David Martin Opens 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Business Incubation in Coimbatore, India

Date:  Thu, 2009-08-06

David Martin Opens 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Business Incubation in Coimbatore, India

Coimbatore, India – August 6, 2009 –– Today, M·CAM Executive Chairman Dr. David Martin opens the 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Business Incubation sponsored by the World Bank’s infoDev and the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India. Dr. Martin’s keynote address covers three themes around the opportunities presented to entrepreneurs who seek to find responses to the current global economic situation. In his address, he focuses on:

Innovation Literacy – insuring that innovators and the private sector are adequately informed of the paradigms of promoting innovation;

Global Innovative Output – insuring that the focus on innovation is on customers, clients, and procurement rather than on abusive investment capital; and,

Innovation Recycling – the ability to use latent, abandoned, or repurposed innovation that has been ignored or buried in incumbent economies to fuel new enterprise options in the rest of the world.

Models of transformative engagement (in contrast to ill–conceived frameworks from the WTO and OECD promoted programs) are presented including the Heritable Innovation Trust scheme, the Peace Trade program and other forms of ethical engagement.