2012
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The EnviroQuantum Companies
Rodrigo A. Guajardo
Efevretis
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An examination on when a community, a
region, or country is in economic disarray, sometimes the introduction and
integration of Bioeconomics with the existing Human Capital, conveys a
stable socio-economic development, a sustainable industry, and bonanza for
the region. This study encompasses
the inclusion of the human stock of competencies, knowledge, social and
personality attributes, including a technological creativity to be embodied
in the ability to perform labor, so as to produce economic value.
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http://www.enviroquantum.com
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Table of Contents
Human
Capital & Bioeconomics
Human Capital
The
concept and notion of “Human Capital” refers to the accumulation of a set of
mastered skills and applicable knowledge that is an intrinsic part of the
capacity and ability of individuals (humans) to perform, execute, and carry out
labor. Labor is a precious
commodity. It is a measure of the work
done by human beings so as to produce an economic value, which is the value of
the labor itself, and the value of its use as to produce a worth in exchange
for the labor.
These abilities
that make up the human capital are highly diversified and heterogeneous; with
high and low ends in technology and knowledge, all require some level of
expertise to yield a tangible value. The
ability to perform labor that requires high technological level and vast
knowledge does not necessarily mean that this labor will yield a higher value
in exchange. An example of this is that
in impoverished countries a nanotechnology engineer will struggle to survive
and to find a job, while a construction worker will earn his living with less
difficulty and more opportunities.
In order
for a nation to attain a relevant advantage and effectively benefit from a
superior output of manufacturing, it needs to be in possession and control of a
particular resource or commodity. This
particular resource can also be a particular technique or knowledge that
enhance and escalate production proficiency by reducing the need for massive
supplies and resources, or it can be a labor stock, a fungible resource whose
distinctive pieces are capable of reciprocal substitution, or a “know-how”
principle, thus reducing the adverse risk of changes in international trade
that are normally ruled by the technological levels, sophistication, and
complexity of countries.
How do we develop the Human Capital to become effective and to produce a high value in exchange?
I think
the answer to this riddle resides in the application and fusion of Bioeconomics
and Human Capital. According to the American economist Gary
Becker (1930- ), we use sociobiology to explain human behavior in a capitalist
economic system, where maximizing the focus of behavior, the market equilibrium
and established inclination is the key for an effective and sustainable
economic approach. I do believe that
there is also the necessity to generate fungible resources, standardized and
easily interchangeable to uphold and cultivate labor, commodities, resources,
and markets.
This would
steadily lead to a security in the sustainment of labor, to a decrease of the
unwelcomed effects of the technological gap between countries, and to the
lessening of regional economic hardships where other countries have a ruthless
trade advantage because of their tremendous ability to innovate. A country can achieve extreme technological efficiency and reach tremendous trade
advantages, but it is always vulnerable of a trade deficit as of result of
disproportionate internal production costs and labor unrest.
Adam Smith (June 16, 1723 – July 17, 1790)
Adam Smith was a prominent western social
philosopher from the school of Classical Economics born in Kirkcaldy,
Scotland; and a pioneer of what we know as "political economy". He developed ideas such as Classical
economics, where his work "The Wealth of Nations"
published in 1776 is considered the
beginning of classical economics. Other ideas such as modern free
market, where prices are determined by supply and demand; the division of
labor, which talks about the specialization of cooperative labor in
specific, hemmed in specific tasks and roles alike; and coined the metaphor the
"invisible hand", a term modern economists employ to
describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace. Adam Smith defines Human Capital as:
“Fourthly, of
the acquired and useful abilities of all the inhabitants or members of the
society. The acquisition of such talents, by the maintenance of the acquirer
during his education, study, or apprenticeship, always costs a real expense,
which is a capital fixed and realized, as it were, in his person. Those talents,
as they make a part of his fortune, so do they likewise that of the society to
which he belongs. The improved dexterity of a workman may be considered in the
same light as a machine or instrument of trade which facilitates and abridges
labor, and which, though it costs a certain expense, repays that expense with a
profit.”.
