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Posted by m beduya on February 24, 2011 · 2 Comments
In 2010, researchers using spectral analysis published a paper that claims significant statistical proof that Kondratieff Waves exist and that its period is 52-53 years. This proof supports Nikolai Kondratieff’s predictions first presented in 1925 that Joseph Schumpeter also studied in his 1939 book Business Cycles. Further, this proof raises some rhetorical questions like: [...]
Filed under Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization · Tagged with business cycle, emerging markets, endogenous technological change, Germany, increasing returns, innovation systems, Japan, Joseph Schumpeter, Kondratieff waves, long wave, Spectral analysis
Posted by m beduya on February 7, 2011 · 5 Comments
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 [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy · Tagged with Alfred Marshall, co-evolution, Dani Rodrik, development economics, Douglass North, endogenous technological change, evolutionary economics, increasing returns, industrial policy, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, neoclassical economics, Peter Galison, Richard Nelson, Thomas Kuhn
Posted by m beduya on January 20, 2011 · 4 Comments
I have the kernel of a growth framework that can work for firms. It looks like a general framework for emerging markets development that I have been working on in SYNTHESiST for the past two years. I realized this while preparing for a brief talk on innovation and strategy with a leading multinational firm. This [...]
Filed under Adjacencies in Value Chains - Business Model x Technology, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with adjacency, business model, business model innovation, co-evolution, competitiveness, Convergence, emerging markets, endogenous technological change, general purpose technologies, increasing returns, innovation systems, Joseph Schumpeter, productivity, Social Innovation, technology-enabler
Posted by m beduya on November 30, 2010 · 1 Comment
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Bass Diffusion Model, catch-up, China, co-evolution, competitiveness, diffusion, emerging markets, endogenous technological change, Everett Rogers, increasing returns, India, industrial policy, innovation systems, Joseph Schumpeter, Nathan Rosenberg, Richard Nelson
Posted by m beduya on June 10, 2010 · 2 Comments
As shown again by the IPhone 4, Apple’s growth strategy is just planned product obsolescence with a twist. In the olden days of three-to-five year product development cycles, planned product obsolescence, and therefore consumer upgrades, was driven by annual style changes. In the much shorter product cycles of recent years, Apple is the champion of [...]
Filed under Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with Apple, brand development, emerging markets, increasing returns, innovative entrepreneurship, iPad, James Utterback, product development, product innovation, product obsolescence, Steve Jobs, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on January 11, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, Health and Medical Care, Information and Communication, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation, Supply Chain Logistics and Transport · Tagged with adaptive research, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Clayton Christensen, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, increasing returns, innovation, Joseph Schumpeter, National Innovation Systems, Philippines, Social Innovation, STI-Learning
Posted by m beduya on December 20, 2009 · 9 Comments
W. Brian Arthur digs deep for an evolutionary theory of technology Professor W. Brian Arthur’s 2009 book takes time to read and appreciate. Like any great book, its insights run in layers. Its front jacket compares his effort for technology to Thomas Kuhn’s for science (in The Structure of Scientific Revolutionn). Professor Kuhn first suggested [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization · Tagged with Convergence, increasing returns, innovation, innovative entrepreneurship, intensive learning, Joseph Schumpeter, technology forecasting, W Brian Arthur
Posted by m beduya on October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Over the years, the concept of Product has evolved and widened from the traditional, push USP as innovators try to find unserved markets or create new ones. In classic iteration and interaction, these concept changes have driven invention. In turn, they have also been driven by invention or enabled by it.
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Social Innovation · Tagged with endogenous technological change, increasing returns, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, positioning, product development, Romer space, unique selling proposition
Posted by m beduya on October 3, 2009 · 2 Comments
Technorati’s BlogCritics invited SYNTHESiST to contribute to their online magazine, BC. I accepted their invitation and sent my contribution which was published today: “Innovative Applications as Paul Romer’s Endogenous Technological Change Approaches Its 20th Anniversary”.
Posted by m beduya on September 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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).
Filed under Books and Journals, Brand and Product Development, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, Mashups - Technology-enabled, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with diffusion, endogenous technological change, increasing returns, innovation, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, Romer space, total factor productivity, viral product
Posted by m beduya on September 21, 2009 · 1 Comment
The World Economic Form (WEF) 2009 Global Competitiveness Report shows how badly the Philippines is performing absolutely and relative to its neighbors. The Philippines dropped 16 places to #87 out of 133 countries from #71 in 2008. I have always read the Report with reservations based on Paul Krugman’s comment that competitiveness does not apply [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Books and Journals, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with adaptive research, change management, competitiveness, David Ricardo, emerging markets, endogenous technological change, heterodox economics, increasing returns, innovation systems, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Krugman, Paul Romer
Posted by m beduya on August 31, 2009 · 2 Comments
I think the Ayala Group sees great opportunity in the microfinance market. They can put together a strong strategy – I will attempt here to cobble up one from a grab bag of MBA buzzwords, hahah!- and have a source of strong growth in financial services in the coming years. That is if Ayala can [...]
Filed under Adjacencies in Value Chains - Business Model x Technology, Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, Mashups - Technology-enabled · Tagged with adjacency, Blue Ocean, bottom of the pyramid, core competence, increasing returns, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, Philippines, value innovation, value locking
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