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Posted by m beduya on June 20, 2010 · 2 Comments
Innovation is broadly defined as bringing something new to market successfully. Thus, by definition, successful innovation – be it from technology or from new ways of organizing work – have people as its subject and object. In turn, successful innovation is the best and sustainable way to create value-added from total factor productivity (TFP) that [...]
Posted by m beduya on June 10, 2010 · 2 Comments
As shown again by the IPhone 4, Apple’s growth strategy is just planned product obsolescence with a twist. In the olden days of three-to-five year product development cycles, planned product obsolescence, and therefore consumer upgrades, was driven by annual style changes. In the much shorter product cycles of recent years, Apple is the champion of [...]
Filed under Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model · Tagged with Apple, brand development, emerging markets, increasing returns, innovative entrepreneurship, iPad, James Utterback, product development, product innovation, product obsolescence, Steve Jobs, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on June 8, 2010 · 10 Comments
As with China now, emerging market Japan was accused of using an undervalued currency to build an export machine. Indeed, they may have dragged increasing the value of their currency to maximize yen returns until it became untenable for the country. Still, there were other explanations for their success that involved social innovation systems like [...]
Filed under Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with change management, emerging Japan, emerging markets, just-in-Time, kaizen, National Innovation Systems, productivity, Richard Schonberger, skunk work, Social Innovation, total factor productivity, toyota production system, TQC
Posted by m beduya on May 20, 2010 · 9 Comments
Filipino progressives would love to emulate the strong state approach of Korea to attain industrialization. Alice Amsden, a heterodox economist, wrote Asia’s Next Giant, South Korea and Late Industrialization in 1989, the same year as the fall of the Berlin wall, and described the successful Korean breakout experience to developed country status. Agreeing with some [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation · Tagged with change management, countervailing powers, intensive learning, Korea, National Innovation Systems, Philippines, Political Economy, productivity, Richard Nelson, social contract, Social Innovation, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on April 27, 2010 · 13 Comments
Much can still be learned but for Post-industrial Philippines. Professor Chu Wan-wen was one of the speakers at the 7th Asialics Roundtable session in Taipei. Her talk on Taiwan and “second-mover advantage” made me look up and buy her book, Beyond Late Development, (with Alice Amsden). Today, I just finished reading the book. I am [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Akamatsu Kaname, ASIALICS, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Caesar Cororaton, DUI-Learning, flying geese, innovation systems, intensive learning, Philippines, productivity, Social Innovation, Taiwan, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on February 21, 2010 · 9 Comments
Hypothesis on systems of innovation for emerging markets from Denmark, Israel and New Zealand Filipinos, in general, are America-centered especially in learning about new things. In one sense, this is correct as America leads the world in many technologies. In another, it is not appropriate because there can be no bigger disparities than between America [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Books and Journals, Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Classic Nurturing - Industry Clusters and Science Parks, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Caesar Cororaton, competence-building, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, innovation, National Innovation Systems, Philippines, productivity, STI-Learning, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on February 1, 2010 · 2 Comments
A screening poll for SYNTHESiST readers to know ourselves more I have created a screening survey below (on 2/2 posted on Sidebar, too.) to know how the group’s choices affect innovation, in the long term. Please choose one answer as honestly as you can. Your choice represents an important part of the collective voice of [...]
Filed under Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Financing of Innovation, Innovator Peso, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with change management, emerging markets, financing innovation, Innovator Peso, Philippines, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on December 30, 2009 · 19 Comments
Adapting Professor Bengt Ake Lundvall’s ideas for the Philippines Productivity is the true source of wealth for any nation, in the final analysis. And sustaining productivity requires for that nation to innovate continuously on its productivity base. Nations follow different strategies for innovation. The Philippines has survived through a strategy of trading services – by [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Caesar Cororaton, change management, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, GLOBELICS, innovation systems, Joseph Schumpeter, Philippines, productivity, STI-Learning, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on November 16, 2009 · 12 Comments
Cororaton says TFP was negative for 35 years to 2000 Dr Caesar Cororaton, formerly of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), said in his paper that for 35 years through 2000, factor accumulation accounted for all growth and Technical Change (another name for TFP) was negative for most of the same period. From his [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with ASEAN, Caesar Cororaton, competence-building, DUI-Learning, emerging markets, factor accumulation, intensive learning, National Innovation Systems, Philippines, productivity, productivity improvement, resource mobilization, technical progress, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on November 2, 2009 · 1 Comment
Corruption and poverty are problems to be solved Professor William J. Baumol gave me an epiphany. His 1990 journal – Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive and Destructive – showed me a link between the two biggest problems of the Philippines, corruption and poverty. His paper also gave a hint at a possible solution to the problems in [...]
Posted by m beduya on October 26, 2009 · 1 Comment
BYD goes from rechargeable batteries to electric cars BYD Auto is the prime example of successful innovation and entrepreneurship from the application of ‘adjacency’ strategy. BYD expects to become the largest car company in the world within five years – and with electric cars, at that. It will end up to be the most innovative, [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Environment and Need for Sustainability, Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, National Innovation Systems, Supply Chain Logistics and Transport · Tagged with adaptive research, adjacency, change management, Convergence, entrepreneur, innovative entrepreneurship, intensive learning, product innovation, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on October 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Filipino companies and entrepreneurs hardly do any basic science-based research. All the while, I have thought this to be only because of the high cost and uncertainty of doing such research. I have come to realize that they know it is less risky (and more rewarding) to take opportunities from inefficiencies in the local economy [...]
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