Strategic Remuneration
The way we
pay our employees determine if they are treated as humans beings, or simply as
a commodity. It is sad to realize that
most companies do not have workers in their ranks, but cashable commodities
that can be sacrificed to recover from financial losses, or used to cover lack
of profits. The company simply will get
rid of their workers to savage the profits of the administration and the
stockholders. In this there is no
dignity or moral demureness, and the human beings are traded as a simple
commodity of a spare value.
The only
irreplaceable asset that any industry will ever have, is their workers; their
Human Capital. An enterprise without
Human Capital, of any size, cannot exist.
The most successful businesses and the most flourishing countries will
be those that understand the value of their Human Capital, and treated with
respect, fairness, and dignity. Fair
wages will always secure the management of Human Capital in the most effective
and efficient manner and provide the company a steady and secure pace to a
balanced growth.
Strategic
remuneration is not about tactics, but about fairness to establish the
difference between treating your labor force as Human Capital, or as a
commodity. Human Capital possesses
social capital, commodities; not. Social capital is the predictable reward of collective social prosperity and economic
benefits, consequential to the better treatment and collective cooperation
between individuals and groups; and companies and countries. Commodities cannot do this simply because the
advantage of "knowledge" in any group
or society, begins, stays in
motion, and ends with people.
"The foundation of the health of your wallet rests on
the health of your worker's wallets".
- Me.
Bioeconomics
Bioeconomics is the theory of economic exploitation of
living resources. These resources are
associated with two dynamic systems: population dynamics and the dynamics of the economic system of the
target region; where the population dynamics determines the availability and
capacity of the labor force, and the economic system is the combination of the various
agencies, entities, and/or sectors that provide the economic structure that
defines the social community and their capacity to compete in the market.
In our
format and method, Bioeconomics is defined as an economic mechanism that seeks
to manage renewable resources so as to create or as to optimize, a computation
of net present value. In order for these
to succeed, these concepts must be reeled into an institution capable of
managing and make these concepts work.
Why into
an institution? When transactions and
information are difficult to implement and to maintain, and when business
dealings are costly, and the exchange of values between supply and demand are
non-simultaneous or reciprocal; then institutions make a difference. They become of importance because the volume
of the trade of goods under turbulent circumstances can impair the
industry. The industry can be severely
affected by labor behavior, raw material availability, political unrest,
economic opportunistic behavior, governmental agency interference, and social
stability.
Solidly
established institutions can constrain and manage these disruptive behaviors,
allowing the partakers to take advantage of the gains from trade and
specialization that Bioeconomics brings.
Institutions also facilitating cooperation, bring stability, and entice
individuals to adhere to institutional rules because they achieve security and
regulatory stability by doing so. The
individual advantages derived from a well established and solid institution
towards its members, are indivisible from the structure of the institutions and
from the profit of its members; serving this way to the interests of the group,
as well as those of the individual.
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (4 February 1906 – 30 October 1994)
Nicholas
Georgescu-Roegen, born as Nicolae Georgescu in Constanta, Kingdom of
Romania. He was a brilliant Romanian-American mathematician, an
statistician, and a prolific economist.
Georgescu-Roegen's
contribution to social economics was his development of a comprehensive theory
of economy, society, and biophysical constraints. He called this new approach "Bioeconomics" and published his
most accessible statement of it in this Review,
in 1977. Bioeconomics -also: Biophysical
Economics, or the origins of Ecological Economy- is the study of the dynamics
of living resources using economic models.
"Indeed Georgescu first put forward
"Bioeconomics" as a discipline based on parallel knowledge and
application of social, economical, and biophysical principles and emphasized
the importance of an understanding on the reciprocal influence of these
principles".
- © Kozo Mayumi and
John M. Gowdy 1999.
