequence of clustering. In this automated election, congestion from clustering [...]
Filed under 2010 Automated Elections, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, News and Stories, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with change management, Comelec, Philippines, Res 8786, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Posted by admin on March 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Entrepreneur-students of the 1st EDP at AIM help draw an insight Scholars and analysts often derive their theories after practitioners in the real world have been implementing them successfully for years. At the first ever Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), my class found a key insight linking the classic [...]
Filed under Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Learning and Teaching, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Asian Institute of Management, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, competence-building, DUI-Learning, entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Development Program, intensive learning, Kenneth Arrow, nathan rosenberg, National Innovation Systems, Philippines
Posted by admin on February 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
To enhance shareability and improve searchability As you can see, I just installed a Google Buzz This button at the top of each SYNTHESiST post. The button installs such “-abilities” on the blog that is so necessary to compete robustly for attention in the blogosphere. Again, I thank my internet marketing guru and friend, Raque [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Mashups - Technology-enabled, News and Stories · Tagged with brand development, Facebook, Google Buzz, innovation, product development, product innovation, Social Media, Twitter
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 30, 2010 · 2 Comments
Market leader Amazon hits back with Free! Yesterday at 0947 GMT (5:47pm Friday Manila), Amazon sent me the email at left offering a free download of Kindle for PC. Quickly, Amazon shots back across Apple’s bow. I would have taken the offer. I do buy a lot of books (like two a week). At the [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Information and Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Amazon, Apple, Clayton Christensen, disruptive innovation, iPad, Joseph Schumpeter, Kindle, Steve Jobs
Posted by admin on January 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Sec. Ace Durano makes the country a birdwatching destination As part of a diversification strategy, creativity goes a long way to promote growth for the Philippines in a way that is hard for other countries to compete. Imagine birdwatching! For eco-tourism and just recently to support his diversification strategy, Sec Ace Durano also promoted the [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Brand and Product Development, Changes in Environment and Need for Sustainability, Changes in Regulation and Policy with Transparency and Empowerment, Energy Water and Environment, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with brand development, commercialization, emerging markets, innovative entrepreneurship, Philippines, product development
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