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 [...]
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 [...]
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 from the National Innovation Systems of Emerging Japan 1/2
As with China now, emerging market Japan was accused of using an undervalued currency to build an export machine. Indeed, they may have dragged increasing the value of their currency to maximize yen returns until it became untenable for the country. Still, there were other explanations for their success that involved social innovation systems like [...]
Learning from the National Innovation Systems of South Korea 213.0
Filipino progressives would love to emulate the strong state approach of Korea to attain industrialization. Alice Amsden, a heterodox economist, wrote Asia’s Next Giant, South Korea and Late Industrialization in 1989, the same year as the fall of the Berlin wall, and described the successful Korean breakout experience to developed country status. Agreeing with some [...]
Change Management in Computerization as Case for Innovation Systems 208.0
Implementing computerization follows the global innovation S-curve The Philippines recent experience with implementing automated elections proves a similar climb up the S-curve with some path creation as with the experience in the United States. The productivity benefits of the personal computer that was introduced in the late 1970s and diffused quickly since then only showed [...]
Taiwan has a Nice Problem of Innovation for Growth 205.0
Policy planners are already doing detail policy research before they execute For this my last post from the 7th Asialics in Taipei, I peg my notes on a paper presented in the technology and industry stream on (a) the nice Taiwanese problem of innovation for growth and (b) the detail research activity done by policy [...]
7th Asialics Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC 200.0
Attending the 2009 Asialics in Hongkong a ‘Game Changer’ for SYNTHESiST Asialics is shorthand for its mouthful of a name: Asian Network Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence-Building Systems. The 2010 Conference has the theme Global Recession and Reform of Innovation Systems in Asia and is organized by Chung-Hua Institution for Economic [...]
Bass Model Captures Diffusion of Innovation 190.0
Proposal for a new survey metric for innovations from emerging markets Global surveys on innovation are biased for the developed world because they use proxy metrics like patents issued, R&D spending, number of PhD accepted or journal papers published that are taken from the science-oriented and citation-based innovation model that applies well to the developed [...]
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 [...]
