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Last broadcast on Sun, 19 Jun 2011, 15:05 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
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Can countries from China to Singapore and the Philippines become 21st Century hubs of innovation, places where new kinds of products and services, new brands develop? Three centuries ago, China helped Europe to innovate - can it do so again?
Around our global table, we have Poh Kam Wong, a Singaporean entrepreneur and professor of business studies, globally successful Philippine designer Kenneth Cobonpue, and Chinese writer and documentary filmmaker Sun Shuyun.
Illustration by Emily Kasriel: rays of enlightenment, rights and freedom illuminating innovation.
Poh Kam Wong
Detailed studies by Prof. Poh Kam Wong show that the pace of local innovation in places such as Singapore has increased dramatically in recent years. But is the investment and encouragement by governments in the region enough to take innovation to the next level?
Kenneth Cobonpue
Designer Kenneth Cobonpue suggests that truly iconic South East Asian designs of the future will combine local natural resources, and the exquisite craftsmanship needed to work with them, with modern materials and techniques.
Sun Shuyun
We have been told so often that good ideas about the modern world tend to come from the west that it may come as a surprise to hear that Chinese ideas shaped the European Enlightenment. Documentarist Sun Shuyun explains.
Kenneth Cobonpue's Phoenix Bamboo Rattan Car
SIXTY SECOND IDEA TO CHANGE THE WORLD
Chinese writer Sun Shuyn says that from now on, when an Asian baby is born, he or she should receive a birthday card listing their fundamental rights: freedom to speak, freedom to know, freedom to be protected by law. This way, Asian children will absorb these rights from the earliest moments of their life.
In Next Week's Programme
Why we don’t always see what we think we see, with Harvard neurologist Margaret Livingstone, Dutch poet laureate Ramsey Nasr and James Gow, Professor of International Peace and Security at King’s College, London.
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Sat 18 Jun 201109:05
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