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Posted by m beduya on July 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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, [...]
Filed under Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with entrepreneurship, inclusive development, industrial policy, innovative entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation, opportunity-seeking, public-private partnerships, value-adding potential, William Baumol
Posted by m beduya on June 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
I believe that President Aquino administration’s focus on public-private partnerships (PPP) pushes opportunity-seeking by moneyed Filipino capitalists away from innovative entrepreneurship. In the short-term, I understand the Administration’s choice of strategy at this stage based on classical, mathematical macroeconomics. With their franchised deal set up on property-hedged infrastructure projects that are easy for project finance, [...]
Filed under Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with inclusive development, industrial policy, innovative entreneurship, IS/LM, John Hicks, Opportunity, opportunity-seeking, public-private partnership
Posted by m beduya on February 4, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Demographics and Lifestyle say from Growth, Aging and Urbanization, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with adaptive research, change management, emerging markets, innovation, innovative entrepreneurship, opportunity-seeking, product development, product innovation
Posted by m beduya on December 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Here is where I read, think and write I invite you into my think space at home! This long season is a time to ponder. At home, my iMac has a super-fast DSL connection – I think it is a T1 – that allows me to do Internet search quickly! The screen shows the edit [...]
Posted by m beduya on December 9, 2009 · 1 Comment
Borders at Charing Cross Road is Closing Down Total Liquidation. Borders, a bookstore and an American import into London, is closing its branch at 120 Charing Cross Road. Is it a sign of the times that a knowledge-based business like book selling has become a victim to both the financial crisis and the migration of [...]
Posted by m beduya on December 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Success in microblogging will ask for childlike wonder To enable microblogging, I installed the widget, Twitter for WordPress, on the Sidebar at right just before departing for London today. This needs for me to be aware of my passions – innovation, books and political economy – and of change every minute of my waking day. [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, News and Stories · Tagged with intensive learning, opportunity-seeking, product development, Twitter, WordPress
Posted by m beduya on November 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Evangelista keeps the clunkers going The lady beside me at the coffee shop murmured, “I thought I was coming home to a third world country. Everybody seems to be out and enjoying what most Filipinos like, eating!” Life in Manila is made affordable for many people because of such well-known secrets as Evangelista, the automotive [...]
Posted by m beduya on November 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Awesome prototypes from a two-month course Three teams showed off their final prototype projects in a contest of technical, commercial and presentation skills yesterday. They had worked through an intense two-month new product development course that Prof Matt Escobido and I team-teach at the Asian Institute of Management. The winning team had an Apple iApp [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Learning and Teaching, Mashups - Technology-enabled, Rapid Prototyping - Incubators, Proof-of-Concept, Accelerators · Tagged with Asian Institute of Management, innovative entrepreneurship, intensive learning, opportunity-seeking, Philippines, product development
Posted by m beduya on August 5, 2009 · 3 Comments
The question, “If the financial returns are so good, why is everybody not doing it?” is a fair one to ask with black pepper as well as with coffee. BSFil Technologies has done the science and the practice (in a long-standing pilot farm) with black pepper (Piper Nigrum) on Gliricidia (madre de cacao or kakawate). [...]
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, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation · Tagged with black pepper, BSFil, change management, coffee, gliricidia, intensive learning, Nestle, opportunity-seeking, Philippines, sloping agricultural land technology, STI-Learning
Posted by m beduya on August 4, 2009 · 1 Comment
Intensive learning is the best innovation catch-up strategy for the Philippines (See Post #87 for more on intensive learning.). Nestle’s Robusta coffee is an opportunity where intensive learning will yield huge benefits in total factor productivity. Nestle used Scan-Adapt-Diffuse as the technique to find the appropriate technology in Robusta coffee for an emerging market like [...]
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, Food Life Sciences and Agribusiness, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation · Tagged with agribusiness, catch-up, change management, DUI-Learning, intensive learning, learning-by-doing, Nestle, opportunity-seeking, Philippines, Robusta Cofee, STI-Learning, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on May 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment
SYNTHESiST reached a milestone with the publication of the 50th and 51st entries on May 4, 2009. The posts are about an opportunity in national logistics from a change in business model and convergence of technologies changing. We were fueled by enthusiasm at the start to overcome the difficulties of writing in a new media [...]
Posted by m beduya on April 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Another insight to brew into the mix comes from marketing view of the product-life cycle. In this view, the first half is also a fight about product attributes. The classic example is Betamax vs. VHS. The second half is about consumer needs like convenience, price, brand, status and experience. (Start of Part 2 of 2) [...]
Filed under Adjacencies in Value Chains - Business Model x Technology, Books and Journals, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization · Tagged with adjacency, Clayton Christensen, commercialization, disruptive innovation, dominant design, invention, opportunity-seeking, product-life-cycle
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