Respect for the land and its inhabitants
The land
is not just the land, and does not belong just to us. We share this planet with animals, insects,
plants, marine creatures, and other human beings. We are experts in displacing, destroying, or
annihilate other species in favor of our own survival; but it does not have to
be this way. We can be more
conscientious of the other creatures of the planet, and we can try to maintain a balance between them,
and our survival. Consideration is a
small word with a gigantic content, and every time we are considerate, we grow
as human beings. We have invented
respect, dignity, and fairness, and we should share these principles with other
creatures to live in harmony without living on a severe moral diet. Coexistence and survival are harmonic
principles integrated to BioHumaNomics.
So, how we make all of this work?
Although
the formula seems to be very simple, the concept and its implementation are
more difficult and tricky to put into practice, and moreover; maintain it in a
balanced and enduring manner. History
has shown that when a community, a region, or country is in economic disarray,
sometimes the integration of Bioeconomics into the existing Human Capital
happens by chance, out of despair, and sometimes out of survival necessity.
Let’s take
rice, for example. Rice is fundamental
in Asia , and it has a long and interesting
history.
In regions
of Asia , scientists believe that after the
lands long inhabited by humans were flooded, all living vegetation, plants, and
flora were destroyed. Then, the
destruction of the Biota brought animal extinction, thus making hunting very
difficult and sustainment for human beings was extremely difficult, if not
impossible. One day, as the ancient, but
popular tale tells, a dog came scampering across a hunting field, and it was
sighted by the chinese hunters who were looking for prey in the field. As the hunters carefully approached the dog,
they noticed that the dog’s fur was scattered with some unusual yellow seeds
affixed to it. The chinese people
thought that it could be seeds and not knowing what these kernels were, they tasted
them, bite them, and finally took them home, and planted them. As a result, according to the folkloric
story, rice grew out of these seeds.
All of the
sudden, this small, miraculous grain that awkwardly arrived on a dog’s back,
fed tens of millions of people for extended periods of time, longer than any
other known grain did until that time.
Several species of rice are in existence, but it is widely believed that
rice species were developed from other forms of it, towards the end of the
Tertiary Period, almost at the end of the Miocene Epoch and the beginning of
the Pliocene Epoch, approximately 15 million years ago. We humans showed up next in the Quaternary
Period, about 1.6 million years ago.
Early
evidence from archeologists’ findings showed that rice was a commodity and a
significant economic factor dating back as early as 2500 BC during the late
Neolithic period in the Yangtze basin.
In 1966, an important discovery in South East Asia
was made by Wilhelm G. Solheim II, an American anthropologist, son of Wilhelm G. Solheim I, a botanist. He found fragments and remains of pottery
that had clear imprints of rice on them.
These olden ceramic objects were discovered in Nakorn Ratchasima , Thailand
The
chinese people in due course gave rise to a process of growing and producing
rice, developed knowledge to do it properly, and employed tens of thousands of
people to bring to fruition this massive industry. Today, this long-standing system is still
widely used in China China
So there
you have it. An alliance between human
capital and Bioeconomics was born out of necessity, curiosity, and survival
neediness, and this relationship is still alive and productive. No knowledge and or skills were present at
the beginning, but they were developed and incorporated later.
Now, can we create today a model combining Human Capital and Bioeconomics today?
In my
humble opinion; yes, of course we can!; and we can do this engaging the help of
a prehistoric specie form the Miocene Period, more than 10 million years old,
and more than 7.5 million before man walked earth: The Agaves.
I have
been working on the development of a socio-economic and geopolitical model with
a large foundation that rests on an industry of eco-products and
bio-commodities, and with the intention to foster a profitable business, but at
the same time, acting from a sense of fiduciary duty, responsibility, and
conscientiousness to Human Capital and to the fragile human race.
I
faithfully believe that today in several parts of the globe exist unexploited
gold mines of opportunity based on Bioeconomics, powered by Human Capital, and
backed by the “know-how” principle. I
consider these the three magic ingredients for the healthy and prosperous
development of regions, countries, and humans.
