Rice Bowl & Chips: How Asian Countries Are Using the Silicon Valley Model to Develop Technology Startups

by Dennis B. Posadas

Rice Bowl & Chips explains how Asian countries are using the Silicon Valley model to develop technology startups. Author Dennis Posadas enumerates the unwritten rules of innovation that have worked in Silicon Valley since the 1930’s, based on the works of scholars and other seminal works on technology entrepreneurship. Using these concepts as a benchmark, Mr. Posadas points out similarities and differences between Silicon Valley and Asian countries such as China, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea. He discusses concepts like proximity and creative destruction, intellectual property, the importance of universities, publications and patents, and the role of stock markets in encouraging venture capital. Rice Bowl & Chips tackles the research capabilities and venture capital infrastructure of the major Asian countries. The book as a whole gives the reader a holistic picture of Asian innovation at large. At the end of the book, Mr. Posadas suggests how Asian countries can use the Silicon Valley model in ways different from how the United States and other developed countries use it. Rice Bowl & Chips will be of particular interest to researchers, innovators, venture capitalists, policy makers, and those interested in Asian technology entrepreneurship.

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Published March 11, 2005

About the author

Dennis Posadas is the author of Leap: A Sustainability Fable (Singapore: Pearson, 2015), Greenergized (UK: Greenleaf, 2013), Jump Start: A Technopreneurship Fable (Singapore: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009) and Rice & Chips: Technopreneurship and Innovation in Asia (Singapore: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007).

Dennis's books with Pearson and Greenleaf have been blurbed by Bill McKibben (NYT bestselling environment author), Mary Ellen Egan (Forbes), John Vidal (The Guardian), and Eric Spiegel (CEO, Siemens USA).

He blogs at www.theasianspectator.com. He has also written a few short stories and ebooks for the Kindle platform.

His published credits include Bloomberg BusinessWeek.com, Forbes Asia, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, South China Morning Post, YaleGlobal, Dartmouth Business Journal, Singapore Straits Times, Singapore Business Times, Japan Today, UCLA AsiaMedia, UPI, Carbon Trading UK, Jakarta Post, Inquirer.net and other newspapers. He was formerly a technology columnist for the Philippine newspaper BusinessWorld.

Dennis is an engineer by training and has been a technical consultant for a waste to energy company and a low carbon transport company. He has been an international fellow (Asia-based) of the Washington, DC based Climate Institute. He was formerly an Intel Corporation fellow to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Advanced Study Program, and a former Deputy Director of the Philippines Congressional Commission on S&T and Engineering.

He lives with his wife Joy and children in the Philippines.