"Particularly more investment in infrastructure is absolutely essential to get rid of some of the current (traffic) bottlenecks, more investment in education to improve human skills and allow industry and other sectors to move up the value chain, " Zavadjil said.
To demonstrate, Andy cited a study of the iPad value chain conducted by the Personal Computing Industry Center of the University of California.
By going a little further down the energy tech value chain and viewing the nascent LED industry through this familiar lens, they can walk in and let the lights come on.
One can envision these new players in the industry will assume leadership in specific roles within the value chain: Intel-like semiconductor companies building the LED chips, and equivalents of a PC motherboard manufacturer like ASUS packaging the chips into devices that will be used in a variety of end-use lighting applications.
Typically, companies in this industry manage complex and interrelated decisions that span the entire value chain, ranging from the procurement of feedstocks to production, marketing, logistics and distribution.
Increasingly, the industry is integrating vertically and firms are gaining control over the entire value chain.
"The most important thing is that Proton has now moved up the value chain and has collected the intellectual property, " says industry analyst Reza Mutalib of Merrill Lynch in Kuala Lumpur.
The big question is whether the Philippine BPO industry, having conquered the call-centre market, can now move up the value chain.
This resonates strongly in the mHealth industry where many believe future growth rests on the proliferation of open platforms across multiple facets of the value chain.
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This means that any company that has no capabilities in making and selling TVs can enter the TV industry, as long as it comes up with the sufficient capital to pay the subcontractors handling the different value chain activities.
It's a legal product with harmful effects so governments should rather focus their attention on educating people rather than going and trying and demonize the industry, drive extreme regulation, drive extreme taxation and now even right down to the most vulnerable in value chain, which are the farmers, the soft underbelly of the sector.
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