Development management and the latest in new institutional economics 320.0
According to what is already known, the Philippines is apparently unable to use new research in development management to improve governance to attain catch-up with our galloping neighbors or, alternatively, to reduce unemployment and poverty in the Philippines. Thus, in one roundtable discussion last week anticipating President Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) today, [...]
Economics and Crises – an Epic History of Self-Healing 287.0
Major crises in the real world have buffeted theoretical economics as social science through the two centuries of its existence. In the manner of the self-healing free markets that it describes, it went through major early adjustments from the classical like the marginalist and Keynesian adaptations to the multiple branches today in order to adapt [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Path Breaking Technologies for Latecomer Countries – 3 of 5
The New York Times yesterday, July 13, 2009, reported. “Microsoft Office 2010 Starts Ascension to the Cloud.” (Click this link to NYT: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/microsoft-office-2010-starts-ascension-to-the-cloud/?scp=1&sq=Office%202010%20cloud&st=Search). Two months ago, on May 9, I predicted that Microsoft will install browser-based version of Excel, PowerPoint, Word in my Post #53, Opportunity from Adjacency. I did make the same prediction some [...]
National Innovation Systems for Latecomer Countries – 2 of 5
… I was not disappointed despite the often ponderous, academic approach. The ASIALICS Hongkong conference focused on two areas: first, University-Industry linkage with two keynotes on the China and India experience and, second, on the changing role of RTO’s especially comparing the European and East Asian (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) experiences.
