8th GLOBELICS – Making Innovation Work for Society 257.0

Through SYNTHESiST, my work to enrich the conversation on innovation systems and change management in emerging markets like the Philippines gets me to meet interesting people – scholars who move their worlds with knowledge work. In two weeks, I will attend my first GLOBELICS, the 8th Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence [...]

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 [...]

African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development – AJSTID

I am extremely happy to share the news that I have been welcomed as one of 28 associate editors of the AJSTID. The ASJTID is a new peer-reviewed journal focused on science, technology, innovation and development in the emerging nations of Africa. A print of the Table of Contents for the issue pictured above follows.

Igniting and Deepening Conversations at SYNTHESiST 166.0

Pages and Potpourri. IntenseDebate for a community. Our first year anniversary is on February 25, 2010. I am furiously preparing the ground for a better new year, with two more improvements – adding pages to deepen content by indenting and threading and comment collaboration. I may have found my domain of choice after almost a [...]

Innovation as Intensive Learning and Emulating the East Asian NIEs 103.0

Intensive learning facilitated the technological catching up process of the East Asian NIEs like South Korea and Taiwan in the 1980′s, said Professor Patarapong in his paper at ASIALICS 2009 (Posts 80, 81,82, 86 and 87). The subject fascinates. For me, the hunt goes on for innovation models to emulate so I can enrich the [...]

Philippine Innovation Mobile Phone Banking in Microfinance 100.0

For this 100th post, I am pleased to report another innovation area that I discovered the Philippines to be a global leader: mobile phone banking in microfinance. The four other areas of leadership I have reported elsewhere in SYNTHESiST are: renewable geothermal energy, PNG carrageenan from seaweeds, and SALT (Sloping Agricultural Land Technology). Innovation is [...]

SALT Innovation to Recover Denuded Forests 90.0

SALT or Sloping Agricultural Land Technology is an innovation in agro-forestry developed in the 70’s to help stop erosion and rejuvenate our deforested slopes. The benefits to the country of its successful diffusion in terms of agricultural productivity and alleviating climate change effects are monumental. STI learning on agro-forestry for erosion prevention is ready to [...]

Research and Technology Organizations in National Innovation Systems – 5 of 5

Research and technology organizations (RTOs) are government-sponsored organizations, like the DOST in the Philippines, dedicated to implementing national science and technology policies in line with a government’s development goals. Note: This is our fifth and last post on the 6th ASIALICS held in HKUST on July 6-7 (Posts 80, 81, 82, 86 and 87).

Path Breaking Technologies for Latecomer Countries – 3 of 5

The New York Times yesterday, July 13, 2009, reported. “Microsoft Office 2010 Starts Ascension to the Cloud.” (Click this link to NYT: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/microsoft-office-2010-starts-ascension-to-the-cloud/?scp=1&sq=Office%202010%20cloud&st=Search). Two months ago, on May 9, I predicted that Microsoft will install browser-based version of Excel, PowerPoint, Word in my Post #53, Opportunity from Adjacency. I did make the same prediction some [...]

National Innovation Systems for Latecomer Countries – 2 of 5

… I was not disappointed despite the often ponderous, academic approach. The ASIALICS Hongkong conference focused on two areas: first, University-Industry linkage with two keynotes on the China and India experience and, second, on the changing role of RTO’s especially comparing the European and East Asian (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) experiences.

Kuhn and Galison Defines Virtuous Cycle from New Knowledge and New Tools 10.0

The innovator takes an invention and commercializes it. Joseph Schumpeter (1950) equated innovators with entrepreneurs. He said, “the function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production. [He] is primarily responsible for the recurrent “prosperities” that revolutionize the economic organism . . .”