General Purpose Technologies as Enabler to Emerging Markets 279.0

Engaging in basic science research is sexy but not practical as the basis of development for the Philippines. Note that science, technology and even innovation have different goals and means and affect different constituencies and incentives or penalties, as policy areas. I believe it is in the mis-appreciation of these differences as they affect policy [...]

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Emerging Markets Innovation Systems Must Target Diffusion 268.0

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Bass Model Captures Diffusion of Innovation 190.0

Proposal for a new survey metric for innovations from emerging markets Global surveys on innovation are biased for the developed world because they use proxy metrics like patents issued, R&D spending, number of PhD accepted or journal papers published that are taken from the science-oriented and citation-based innovation model that applies well to the developed [...]

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Romer Space Innovation Finds Product Models for Viral Marketing 115.0

As an innovation practitioner in a latecomer country, I am very interested in applications and diffusion of Paul Romer’s basic research findings. I think his 1990 paper works well as a model for knowledge-embedded as well as for viral products, both of which create high value addition from Total Factor Productivity(TFP).

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Paul Romer and the S-Curve of Innovation 94.0

Theoretical economists and management theorists, like scientists viz engineers, often do not see eye-to-eye. The goal of the first is often new knowledge while those of the second is practical application. Their stakeholders, methodologies and measures of success are also different. Still, they often inhabit one S-curve though at different parts. For this post, the [...]

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Tweak on the 90-Day Milestone 65.0

SYNTHESiST passed 90 days on the Internet on April 26 with 63 posts. Over the past three months, I have fine-tuned the blog’s content and form to reflect reader feedback, new learnings as I explored the global innovation space, and my own desired changes in future direction. Today, I make another tweak mainly on content [...]

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