Paradigm
History has had
an instrumental influence on the model of this project, specifically by the
historic annals of the Magnoliophyta Agavaceae plant family, and the peninsula of Yucatán
Like everything
else this utopia evolved and near the 1850s, the fate of this industry changed
radically. Industry practices, science,
technology and the omnipotent progress of commerce rendered vulnerable this
trade in Yucatán, and before long brought the industry to its knees. The wealth in Yucatán has been dormant since. Today, the abundance of this remarkable plant
genus and its treasures within is virtually limitless in the region, offering a
plentiful source of raw material.
The industrial
and economic business concept developed for the dormant riches of Yucatán is
based on a series of revolutionary “green” bio-commodities, environmentally
safe products; a unique line of products which is derived in part from the
Magnoliophyta genus; but it is also the result of a long and exhaustive process
where the local conditions were analyzed, problems and opportunities were
recognized, and targets, goals and objectives identified. There are specifically designed strategies to
accomplish those goals and objectives, harmonized activities conceived to
implement such strategies to finally, set foundation to evaluate progress.
Based on these
fundamentals I see a solid opportunity to reactivate and invigorate the
bio-industry, its abundant by-products, to create a solid economic base, and to
establish a wide industrial foundation to serve a number of products; for the
common benefit of the region and the human Capital that inhabit the zone. A multidisciplinary commercial foundation can
be established to support the systematic building of the Magnoliophyta
Agavaceae industry in a determined region, aimed to surpass the economic growth
of the past, and complemented with safety contrivances to prevent a possible
economic and commercial failure.
In the case of
Mexico, this vision of growth and development is mirrored in the Treaty of the
States of the Gulf of México . This international agreement was signed in
1995 by the governors of eleven combined States of México, and the United States , where Alabama ,
Florida , Louisiana ,
Mississippi , and Texas
are on the U.S. side, and Campeche , Quintana Roo , Tabasco , Tamaulipas ,
Veracruz Gulf of México – with the
objective of defining mutual interests, forming consensus, and building a
political willpower to craft new programs in the areas of domestic protection
and security, economic development, education, agriculture, and commerce. With the determination of working together
within the agreement, these bordering states have taken significant steps towards
the goals of developing the commercial, tourism, and infrastructure progress
under NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement).
The
"Bioeconomics-Human Capital" hypothesis is guided by a new natural
anti-corrosive technology called Averter™.
This multifarious Averter™ is a novel hydro-colloidal compound assembled
into a bio-base formulation. This
industry can bring economic development and the benefits of technology transfer
to the area through the implementation of Bioeconomics and its fusion with the element that is
abundant in the region: Human Capital.
Then, we incorporate the little known secret of our “knowhow” little
secret.
Modern Neoclassical Economics versus Ecological Economics
"Neoclassical
Economics" its a catchy and preppy term used by
modern self appointed avant-garde economists when referring to economic fields that spotlight calculation of prices, productivity,
and proceeds distributions in the marketplace through the
forces of supply and
demand. This simple principle (supply and
demand) it is frequently
arbitrated through a hypothesized capitalization of transitive, complete, and continuous utilities or services by earnings-restricted people; and by the
neoclassical microeconomic term "profit" by cost-constrained firms, in concordance
with the "Rational Choice
Theory".
Neoclassical
Economics presupposes non-abrasive economics, continuously symmetrically balanced, where the trade spheres and its
commodities are concurrent and coincident.
It also assumes that the trade negotiators and their sophisticated
instruments have dominance of
knowledge. Really?... Neoclassical Economics are dead.
David Colander (November 1947 - present)
David C. Colander is the Christian A. Johnson
Distinguished Professor of Economics at Middlebury
College. He is known for his study of
the economics profession itself, and the sociology of economics. His books The Making of an Economist and its later edition, The Making of an Economist,
Redux, have been called "essential reading for prospective graduate
students". He has
authored over 35 books and 100 articles on a wide variety of subjects. On IDEAS, he is listed in the top
5% of authors in a number of categories.
