The Philippines Needs Embedded Patriotism to Catch-up 278.0
I picked up my Christmas reading only this week; they got caught up in the Christmas rush getting to New York. I bought the three books to fill up gaps in the development framework for emerging markets that I am trying to cobble up in the context of today’s fast moving technology environment. Briefly, from [...]
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 [...]
Federal Reserve Waves Standard for BSP to Emulate 269.0
With its publication earlier today of the details of what the New York Times reported as “Fed Papers Show Breadth of Emergency Measures” as first released by the Federal Reserve, the Fed proves itself again to be the gold standard among central banks. A Dual and often contradictory Charter. As with the Bangko Sentral ng [...]
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, [...]
Catch-up Innovation Systems for Emerging Markets 264.0
This is a great book for someone looking at innovation from a theoretical, evolutionary economics standpoint – the papers are good focusing devices for guiding a practical strategy for a country like the Philippines that must be finally defined by local context. The book looks at innovation mainly from a social science point of view [...]
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 [...]
Four Great Books I Bought While in Taiwan 201.0
Four interesting books to support a habit that is almost a vice As is my habit, I visited the biggest bookstore in town and ended up buying two books. In Taipei, the biggest is Eslite Bookstore sitting on 8,000 square meters in its own Mall on Xinyi. It has many branches in Taipei and all [...]
Innovation as Intensive Learning and Emulating the East Asian NIEs 103.0
Intensive learning facilitated the technological catching up process of the East Asian NIEs like South Korea and Taiwan in the 1980′s, said Professor Patarapong in his paper at ASIALICS 2009 (Posts 80, 81,82, 86 and 87). The subject fascinates. For me, the hunt goes on for innovation models to emulate so I can enrich the [...]
Intensive Learning-by-Doing in the Agribusiness of Coffee – 1 of 2
Intensive learning is the best innovation catch-up strategy for the Philippines (See Post #87 for more on intensive learning.). Nestle’s Robusta coffee is an opportunity where intensive learning will yield huge benefits in total factor productivity. Nestle used Scan-Adapt-Diffuse as the technique to find the appropriate technology in Robusta coffee for an emerging market like [...]
