Appropriate Technology by Jim Ayala and HYBRID Empowers the Poor 292.0
Posted by m beduya on March 7, 2011 · 4 Comments
Bringing appropriate technology and empowering the poor is Jim Ayala’s passion. He set up HYBRID Social Solutions as a “for profit” social enterprise. It is the pioneer social distribution company in the Philippines, to empower the poor by giving access to appropriate technology. The innovative concept of social distribution builds on an insightful view of [...]
Filed under Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with appropriate technology, change management, clean water technology, co-evolution, emerging markets, energy, HYBRID, HYBRID Social Solutions, innovation, productivity, scan-adapt-diffuse, social enterprise, Social Innovation
High Productivity Allows Growth and Equity at the Same Time 243.0
Posted by m beduya on August 22, 2010 · 6 Comments
Paul Krugman, the 2008 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, says that in economies where trade is a small component of GDP as in the Philippines, the main determinant of competitiveness is domestic productivity. And, in my view, addressing development policy via domestic productivity at the industry or firm level, and not with [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Innovator Peso · Tagged with competitiveness, Hapinoy, industrial policy, Paul Krugman, productivity, productivity improvement, Rag2Riches, social enterprise, triple bottom line
Schumpeter Advocates Innovation as True Driver of Progress 233.0
Posted by m beduya on July 15, 2010 · 9 Comments
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 [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with creative destruction, entrepreneur, innovation, innovative entrepreneurship, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, social enterprise
Hapinoy – Mark Ruiz Retails Sari Sari Happiness to Filipinos 228.0
Posted by m beduya on June 28, 2010 · 9 Comments
“The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield,” begins Peter Drucker’s classic 1985 book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, quoting the French economist J.B. Say. Thus, Mark Ruiz and the Hapinoy/MicroVentures (MVI) team, all social entrepreneurs, are mining a rich vein for social enterprise [...]
Filed under Financing of Innovation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Supply Chain Logistics and Transport · Tagged with equity, Hapinoy, Joseph Schumpeter, Mark Ruiz, microfinance, Peter Drucker, Philippines, productivity, sari sari, social enterprise, Social Innovation, supply chain, sustainability, triple bottom line
Rags2Riches – Reese Fernandez Creates Value from Creativity 226.0
Posted by m beduya on June 21, 2010 · 7 Comments
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 – [...]
Books I am Reading and Pages I am Writing 199.0
Posted by m beduya on April 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
My cousin in New York, upon receiving her copy of Mabini by Majul, thanked me by email and asked. “Do you really read several books at once?” Indeed, after some thought, I realized it is a lot of work to support this blog . The picture at left shows the books in my big “To [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Miscellaneous · Tagged with change management, emerging markets, innovation, social enterprise, sustainability, Wang Yang Ming, Yoshida Shoin
Embedding Sustainability into New Enterprises 184.0
Posted by m beduya on March 10, 2010 · 6 Comments
New Zeitgest, tools and metrics are making CSV for enterprise the new norm Businesses are starting to embed sustainability into their strategy rather than just do it as a separate project under corporate social responsibility (CSR). They are starting to do this because it is beginning to make business sense. The Sagip Pasig Movement (SPM) [...]
Filed under Changes in Environment and Need for Sustainability, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Energy Water and Environment, Financing of Innovation, News and Stories, Rapid Prototyping - Incubators, Proof-of-Concept, Accelerators, Social Enterprise and Innovations, Social Innovation · Tagged with adaptive research, creating shared value, intensive learning, productivity, Sagip Pasig Movement, social enterprise, Social Innovation, sustainability, triple bottom line
Social Enterprise is the Next Big Thing – 3 of 3
Posted by m beduya on June 28, 2009 · 7 Comments
I agree with Professor Jeffrey Sachs that the continuing challenge of sustainable development will drive the future growth of social enterprises – with their triple bottom lines (defined at Post #74). In his book, Common Wealth (find Amazon link below), Professor Sachs defines these challenges as “protecting the environment, stabilizing the world’s population, narrowing the [...]
Social Enterprise as the Next Big Thing – 2 of 3
Posted by m beduya on June 23, 2009 · 8 Comments
The social enterprise – with its triple bottom line – could very well be the next, big social innovation in line with Drucker’s examples listed in Post #73. And the Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA) is in the forefront of efforts to make this a reality in the region.
Filed under Books and Journals, Social Enterprise and Innovations, Social Innovation · Tagged with AIM, Asian Institute of Management, commons, corporate social responsibility, entrepreneur, Institute of Social Entrepreneurship in Asia, Jeffrey Sachs, Peter Drucker, Philippines, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, Social Innovation, triple bottom line
From Social Innovation to Social Enterprise – 1 of 3
Posted by m beduya on June 21, 2009 · 9 Comments
Peter Drucker’s “Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” was the first book I ever studied on the subject; it was our text for Environmental Analysis in first year MBA in 1986. The book was just published the year before in 1985. In this book, he tried to codify the art and practice of Entrepreneurship – just like he [...]
