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Posted by m beduya on September 26, 2011 · 1 Comment
I think the Aquino Administration is 100% correct in visiting Japan and discussing the Spratlys after sponsoring the first ever ASEAN Maritime security meet on the West Philippine Sea in Manila. We ought to initiate discussions on ASEAN maritime security with South Korea as well which is in the same boat as Japan as far [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Geographic Clusters - ASEAN, Sectors, Regions and Cities · Tagged with ASEAN, ASEAN maritime, balance of power, collective security, Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger, Niall Ferguson, raison d'etat, Realpolitik, Spratlys, unversalism, War of the World, West Philippine Sea
Posted by m beduya on September 9, 2011 · 7 Comments
As an exercise in futurology, TrendNovation Southeast web magazine asked me in April 2011 to write a scenario template on the future of ASEAN integration fit to go into a Delphi process. The magazine is devoted to discussions of long-term technological, social and political trends in Southeast Asia. Linked here, the published article is entitled [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Geographic Clusters - ASEAN, Sectors, Regions and Cities · Tagged with ASEAN, futurology, innovation, innovative entrepreneurship, Mainland ASEAN, Maritme ASEAN, Mekong, Sahul, Sunda, TrendNovatin, Wallace
Posted by m beduya on November 12, 2010 · 6 Comments
The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) is the only example I know of a continuing triumph from one of the emerging markets that resulted to global leadership via government-private sectoral innovation systems among ASEAN countries. Philippines back story. Sadly, for the Philippines, Malaysia’s continuing success in implementing growth in total area planted to oil palm [...]
Filed under Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Geographic Clusters - ASEAN, Sectors, Regions and Cities, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with ASEAN, co-evolution, coconut oil, emerging markets, industry clusters, innovation systems, Malaysia, palm kernel oil, palm oil, Philippines, productivity, Sectoral innovation systems
Posted by m beduya on November 19, 2009 · 10 Comments
Benedict Anderson’s imagined community powers nationhood “In Fuzhou, far away, my wife is watching The moon alone tonight… When will we feel the moonlight dry our tears, Leaning together on our windowsill?” In 1983, way before the Internet, a special friend implored me to gaze at the moon while at the same time she looked [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Social Innovation · Tagged with ASEAN, Benedict Anderson, China, emerging markets, Imagined Communities, India, Max Weber, Social Innovation, Wang Yang Ming, Yoshida Shoin
Posted by m beduya on November 16, 2009 · 12 Comments
Cororaton says TFP was negative for 35 years to 2000 Dr Caesar Cororaton, formerly of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), said in his paper that for 35 years through 2000, factor accumulation accounted for all growth and Technical Change (another name for TFP) was negative for most of the same period. From his [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with ASEAN, Caesar Cororaton, competence-building, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, factor accumulation, intensive learning, National Innovation Systems, Philippines, productivity, productivity improvement, resource mobilization, technical progress, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on August 30, 2009 · 4 Comments
For this 100th post, I am pleased to report another innovation area that I discovered the Philippines to be a global leader: mobile phone banking in microfinance. The four other areas of leadership I have reported elsewhere in SYNTHESiST are: renewable geothermal energy, PNG carrageenan from seaweeds, and SALT (Sloping Agricultural Land Technology). Innovation is [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation · Tagged with ASEAN, ASIALICS, business process outsourcing, emerging markets, endogenous technological change, industrial policy, microfinance, mobile phone banking, non-rival partially excludable, Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Paul Romer, Philippines
Posted by m beduya on July 19, 2009 · 9 Comments
Hongkong and Singapore are latecomer nations, in fact city-states, who were similar in many ways but took different paths toward their present developed status. As cities, they are a special case of industry clusters; as nations, these cities can be special cases to study from for the Philippines. For this paper A tale of two [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Geographic Clusters - ASEAN, Sectors, Regions and Cities · Tagged with ASEAN, Caesar Cororaton, emerging markets, endogenous technological change, factor accumulation, Hongkong, increasing returns, industry clusters, Jane Jacobs, Paul Krugman, Paul Romer, Singapore, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on July 15, 2009 · 2 Comments
The New York Times yesterday, July 13, 2009, reported. “Microsoft Office 2010 Starts Ascension to the Cloud.” (Click this link to NYT: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/microsoft-office-2010-starts-ascension-to-the-cloud/?scp=1&sq=Office%202010%20cloud&st=Search). Two months ago, on May 9, I predicted that Microsoft will install browser-based version of Excel, PowerPoint, Word in my Post #53, Opportunity from Adjacency. I did make the same prediction some [...]
Filed under Classic Nurturing - Industry Clusters and Science Parks, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with adjacency, ASEAN, ASIALICS, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, evolutionary economics, intensive learning, Joseph Schumpeter, Kathleen Eisenhardt, Malaysia, National Innovation Systems, New York Times, Patarapong Intarakumnerd, path dependence, Philippines, real options, Research & Technology Organizations, Richard Nelson, scan-adapt-diffuse, technology licensing, Thailand, University-Industry linkage, Vietnam
Posted by m beduya on July 13, 2009 · 2 Comments
… I was not disappointed despite the often ponderous, academic approach. The ASIALICS Hongkong conference focused on two areas: first, University-Industry linkage with two keynotes on the China and India experience and, second, on the changing role of RTO’s especially comparing the European and East Asian (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) experiences.
Filed under Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with ASEAN, ASIALICS, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, emerging markets, evolutionary economics, intensive learning, Malaysia, National Innovation Systems, Oslo protocol, Patarapong Intarakumnerd, path dependence, Philippines, Research & Technology Organizations, Richard Nelson, scan-adapt-diffuse, technology licensing, Thailand, University-Industry linkage, Vietnam
Posted by m beduya on May 1, 2009 · 2 Comments
While seemingly cataclysmic, the three expected causes of rice yield loss also present opportunities. On causes of yield loss, … (Start of Part 2 of 2) Firstly, the temperature increase of 4.8% will result into heat stress on rice thus directly reducing yield. Please imagine summer temperatures in Manila at 39C. That is the temperature, [...]
Posted by m beduya on April 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Note: This post has been re-written in a more accessible and longer style. Please click here for link to Post 136, the better version. Start of Part II of II. Professor Benedict notes that governments build nationalism, for good or for bad, through emblems like cenotaphs and tombs of the unknown soldier. He says they [...]
Posted by m beduya on April 1, 2009 · 2 Comments
Part 3 of 3. Secondly, the rise of China and India who are at the moment our customers, competitors and collaborators at the same time will drive innovation. The Philippines and ASEAN, except Singapore, are technology followers. From my experience, two technology tracks are feasible from this starting point. One track is to go for [...]
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