HAVE YOU SUCCEEDED - CREATIVITY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATIONS?
When people talk about innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, what do they mean? Is there something they can do in their management so as to produce excellent products and services which are technologically value-adding and advanced.
The most competitive countries include USA, Finland, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, France, Holland, Japan and Korea, Taiwan where businesses are actively applying new technologies in all aspects of the economy to earn higher standards of living.
How do the people in these countries strive to make their people more creative, entrepreneurial or innovative?
Here is a calendar of events on this topic:-
CHRONOLOGY OF MASTER-PLAN AND CORPORATE CHANGES:-
(1) 5.3.2005 - Government announced its 10-year masterplan IN2015 to chart the direction for infocomm technology. After a while there is no more news about technology applications or new start-ups. What happen to this plan?
(2) EDB has been sending many scholars overseas to get them to become our new leaders of the future. What has happened to these scholars? Have they returned by now and started some new technology start-ups and created new jobs?
(3) MOE was supposed to have offered many foreign students new incentives and scholarships to study and find jobs here. Have these foreign talents served our objectives and succeeded in creating jobs and uplifted our people's competitiveness? What is the latest development? How many of them have succeeded in our objectives for us to do better ?
RECENT NEWS ABOUT FOREIGN TALENTS :-
Top Job Location for Silicon Valley Chinese Americans is Shanghai
News Report, Nancy Kuo,
World Journal, Mar 04, 2005
Which is the best location for personal career development according to Silicon Valley Chinese American semi-conductor professionals? The answer is Shanghai.
According to a recently released report, Shanghai, China's cosmopolitan and commercial hub, is viewed by Chinese American professionals as the city poised with the best development future. The USA, Taiwan and Beijing follow behind as choice locations. Among the decision factors to evaluate a job location, the most important is the potential for growth. The second is family and the third is quality of life.
The report further points out among all those surveyed, that half work in at least two locations. 93% work in America. Chen Jien Yun, a Taiwan University researcher and visiting scholar with the Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship pointed out 51% of those surveyed work in one location, 34% work in two, 10% work in three, 4% work in four locations. There was also 1% who commute between five working locations. Thus, there seems to be quite many "seagulls", who fly between Silicon Valley and the Pacific Rim.
One point worth mentioning ,according to Chen, is people who had not worked in Taiwan do not want to work there. But those who hadnÂ’t worked in Beijing, still hold Taiwan, not Beijing as their least favorable career location. But whatever one's background, all held favorable views on Shanghai. Among those who had college degrees from China, Taiwan and U.S., all want to work in Shanghai. Their corresponding rates are 62% (China) 39%%(Taiwan) and 47%(U.S.)
"First choice still is Shanghai,” says Mr. Wu, past president and advisor for Chinese-American Semi-conductor Professional Association. Wu had served in Shanghai the past three years. He pointed out when Chinese American professionals decide on a change of work location, Shanghai is a first choice whether it was based on growth potential, family factors or quality of life.
"Shanghai's various conditions are the closest to America's, it is the best choice for a change of professional stage," another association past president , Mr. Wang pointed out. Shanghai has talents from other countries, and different cuisines. Whether one comes from Silicon Valley, Taiwan or other places, whether one comes to start up a business or be employed in one the adjustment is easier.
This survey is a joint project of the Chinese American Semi-conductor Professionals Association and Stanford University. The survey was conducted on the Internet. In addition, it interviewed five well-established and five newcomer semi-conductor workers for additional information. The Chinese American professionals mentioned in the survey work between Silicon Valley and other American cities and the greater China area encompassing Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan and the Pearl Delta which includes Hong Kong. UNQUOTE
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