He has expressed interest in complexity
economics. His latest
work focuses on economic education, complexity, and the methodology appropriate
to applied policy economics.
- Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Colander.
"The term “neoclassical economics” was
born in 1900; in this paper I am proposing economist-assisted terminasia; by
the powers vested in me as president of the History of Economics Society, I
hereby declare the term neoclassical economics dead. Let me be clear about what I am sentencing to
death—it is not the content of neoclassical economics. As I will discuss below,
it is difficult to determine what that content is, and even if I wanted to kill
the content, I have no role in determining content. The role of historians of thought is to
record, not determine, content. What I
am declaring dead is the term."
- David Colander, Journal of the History of
Economic Thought, Volume 22, Number 2, 2000.
However
On the
other hand, "Ecological Economics" is a a research strategy that encompasses different
disciplinary boundaries, in other words;
it is a transdisciplinarity research with objectives that set sights on the
interdependence and coevolution and
balance between human
economic enterprises and the conservation of natural ecosystems.
Now this, is real.
Ecological
and Environmental economics are different in their approach, but both boast
sustainability, and we are committed to turn these into a cooperative and
alloyable approach to accomplish our goals of integrating Bioeconomics and
Human Capital.
BioHumaNomics (Rodrigo A. Guajardo, 19.. - and still vibrant)
I had the
crazy idea of calling this multifarious and proactive concept of combining
Bioeconomics, Human Capital, the levelheaded part of Neoclassical Economics
and the principles of Ecological
Economics, and a selected potpourri of ideas from Biophysical Economics
and the sound principles of Ecological Economy: "BioHumaNomics".
From another point of view, BioHumaNomics can be referred as an inspired
new archetype of the down-to-earth art of complicated simplicity.
In BioHumaNomics,
I put the same equilibrated weight and importance in the inputs, value, and
harmony of earth resources, human work, and the interdependent economic bond of
both. Harmony of principles will lead to
synchronization of mechanisms, therefore; leading to the plentiful benefits of
generous and stable outputs.
In order
to successfully implement and maintain these branches of learning, it must
exist a stretch interrelationship and a realistic association between
discipline, respect, care, dignity, responsibility, and profit; altogether fast
spiraling ideas into the vortex of an anthropocentristic movement.
Discipline
In its original and most
pure sense, discipline is the voluntary regulation of our behaviors, and
furthermore; the methodical teachings provided
to civilized people to educate them on the proper procedures for any activity which they will perform.
Self-discipline can
be defined as the ability to motivate oneself to perform in spite of an
uncomfortable or difficult situation; or the pressures of a harsh state of
affairs. Some of the positive and
necessary traits coupled with self-discipline include willpower, hard work, and
persistence.
Self-discipline is a
mere product of the perseverance of willpower. While willpower is seen as the vigor and the
capacity to execute a task, self-discipline is the ability to make use of it consistently
and routinely.
In BioHumaNomics,
discipline delivers a strong relationship between willpower as to the engine of
power, and self-discipline as to the control of that engine. Discipline builds the decisive pathway to
success.
"The
first and best victory is to conquer self."
-
Plato
Respect
Respect gives
a constructive and encouraging impression of regard and appreciation for
an individual; it gives a person value.
Respect is underlined and endorsed by actions and conduct. Unambiguous ethics and moral codes are of essential
and elementary consequence to any culture.
In BioHumaNomics,
respect is one of the keystones were success is built upon, and were
self-respect is the first stone. Respect
needs to be fostered with love and care because you cannot buy it in the store.
“Respect yourself and others will
respect you.”
- Confucius
Care
To care or not to
care, that is the dilemma. Any
organization, group, or individual prospers when they draw off and exploit the
tremendous energy and magic that each of us harvest within: understanding, sympathy,
compassion, and the uncanny ability to reach out to link with other people.
