Asean Entrepreneurs. Cooking up businesses, why not more women?
MANILA: Dreaming of an unlimited number of new Asean entrepreneurs, they met on 29 November 2012 in Bangkok to discuss "Co-Incubation and the Opportunities for Food and Agriculture Start-Up Businesses after ASEAN Integration in 2015." The meeting was organized by the Thai Business Incubators and Science Parks Association (Thai-BISPA), the Asia-Pacific Business Incubation Network (APIN) and info Dev of the World Bank. My congratulations to Thai-BISPA, APIN, and info Dev. Yes, your meeting was inspired, but your metaphor was not. Entrepreneurship requires that you be creative. Ladies & gentlemen, the metaphor of incubation puts you in a box. You have to think out of the box. In this case, people incubate eggs, that's all they can do with eggs! I've always wondered why economists and businessmen love to say "business incubation" when referring to the creative collaboration in starting up a business based on new or improved technology. I googled for "