Amartya Sen Says Development Follows Expanding Freedoms 237.0
Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Prize winner for economics, is one of the most eminent development economists today. In his book, Development as Freedom (1999, Anchor), Professor Sen quotes Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics in justifying why he believes freedom is more important than wealth as the true object and subject of development: “wealth is evidently [...]
Jay Bernardo Shouts Lets Go for an Army of Entrepreneurs 231.0
Posted by admin on July 4, 2010 · 2 Comments
Jay Bernardo, a serial entrepreneur himself, has been passionate about teaching entrepreneurship since I first met him sometime mid-1990s. Lets Go (an acronym for Leading Entrepreneurs Toward Seizing Global Opportunities) began as a training caseroom on entrepreneurship for JAD Manufacturing, Inc. employees, then Jay Bernardo’s flagship venture. It eventually became a training room for all [...]
Hapinoy – Mark Ruiz Retails Sari Sari Happiness to Filipinos 228.0
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 [...]
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Rags2Riches – Reese Fernandez Creates Value from Creativity 226.0
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 – [...]
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Learning from China and Indigenous Innovation 224.0
Posted by admin on June 18, 2010 · 3 Comments
In China, they have a saying, “one cannot step into the same river twice.” Lu Qiwen first wrote about the China brand of national innovation systems, Indigenous Innovation, in China’s Leap into the Information Age: Innovation and Organization in the Computer Industry (Oxford, 2000). It seems, that the mode of national innovation system as described [...]
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Countervailing Institutions per Galbraith Engender Strong Leaders 219.0
Posted by admin on June 3, 2010 · 2 Comments
More than technological innovation, Filipinos must design social innovation in public governance that is more effective in creating wealth for all. In summary. Peter Drucker, in another post on social enterprise, noted the great benefits of social innovation like the bank, the university and the R&D laboratory to those societies that conceived them in history. [...]
Learning from the National Innovation Systems of South Korea 213.0
Posted by admin on May 20, 2010 · 3 Comments
Filipino progressives would love to emulate the strong state approach of Korea to attain industrialization. Alice Amsden, a heterodox economist, wrote Asia’s Next Giant, South Korea and Late Industrialization in 1989, the same year as the fall of the Berlin wall, and described the successful Korean breakout experience to developed country status. Agreeing with some [...]
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Will the 2010 automated elections be a failure? Part 2 of 2
Our happiness ought to be the leader-candidates’ platform in this election This post answers the other question on election failure, that of the political scientists and many people in the streets: If the purpose of elections is to select the best leaders, will the 2010 automated elections fail? Unlike my answer to the same question [...]
Comelec Plans to Reduce Congestion from Clustering are Inadequate 187.0
Posted by admin on March 15, 2010 · 3 Comments
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 [...]
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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 Tempeton 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 [...]
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Being an Automated Elections Observer is Hard Work 185.0
Posted by admin on March 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Observing elections is a vocation and profession. Vignettes. IFES and NDI. Vignette 1. I first met Butch Abad of the Liberal Party when he saw us off to Danao, then dangerous Ramon Durano country, for the snap elections in 1985. Then, we were all observers with NAMFREL. So lately, I found his transformation to traditional [...]
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Embedding Sustainability into New Enterprises 184.0
Posted by admin on March 10, 2010 · 6 Comments
New Zeitgest, tools and metrics are making CSV for enterprise the new norm Businesses are starting to embed sustainability into their strategy rather than just do it as a separate project under corporate social responsibility (CSR). They are starting to do this because it is beginning to make business sense. The Sagip Pasig Movement (SPM) [...]
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