In BioHumaNomics
this is terminally essential. Nothing
happens without people, and people are all different, therefore we have to care
for each other, look after each other, understand each other, and tolerate each
other as if we are doing it for ourselves.
Tolerance is not submission, but logical care.
“The care of human life
and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object
of good government.”
- Thomas Jefferson
Dignity
Dignity is the best
coin to pay for human conscience. Any
act without dignity towards a human being, is like a bitter victory without
glory. Dignity denotes respect and
status, and commences with proper self-respect.
Giovanni Pico della
Mirandola, an Italian philosopher of the Renaissance, granted dignity to
ideas and to beings in his "Oration
on the Dignity of Man". He told
about the dignity of the liberal arts, and his comments implied the dignity of
philosophers.
In BioHumaNomics we
must redraw the perception of the human's social and economic landscape, and
make it the axis of all attention, and put some dignity on the Human Capital's capacity
and its humanitarian perspective.
“Dignity does not consist
in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
― Aristotle
― Aristotle
Responsibility
Since we were able
to understand words, we have being taught about responsibility, however, we
still haven't learned anything serious about it yet. Just look at the way we are organized as
humans, and the responsibility we profess to our poor planet. It is sickening.
In BioHumaNomics we
ought to embrace and practice collective and universal responsibility. This is a very weird and unfair concept because
individuals like you and me are supposed to be held responsible for other
people's actions by abiding, overlooking, or being indolent to them and their
acts, all of these, without even collaborating in these actions in an active
form; however, by going along with it, we are guilty as charged.
So, the only way to
not pay for other's errors, is to get responsibly, collectible involved.
“The price of greatness is
responsibility.”
― Sir Winston S.
Churchill
Profit
Oh, my! What a word!
There are extremely complicated explanations for this word in neoclassical microeconomic theory
that range whilst from explicit and implicit opportunity costs, economic
profit, abnormal profit , pure profit , supernormal, or excess
profit, as the case may be monopoly or oligopoly profit; or even
economic rent. In Marxian economics
would be the accumulation of capital.
And don't forget the externality costs.
BioHumaNomics
pushes for a form more tilted to social profits. These "profits" are attained
through unambiguous and unselfish social entrepreneurship. The good part of social
entrepreneurship is that financially nourish and fortifies individuals and conscientious
organizations that bear and hold up important social values that benefit communities
that have been disenfranchised emotionally, marginalized socially, or disadvantaged economically.
Between you and me,
in BioHumaNomics; profit is simply the benefit that Human Capital, resources,
and the social economy obtain for their own good and advantage. The sole focal point and center of
attention of our work is not only on revenue generation, but also on the
strengthening of humans, humanity, and the community itself.
No profit grows where no
pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect”
- Sir William Shakespeare
Something Else...
I don't want or
wish for these principles to become an "economic theory". I want it to be a hard-pedaling reality. Theories just spin their wheels on the
metaphysical and imaginative camps of endless byzantine discussions, and in deadly
sessions of "theorizing" about the future. This doesn't work because the future doesn't
exist; only the present is real. You can
argue that, but I will not considered it into my BioHumaNomics concept. So, there.
I fished from, and I
learn much of these ideas from the International Red Cross' gifted slogan: "Help Can't Wait". This are the words with the most common sense,
and are the most realistic approach to human need that I have heard in a very
long time. So, we must respect and give
dignity to humans and earth in any activity we carry out.
"We do not own Earth,
sometimes we are just an aggravating section of her Biota."
- Rodrigo A. Guajardo
Here it is how it can be done.
First,
let's review the initial inventory necessary to built a region to fulfill the
implementation requirements of this inclusive hypothesis of the baptisma: "BioHumaNomics".
The
necessary pillars to built and make this concept work, are simple and easy to
achieve, however, all of them are necessary and achievable. As an example, I will use Yucatán, Mexico,
because we have a working industry there, and we have consolidated all the
necessary elements to start the industry in a massive scale.
