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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 January 25, 2011 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Changes in Environment and Need for Sustainability · Tagged with China, ecological economics, emerging markets, entropy, ethico-social, finitude, herman daly, innovation, Joseph Schumpeter, Opportunity, Richard Nelson, sustainability
Posted by m beduya on June 8, 2009 · 3 Comments
(Start of Part 2 of 3) Sugar replacement is an opportunity created by lifestyle, health and demographic changes. Yet to gain the benefit from this opportunity is not as easy as taking sugar out and replacing it with any sweetener. A lot of science (and art, too) in adaptive research is needed to Scan-Adapt-and-Diffuse (from [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, 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, Mashups - Technology-enabled · Tagged with adaptive research, appropriate technology, change management, demographic change, intensive learning, Opportunity, product innovation, scan-adapt-diffuse, STI-Learning
Posted by m beduya on June 2, 2009 · 2 Comments
(Start of Part 2 of 3. From Post #64) Today, the European Chamber echoed my post on Monday, June 2 (See Post #64). The financial crisis presents opportunities from changing conditions that level the playing field to investors. Indeed, the government ought to take advantage of the crisis to initiate needed reforms to better position [...]
Filed under Financing of Innovation, Innovator Peso · Tagged with Bangko Sentral, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Caesar Cororaton, DUI-Learning, gold standard, inflation targeting, learning-by-doing, National Innovation Systems, Opportunity, Philippines, STI-Learning
Posted by m beduya on June 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
SYNTHESiST passed 90 days on the Internet on April 26 with 63 posts. Over the past three months, I have fine-tuned the blog’s content and form to reflect reader feedback, new learnings as I explored the global innovation space, and my own desired changes in future direction. Today, I make another tweak mainly on content [...]
Posted by m beduya on May 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
(Start of Part 2 of 2) For Blue Ocean, McCafe of McDonald’s is a great example of adjacency. Zach’s Investment Research reports on Friday, May 8, “McDonald’s strong U.S. sales were fueled by its popular line of healthier chicken snack wraps, and by its successful recent rollout of McCafe coffees.” McCafe was first tried out [...]
Posted by m beduya on May 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I coin the phrase “Opportunity from Adjacency” for the approach to innovative entrepreneurship using the industry value chain. Two such approaches are currently popular. The “Profit Zone” finds opportunity in adjacent links with financial analysis as the starting point. The “Blue Ocean “ finds opportunities in adjacent links with product-market analysis. This post will have [...]
Filed under Adjacencies in Value Chains - Business Model x Technology, Books and Journals · Tagged with adjacency, Blue Ocean, business model, cloud computing, Facebook, Google, innovation, James Utterback, Microsoft, Opportunity, profit zone, Search, Social Graph, Software-as-a-Service, YouTube
Posted by m beduya on May 4, 2009 · 3 Comments
It costs more to ship a full container from Manila to Mindanao than to Hongkong or San Francisco. Thus, food and other goods from the provinces is more expensive for the city people. At the same time, lower demand from the city slows down development in the provinces. Overall, it makes everybody poorer. High internal [...]
Posted by m beduya on May 1, 2009 · 2 Comments
While seemingly cataclysmic, the three expected causes of rice yield loss also present opportunities. On causes of yield loss, … (Start of Part 2 of 2) Firstly, the temperature increase of 4.8% will result into heat stress on rice thus directly reducing yield. Please imagine summer temperatures in Manila at 39C. That is the temperature, [...]
Posted by m beduya on April 30, 2009 · 1 Comment
If we do not do anything about climate change now, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) projects that Philippine rice yield potential will drop 75% when the world temperature rises by 4.8C in 2100. This projection is the worst-case scenario. The ADB report , Economics of Southeast Asia Climate Change (Please click image to download copy.) [...]
Posted by m beduya on April 15, 2009 · 1 Comment
A change in regulation in the food industry is a particularly rich source of opportunity. This source can be very important in the Philippine context depending on how it resets the technology basis for ingredients in its industry. The ban on the use of potassium bromate required new ingredients and changes on the bakery floor [...]
