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 [...]
Innovative Entrepreneurship is the Way to Inclusive Development 318.0
To deliver on the second of his four-part set of campaign promises, inclusive development where all participate in growth, President Aquino’s development program must go beyond the focus on public-private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure and also incentivize opportunity-seeking in innovative entrepreneurship. Indeed, PPPs will definitely add to aggregate demand in the mathematical economic planning model, [...]
Pragmatism and Modern Industrial Policy to Refresh the Global Economy 315.0
Pragmatism and modern industrial policy were needed to bring America to its dominant position from the beginning of the 20th century until today notes Fareed Zakaria in the TIME article that I linked in the image below. Both need to be re-introduced into the present political debate possibly by centrists of both political Parties for [...]
Schumpeter Advocates Innovation as True Driver of Progress 233.0
Joseph Schumpeter introduced the concept of the entrepreneur as the true locomotive of the modern economy. Further, he identified that economy’s true context as the then ‘new normal’ of creative destruction from continuous innovation, and not the seeking of price equilibrium from perfect competition. While the modern definition considers all businesspersons as entrepreneurs, Schumpeter equated [...]
Looking Forward with Pres Aquino on Philippine Development 229.0
As I write this post, I am listening to President Aquino deliver his inaugural speech; indeed an inspiring one as an inaugural speech ought to be. Just institution-building? Yet, from the speech, President Nonoy seems just focused in building, if not re-building, the institutions of a working capitalist democracy – possibly as countervailing powers in [...]
Rags2Riches – Reese Fernandez Creates Value from Creativity 226.0
Not all entrepreneurs are innovators as categorized by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In putting together a new way for nascent entrepreneurs to work together and create value from creativity and to sustain the work over time, Reese Fernandez of RIIR is definitely in the practice of innovative entrepreneurship. I believe her pioneering effort – [...]
Apple Growth Derives from Planned Product Obsolescence 222.0
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 [...]
Ventner Builds First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacteria Cell 215.0
Craig Ventner, who first mapped the human genome, achieved another first. His research team at the J. Craig Ventner Institute (JCVI) assembled the first self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell. The discovery is path-breaking as it can lead to new products like “advanced biofuels, clean water technology, and new vaccines.” Other than the products, the experimental and [...]
Kindle for Mac is now FREE to Download 189.0
The best marketing response for Amazon against Apple iPad Amazon has done today exactly as I said in my January 29 post, Apple iPad Intrudes on Amazon Kindle e-Reader Space, one day after Apple launched its iPAd the best marketing response to Apple. Today, at 4:08 pm Manila time, I received an email for the [...]
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 [...]
Highest Alexa Rank Ever Domain Ownership and Survey Updates 175.0
SYNTHESiST rises above #1 million. Surveys describe its readers. As I thought, the mathematical formula behind Alexa’s ranking quickly brought SYNTHESiST above the 1 millionth from the low 8.6 million rank when I enrolled on December 25, 2009. Today, Alexa ranks SYNTHESiST at #983,845, its highest ever. Sulit.com.ph is the highest ranked Filipino site at [...]
Opportunities from Salt Replacement in Food Preparation 169.0
The scan-adapt-diffuse approach to technology acquisition. Consumers’ desire for healthier food creates opportunities for the enterprising innovator. A more sedentary lifestyle especially in the developed world and increasingly so in emerging markets makes a sodium-rich diet a high risk of cardiovascular disease. The major source of sodium in our diet is salt so that it [...]
