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Posted by m beduya on April 27, 2010 · 13 Comments
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 [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Akamatsu Kaname, ASIALICS, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Caesar Cororaton, DUI-Learning, flying geese, innovation systems, intensive learning, Philippines, productivity, Social Innovation, Taiwan, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on February 21, 2010 · 9 Comments
Hypothesis on systems of innovation for emerging markets from Denmark, Israel and New Zealand Filipinos, in general, are America-centered especially in learning about new things. In one sense, this is correct as America leads the world in many technologies. In another, it is not appropriate because there can be no bigger disparities than between America [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Books and Journals, Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Classic Nurturing - Industry Clusters and Science Parks, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Caesar Cororaton, competence-building, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, innovation, National Innovation Systems, Philippines, productivity, STI-Learning, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on December 30, 2009 · 19 Comments
Adapting Professor Bengt Ake Lundvall’s ideas for the Philippines Productivity is the true source of wealth for any nation, in the final analysis. And sustaining productivity requires for that nation to innovate continuously on its productivity base. Nations follow different strategies for innovation. The Philippines has survived through a strategy of trading services – by [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Caesar Cororaton, change management, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, GLOBELICS, innovation systems, Joseph Schumpeter, Philippines, productivity, STI-Learning, total factor productivity
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 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 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I am off today for Hongkong to attend the 6th Conference of the Asian Network for Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (ASIALICS) at the HKUST. Click here for the ASIALICS conference website. The ASIALICS is the regional conference of GLOBELICS organized by Professor Bengkt-Ake Lundvall who I featured In Post #17.
Posted by m beduya on June 6, 2009 · 11 Comments
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 [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Books and Journals, Classic Nurturing - Industry Clusters and Science Parks, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Mashups - Technology-enabled · Tagged with adaptive research, appropriate technology, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Caesar Cororaton, change management, intensive learning, Joseph Schumpeter, logistic curve, National Innovation Systems, Paul Romer, Philippines, process innovation, product innovation, Robert Solow, S-curve, scan-adapt-diffuse, STI-Learning, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on June 2, 2009 · 2 Comments
(Start of Part 2 of 3. From Post #64) Today, the European Chamber echoed my post on Monday, June 2 (See Post #64). The financial crisis presents opportunities from changing conditions that level the playing field to investors. Indeed, the government ought to take advantage of the crisis to initiate needed reforms to better position [...]
Filed under Financing of Innovation, Innovator Peso · Tagged with Bangko Sentral, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Caesar Cororaton, DUI-Learning, gold standard, inflation targeting, learning-by-doing, National Innovation Systems, Opportunity, Philippines, STI-Learning
Posted by m beduya on May 25, 2009 · 3 Comments
Let us support the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas as a central bank that provides the price anchor, the present-day gold standard, for our economy. Through real independence from political overlords, the price anchor provides long-term benefits: A stable price of money discourages speculation. Success in investing will now require merit in product differentiation and business [...]
Posted by m beduya on March 13, 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 154, the better version. I asked Professor Bengkt-Ake Lundvall for a copy of his out-of-print 1992 book. Instead, he pointed me here to the 2007 “post script.” I thank him heartily. Professor Lundvall was with [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Books and Journals, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation · Tagged with Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Caesar Cororaton, Christopher Freeman, DUI-Learning, factor accumulation, Joseph Schumpeter, learning-by-doing, National Innovation Systems, STI-Learning
Posted by m beduya on March 9, 2009 · 2 Comments
The global crisis and the elections of 2010 give a clear opportunity to re-organize the Philippine economy for long-term growth. The crisis allows a new, zero-base look at economic assumptions now. New strategies must be developed to converge the Philippines with where the world will be. President Obama is trying to do this for the [...]
Posted by m beduya on March 8, 2009 · 4 Comments
Note: This post has been re-written in a more accessible and longer style. Please click here for link to Post 135, the better version. The Philippine economy must be re-organized to provide a solid growth foundation. After reading Cororaton (2002-01 and 1996), I see no way to make Filipinos richer if we continue on the [...]
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