Food Security Must Save from Hunger Errant E. coli and Toxic Additives 314.0

Food security is often focused more on production and distribution and less on food safety and quality. Yet recent experiences in Germany and in China and Taiwan highlight two types of risks to avoid to food security and safety. As design thinking, it is often more effective and efficient to design appropriate controls and contingencies [...]

Bangko Sentral Needs More Credibility as Philippines Inflation Fighter 307.0

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will review its forecast of Philippines inflation for the year 2011 on its May 5 Board meeting according to a news report by BusinessWorld Online today. I believe the review becomes necessary because the BSP keeps repeating the classic error of time inconsistency – in behavioral economics – and [...]

SYNTHESiST Refines for Better Focus – Content – Experience – Reach 294.0

Fast changes in Google search and Facebook social graph technologies dictate continuous learning of new skills and techniques for SYNTHESiST. On top of these internal changes, I have put in place changes to refine its focus, content, experience and reach to better serve her community – a relentless challenge indeed. I am sharing on a [...]

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, [...]

8th GLOBELICS – Making Innovation Work for Society 257.0

Through SYNTHESiST, my work to enrich the conversation on innovation systems and change management in emerging markets like the Philippines gets me to meet interesting people – scholars who move their worlds with knowledge work. In two weeks, I will attend my first GLOBELICS, the 8th Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Learning Curve Effect of Classic Chinese-Filipino Pricing Policy 182.0

Entrepreneur-students of the 1st EDP at AIM help draw an insight Scholars and analysts often derive their theories after practitioners in the real world have been implementing them successfully for years. At the first ever Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), my class found a key insight linking the classic [...]

Learning Innovation Systems from Small Developed Nations 178.0

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 [...]

Philippines As Emerging Market 157.0

Let us stop flagellating ourselves with negative news From 2005, Goldman Sachs identified the Philippines as one of eleven countries “that could potentially have a BRIC-like impact in rivalling the G7.” More recently, in September 2009, the FTSE Global Equity Index Series classified the Philippines as one of seventeen secondary emerging countries with regards to [...]

Technology Innovation Strategy for Emerging Markets 156.0

Catching up and leapfrogging is hard; Improving winner industries in captured growth markets with enabler technologies easier Each country, because of its level of development, will have its own bounded innovation ecosystem that is intertwined with that of the rest of the world. The Philippines, as typical of emerging markets, does not lead in any [...]

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