Cultural Advantage 2.0

Cultural Advantage for Cities (book)

After more than a decade Michael Porter’s book Competitive Advantage of Nations stays ahead of the other books, in particular as alternative framework from the comparative advantage idea inspired by Adam Smith.

This small book is merely a small proposition, a postscript perhaps, to Porter’s book, with basic idea that one cannot rely merely on industrial processes alone to keep stay ahead of market changes. Hence, for cities in developing countries the municipal shall find out their city’s potential resources, and develop their city starting from there, instead of striving blindly in the conventional industrial path.

What we would like to emphasize here is the word ‘alternative’ in this book title. What we mean is that the proposed strategy is not always true for all conditions. for instance, in Hawaii, where industrialization and resources are very few the best strategy is perhaps to foster its 'cultural approach'. Meanwhile for other cities where there is no extensive cultural potential, then industrialization approach seems still working.

After all we do not pretend to have the last word on proper remedies to problems encountered by each developing country. It would need substantial study based on each particular country’s problems, contexts and resources.

To read more, you can download the complete ebook in www.sciprint.org --> user --> culturaladvantage. This is zipped file with password, to get the password, send $28 via paypal.com to email: vxianto@gmail.com. Then forward the paypal notification to the same email address.

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Note: the photo shown above is Adam Smith. Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/June-2008

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