Political Science is natural limit to a joyful journey of synthesis 337.0
Political science seems the natural limit to an enjoyable journey of synthesis that started with innovation. For an emerging market, I always believed that Government has a big role to play in catch up development. This is proven especially by the success of our neighbors in East Asia. The question is more about how to [...]
US awards for Science and for Technology and Innovation 335.0
President Obama recently awarded national medals to seven scientific researchers and five technologists and innovators. The awards caught my eye because the Americans separated the medals for science from the medals for technology and innovation. The way the awards are granted and the work accomplished by the medal winners indicate to me the right policy [...]
Innovation Policy supplies the dynamism for inclusive development 333.0
In the immediately previous post on October 4, Inclusive development needs an innovation and entrepreneurship policy, I introduced a definition of inclusive development. I argued that the two solutions suggested by static analysis and equilibrating snapshot from macroeconomics – public-private partnership focused on infrastructure as target for investment and conditional cash transfer as safety net [...]
Inclusive development needs an innovation and entrepreneurship policy 332.0
The Aquino Administration ought to add entrepreneurship and innovation policy to its flagship programs to achieve inclusive development. To me, the two current flagship programs of public-private partnership focused on infrastructure and 4Ps through conditional cash transfers (CCT) as safety net for the poorest of the poor are necessary but not sufficient to achieve inclusive [...]
ASEAN integration needs political will from a sense of shared history 327.0
As an exercise in futurology, TrendNovation Southeast web magazine asked me in April 2011 to write a scenario template on the future of ASEAN integration fit to go into a Delphi process. The magazine is devoted to discussions of long-term technological, social and political trends in Southeast Asia. Linked here, the published article is entitled [...]
SYNTHESiST will focus on innovations at the margin 321.0
I have not been actively posting on SYNTHESiST for three weeks though I have continuously “curated” articles about innovation, development and change and shared links at SYNTHESiST on Facebook every day. From the US, new books with new insights on innovation systems and development are coming few and far between. Most were published before the [...]
Manufacturing-Enterprise Resource Planning Enables Plant Productivity 304.0
Implementing the right factory software information systems (ICT) enables productivity for manufacturing firms. ICT is a general purpose technology that, when applied correctly, has been proven to improve productivity. ICT in manufacturing increases productivity in three ways, first by institutionalizing business processes, second by improving coordination among factory functions, and, finally, by hard-wiring empowerment for [...]
Appropriate Technology by Jim Ayala and HYBRID Empowers the Poor 292.0
Bringing appropriate technology and empowering the poor is Jim Ayala’s passion. He set up HYBRID Social Solutions as a “for profit” social enterprise. It is the pioneer social distribution company in the Philippines, to empower the poor by giving access to appropriate technology. The innovative concept of social distribution builds on an insightful view of [...]
Green Innovation Opportunities from Biophysical Finiteness 282.0
From 1996, when his book Beyond Growth was published, Herman Daly was considered the dean of “ecological economics.” I like two insights from the book that I take as “jolt[s] to conventional thinking”: finitude that I prefer to call finiteness and use as a more optimistic starting point for opportunities from innovation, and a clear [...]
Competitiveness Demands Social Innovation in Institutions 274.0
None of the five pillars in President Noynoy Aquino’s first Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP), that is being drafted as I write this post, addresses the needed social innovation in Institutions to improve competitiveness for the Philippines. Other than as based on Professor Cantwell’s capabilities, competitiveness is also defined differently by other folks. These definitions [...]
The New York Times Truly Takes up Social Media 267.0
I was pleasantly surprised to see my good facebook friends, Atty. Luie Guia and Denis Du, on the front page, onscreen of my online New York Times in the box, Latest in My Network. It turns out that they have used the links button on New York Times online to recommend articles on Facebook. As [...]
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, [...]
