Economist, Centennial Asia Advisors

Nicholas Chia

Centennial Asia Advisors deliver timely and accurate economic and political analysis to investors, focused on anticipating key turning points that affect the client’s interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Clients include public agencies and central banks, as well as fund managers and investment banks. The company draws strength from its flexibility to tailor products to fit client’s specific interests. It provides detailed macro-economic forecasts, scenario analysis and timely assessments of how specific major economic and political developments may affect a client’s areas of interest. At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way.

Economist

Regional Economics: Can Asian Economies Innovate?

Centennial Asia Advisors

At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way. With over 30 years experience covering Asia’s political economy, you can be sure our conclusions and analyses are based on the unadulterated facts. Through years of fine-tuning our research methodologies, we deliver a quality of macroeconomic analysis few other houses can match.

Centennial Asia Advisors is an independent research and advisory firm that works with governments, multilateral institutions, financial firms and leading MNCs.

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Macroeconomics

<ul><li>We rejigged the Bloomberg rankings on innovation to show that innovation efficiency – how well countries turn innovation inputs into actual desired outcomes – is weak even in parts of Asia that got on to the index in the first place.</li><li>While Singapore and South Korea ranked highly in the index, they fared worse than Japan, China, Malaysia and Hong Kong on innovation efficiency.</li><li>The winners in the new economy will not be those with the capacity to mobilise massive resources for innovation. Rather they will be those who are prepared to make the policy changes necessary to build the complex eco-systems needed for innovation efficiency.</li></ul>

We rejigged the Bloomberg rankings on innovation to show that innovation efficiency – how well countries turn innovation inputs into actual desired outcomes – is weak even in parts of Asia that got on to the index in the first place.While Singapore and South Korea ranked highly in the index, they fared worse than Japan, China, Malaysia and Hong Kong on innovation efficiency.The winners in the new economy will not be those with the capacity to mobilise massive resources for innovation. Rather they will be those who are prepared to make the policy changes necessary to build the complex eco-systems needed for innovation efficiency.

Bloomberg Innovation Index Highlights Key Weakness in Asian Innovation