Digital Posters Read more about Digital Posters Digital posters featured at the Poster Gallery during the Innovation Fair
LinkedIn Profile Clinic Read more about LinkedIn Profile Clinic LinkedIn Profile Clinic is a 15-minute makeover session for ADB staff’s LinkedIn Profiles to reflect the innovation skills of ADB staff, delivered by Branding and Communication Expert Neal Moore. Staff also got a new headshot from the LinkedIn Profile Booth.
John Rubio Keywords facebook innovation John Rubio knowledge management Read more about John Rubio John Rubio is the Country Director of Facebook. Prior to joining Facebook, John was the Founding CEO of Mynt, a mobile financial services startup of Globe Telecom and Ayala Group in the Philippines, which provides mobile payments, online and offline merchant acquiring, and alternative lending. With Alibaba’s Alipay subsidiary acquiring 45% of the company in September 2017, the company was valued at $100m.
Innovation Fair Slide Summary Read more about Innovation Fair Slide Summary This slides presents summary of the Innovation Fair
Regulatory Sandboxes: An Enabling Environment for Financial Services Innovation Read more about Regulatory Sandboxes: An Enabling Environment for Financial Services Innovation A regulatory sandbox is a formal regulatory initiative to live-test new products, services, or business models on a time- and scope-limited basis. This helps to determine the appropriate regulatory treatment or status of innovative solutions to enable them to safely operate in the marketplace. This session explores the following issues:
Daniel Aklil Keywords renewables smart grid energy storage innovation Pure Energy Centre Read more about Daniel Aklil Daniel Aklil is the CEO of the Pure Energy Centre and an Expert for the European Commission, a UK EPSRC Proposal Peer Review Expert as well as an advisor to the Polish Grant Research in Renewables, Smart Grid, Energy Storage and Innovation programs. Dr. Aklil is an expert in H2, O2, N2 technologies with over 20 experience focused on supply chains, techno-economic analysis, business planning, and identification of new market trends. Dr. Aklil is a co-author of the Elsevier “Hydrogen Encyclopaedia” and “Life After Oil”.
Solar Energy: It's Not Just Electricity Read more about Solar Energy: It's Not Just Electricity The presentation acknowledges the role Solar Energy has played in transforming the Electricity sector around the globe and its indispensability to the cause of displacing high emission intensity technologies from the electricity sector, in light of the global commitment under COP 21 of UNFCCC. The presentation attempted to analyze the impact of the deployment of solar energy in achieving sustainable development goals.
Technology for Innovation in the Age of 4IR Read more about Technology for Innovation in the Age of 4IR Learn how to leverage technology in the age of Fourth Industrial Revolution, and how this can help address development challenges in Asia.
Discussion on “Demographics and Innovation” Read more about Discussion on “Demographics and Innovation” In discussing the presentation on “Demographics and Innovation” by François Derrien, the speaker noted that the paper successfully gathered various data to control for factors that appear to be correlated with age structure and innovation. She also underscored the policy implications of coping with an aging population, such as incentivizing childbirth and encouraging younger and skilled immigration. She further expressed curiosity on whether the authors would draw a similar conclusion if their analysis would be conducted using data from Asian countries.
Demographics and Innovation Read more about Demographics and Innovation Are younger labor forces more innovative? The authors attempt to answer this question using the native-born labor force projected based on local historical births in the US. They used three successive levels of analysis to eliminate or examine effects such as firm and inventor life cycles. They also established that innovation activities reflect the innovative characteristics of younger labor forces, and firms in younger labor markets have higher valuations.