Modern Industrial Policy Discovers Locomotives in Global Supply Chains 297.0
Modern versions of industrial policy and the broader field of development economics are coming back into center stage says Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz in an IMF blog. This renewal comes after the failure of neoclassical macroeconomics to forecast the recent financial crisis and to explain the continuing success of emerging markets like China and India [...]
Appropriate Technology by Jim Ayala and HYBRID Empowers the Poor 292.0
Bringing appropriate technology and empowering the poor is Jim Ayala’s passion. He set up HYBRID Social Solutions as a “for profit” social enterprise. It is the pioneer social distribution company in the Philippines, to empower the poor by giving access to appropriate technology. The innovative concept of social distribution builds on an insightful view of [...]
Domestic Scan-Adapt-Diffuse Yields Laing for the World – 3 of 3
Delivering laing to Filipinos, in cans or in pouches, all over the world and all through the year is a difficult challenge to Scan-Adapt-and-Diffuse (from Post 68) for new combinations of otherwise mature technologies. In an ideal world, food factories would like to get the exact quantity of raw materials for processing every working day [...]
Technology Scan-Adapt-Diffuse Yields Opportunities from Sugar Replacement – 2 of 3
(Start of Part 2 of 3) Sugar replacement is an opportunity created by lifestyle, health and demographic changes. Yet to gain the benefit from this opportunity is not as easy as taking sugar out and replacing it with any sweetener. A lot of science (and art, too) in adaptive research is needed to Scan-Adapt-and-Diffuse (from [...]
Appropriate Technology from Scan-Adapt-Diffuse – 1 of 3
Innovation through Scan-Adapt-Diffuse is appropriate for emerging markets “Making Filipinos wealthier and the country stronger” has been my mantra in this blog. Being an industrial engineer with a passion for economics, I do not present this statement in terms of aggregates – like a typical economist – but in specific and practical terms. Update on [...]
Appropriate Technology for E407a and PNG Carrageenan – 1 of 2
Benson Dakay of Shemberg will always be associated with the global success of Philippines’ E407a E407a and Philippine Natural Grade Carrageenan (PNG): His story is an epic example of successful innovative entrepreneurship more so because the product and process he developed qualifies as indigenous innovation. Carrageenan is a texturant and stabilizer. Its use ranges from [...]
