Crises cracking globalization along the varieties of capitalism 336.0
Varieties of capitalism is a line of inquiry in political science for describing capitalism’s broad brush based on the elements that make it work. Professor July Teehankee of La Salle introduced the approach to me by recommending the Hall and Soskice book pictured below left. Other than Cuba and North Korea, most of the world [...]
Innovation Policy supplies the dynamism for inclusive development 333.0
In the immediately previous post on October 4, Inclusive development needs an innovation and entrepreneurship policy, I introduced a definition of inclusive development. I argued that the two solutions suggested by static analysis and equilibrating snapshot from macroeconomics – public-private partnership focused on infrastructure as target for investment and conditional cash transfer as safety net [...]
Postwar Japan Created Modern Industrial Policy and Innovation Systems 302.0
From reading the news everyday, our instinct is to mistrust government as innately corrupt and inept in delivering welfare. Postwar Japan proved otherwise in reviving the country while creating and then using modern industrial policy and innovation systems to facilitate its dizzying growth rate from 1950 to 1972. Our neighbors South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and [...]
SYNTHESiST Working on an Appreciative Theory of Development 286.0
After two years, SYNTHESiST has moved from just looking at innovation systems and change management at firm- and industry-level into a tentative development framework for emerging markets. Using this Post as main source, I have created a Page entitled An Appreciative Theory of Economic Change and Development under Working Papers on the Sidebar at right. [...]
Change Management by Co-evolution of Institutions 273.0
Change management is part of my teaching focus and consulting practice but it clearly just applies at the firm level. At the sector or national innovation systems level, technical change with co-evolution of institutions and industry structure for catch-up by emerging markets seems more apt for SYNTHESiST. Thus to provide a focus with the apt [...]
Competing Economic Growth Models for Innovation Systems 265.0
Economic growth, especially those that add net value-added or productivity, is of special interest to emerging markets as they provide a general improvement in living standards for all citizens. This economic growth is the foundation on which the special case of catch-up, that I wrote about in the preceding post, rests. Catch-up happens when governments, [...]
GLOBELICS for Inclusive Development and Innovation for the Poor 262.0
The 8th GLOBELICS jumped right into its first order of business in the plenary and in Track 1 of the parallel sessions, “Innovation for the Poor [and Inclusive Development].” This after doing the right first thing in the memorial to Christopher Freeman. The highlight in the Innovation for the Poor track was the special panel [...]
Christopher Freeman Endows Respect for Persons and Love of Humanity 261.0
The world’s leading evolutionary economists met at the 8th GLOBELICS conference from November 1 – 3 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. To me, the finest quality of the group is the strong sense of community among themselves that reflects outward into a view of the world highlighted in the best way by the conference theme: Making [...]
Learning from China and Indigenous Innovation 224.0
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 [...]
Taiwan has a Nice Problem of Innovation for Growth 205.0
Policy planners are already doing detail policy research before they execute For this my last post from the 7th Asialics in Taipei, I peg my notes on a paper presented in the technology and industry stream on (a) the nice Taiwanese problem of innovation for growth and (b) the detail research activity done by policy [...]
Learning National Innovation Systems from Taiwan 204.0
Much can still be learned but for Post-industrial Philippines. Professor Chu Wan-wen was one of the speakers at the 7th Asialics Roundtable session in Taipei. Her talk on Taiwan and “second-mover advantage” made me look up and buy her book, Beyond Late Development, (with Alice Amsden). Today, I just finished reading the book. I am [...]
Philippines-Fabricated Rotary Filling Machine 188.0
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 [...]
