Social Innovation Dims as Obama Abandons Stricter Air-Quality Rules 324.0
Posted by m beduya on September 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment
From a link to a New York Times article that I curated yesterday entitled Obama Administration Abandons Stricter Air-Quality Rules, I had a great discussion with my now US-based best friend in elementary that, in the SYNTHESiST lingua, can be stated in terms of subtext as the importance of context for social innovation to achieve [...]
Gloria Steinem shares lesson in change management over historical time 322.0
Posted by m beduya on August 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment
I am too young to know of Gloria Steinem, leader of the women’s movement in America, who was in the spotlight as fiery women’s leader in the late 60s and 70s. Yet watching her on Charlie Rose last night as they reminisced about the women’s movement and talked about its future, she taught me an [...]
Filed under Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation · Tagged with change management, Charlie Rose, Gloria Steinem, Social Innovation
Economic Change Must be Structural to Go Beyond Trickle Down Effects 319.0
Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima listed the “structural” reforms in the Aquino Administration’s program for economic change in a recent BusinessWorld Online article, Gov’t sets higher growth target for 2012, on June 18, 2011: The government has to pursue structural adjustments — investments in infrastructure, reforms to boost competitiveness and simplified regulations to reach the realistic [...]
Pragmatism and Hamilton for a Third Way Activist Center to Development 316.0
Posted by m beduya on June 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment
A comment by David Brooks, the conservative Op-Ed columnist in the progressive New York Times, on Charlie Rose on the need for Americans to have a new look at their own political traditions particularly Alexander Hamilton to help resolve the crisis, inspired this short post. The Framer Hamilton’s concept of strong government as well as [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy · Tagged with Campaign Finance, Francis Fukuyama, Louis Menand modern industrialpolicy, political parties, Pragmatism, Samuel Huntington, Social Innovation, The Metaphysical Club
Social Innovation in Campaign Finance to Boost the Art of Associating 313.0
Quietly, many groups are working for better political institutions like campaign finance and program-based political parties as social innovations in the Philippines. I attended a high-powered symposium yesterday – except for the absence of representatives from the key constituency of political parties – on Increasing Transparency in Campaign Finance. Symposiums like these are done to [...]
Postwar Japan Created Modern Industrial Policy and Innovation Systems 302.0
Posted by m beduya on April 11, 2011 · 2 Comments
From reading the news everyday, our instinct is to mistrust government as innately corrupt and inept in delivering welfare. Postwar Japan proved otherwise in reviving the country while creating and then using modern industrial policy and innovation systems to facilitate its dizzying growth rate from 1950 to 1972. Our neighbors South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Christopher Freeman, competitiveness, Dani Rodrik, emerging markets, IFIAS 6, industrial policy, innovation systems, Japan, productivity, Social Innovation
Business Model Innovation to Adapt to Web Technology Is Synthesistic!
Posted by m beduya on March 17, 2011 · 5 Comments
Business model innovation to add a Web-based component to the business strategy, at the level of firms, is proof that SYNTHESiST’s appreciative theory of development works. Adapting the business model is co-evolution while the Web is comprised of general purpose technologies that, with the right organization structure, enable innovation. With continuous interaction between this two [...]
Filed under Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with Amazon, business model, business model innovation, business strategy, co-evolution, Facebook, Google, Groupon, lock-in, Search, Social Graph, Social Innovation, SYNTHESiST, value-adding potential
Working on an Appreciative Theory of Economic Change and Development 293.0
Posted by m beduya on March 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Here’s a story of passion and hard work(-in-progress)! (Note: As a work around on the technical constraint between posts and pages in the template, this Post links to the Working Paper that summarizes the status, as work-in-progress, of an appreciative theory of economic change and development for emerging markets.) Please click on this link to [...]
Filed under Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy · Tagged with appreciative theory, development, economic change, innovation systems, Richard Nelson, Social Innovation, SYNTHESiST
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
Social Innovation Spurred the Economic Miracle in Germany 288.0
Posted by m beduya on February 18, 2011 · 6 Comments
Is it possible for one whole nation to engage in social innovation by negotiation among her constituencies and create an economic miracle? Yes. Through programmatic political parties, the postwar Germans did negotiate their social innovation called social market economy that spurred the postwar recovery called the Wirtschaftswunder. I will share that story taking off from [...]
Filed under Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Geographic Clusters - ASEAN, Sectors, Regions and Cities, Social Innovation · Tagged with Anthony Giddens, co-evolution, Germany, Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhard, Max Weber, social democratic party, Social Innovation, social market economy, Wirtschaftswunder
Smart Phone and Social Media Advances Make SYNTHESiST Adapt 284.0
Posted by m beduya on January 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The second year anniversary for SYNTHESiST is coming up on February 25, 2011. The need to improve content and advances in technology are driving me to innovate. SYNTHESiST has progressed some ways. Still, a lot more work needs to be done in the coming twelve months to improve itself in content and technology to improve [...]
Filed under Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication · Tagged with Android, emerging markets, Facebook, Google, innovation systems, Search, search engine optimization, SEO, smart phone, Social Graph, Social Innovation, SYNTHESiST
Social Innovation to Minimize Election-Related Violence 283.0
Posted by m beduya on January 27, 2011 · 2 Comments
At a symposium hosted by the Ateneo School of Government, Leon Trotsky and Max Weber hovered like ghosts in the throng. Their apparitions seem to glower mischievously with each repeated paraphrase of the statement: “The State has the monopoly in the use of ‘legal’ violence” [in its territory]. Speakers and participants seemed to take that [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Social Innovation · Tagged with co-evolution, counterfactual, election-related violence, emerging markets, innovation systems, Joseph Schumpeter, Leon Trotsky, Max Weber, Social Innovation, SYNTHESiST