Raw
material. - The actual production of raw material in
rural southern Mexico
Human
Capital. –
There is a tremendous raw human capital available in rural southern Mexico Mexico
The
production of hydrocolloids require about 1-2% of highly prepared workers,
about 7% of technicians, being left at least 91% of the available work for
unskilled workers. Minimal learning is
required to sustain a job, even if the population is illiterate, which is a
positive detail because about 2.2% of the population have completed high school
in Yucatán, and only 1.5% has a college level.
Technology
for Production. –
There is no advanced technology available in Yucatán that is required to
manufacture hydrocolloids; however, we can bring and implement the new
technology necessary to produce an array of products that are
colloidal-based. In spite of the high
technological level of this manufacturing equipment, this machinery is easy to install,
cheap to maintain and replace, and relatively simple to operate.
Industrial Resources. – There is a 50-year reforestation and
cultivation program in place to reach by the year 2022 a production of raw
material of 1.1 million tons per year.
This will yield an estimated 27,500,000 liters per year of usable
material to produce hydrocolloids. The
required necessary Human Capital to sustain this growth is available.
Industrial
Infrastructure. – Southern Mexico possesses an appropriate basic infrastructure to
support economical growth to include
international airports, commercial airports, an extensive network of roads and
railroads, diversified transports, commercial ports, “maquiladoras”,
“desfibradoras”, an international commerce system in place, strong government,
a solid stock of wonderful Human Capital, direct access to U.S. markets and of
course; lots of raw material.
Global
market. – The
global market for the anti corrosive Averter™ is more than 50 times bigger than
the market in the United
States United States U.S.
The
“know-how”. – This is an important element and another difficult and sticky area
because of intellectual property implications, intangible assets issues, and
because it is also an important factor in the progression into technology
transfer in national and international environments. Also, you have to consider elements such as
patents, trademarks, and copyrights when conveying technology to someone else
because all of this independently or combined, are a powerful and tangible economic
asset. The good news is that this
technology exists and it is proven. This
technology can champion the development and implementation of this project, and
the swift manufacturing of cheap, transferable, safe, and fully biodegradable
colloidal commodities through this concept of BioHumaNomics.
This
technology (the Averter™) and the development of the project did encompassed
more than 15 years of R&D, effort, trials, ingenuity, investment, patience,
endurance, tryouts, and most important of all, an unbelievable amount of imagination.
The chief
purpose at the heart of BioHumaNomics,
is to seek socio-economic development and prosperity for the common benefit of many.
Preliminary Steps and Groundwork to Determine the Feasibility of Implementing and Developing the Averter™ Project in a Potential Environment
Preface
The steps reviewed below are performed in a
sequential and sometimes, in a parallel mode depending of the availability,
electability, capacity of sustainable inventory, and legal access to the
capabilities of a region. After that
these initials steps have been complete, a determination will be done on if the
region can support the project in a successfully and sustainable way.
Scoping out the potential of the region or the convergence of regions
One of the
early preliminary steps is to identify if the target area possesses the
agricultural capability to sustain the growth and sustainable multiplication of
several Agavaceae species. The fact that
the target area has some Agavaceae species as native stock, it does not
necessarily means that other similar species will survive. In order to measure survival perils and to
determine plant subsistence; ground mechanics has to be performed to include
ground analysis, salinity levels, acidity concentration, biota diversification,
humidity amounts, temperature differentials, weather fluctuations, insect
control, plants pests and diseases exposure, foreign contaminants; and to
research for any conflicting links between micro aggregate formation, soil
biota, biota transfer, soil organic matter dynamics, and soil tolerance. These studies has to be made as well in
plantation's convergence regions to include soil biotic activity, soil organic
matter decomposition and stabilization, and soil aggregate dynamics.
Testing the viability of the echelon in the region
Selective
plantation and industrial utilization are done by voluntary and managed
contribution to the source of raw materials needed for the manufacturing of the
Averter™. This has the advantage to
generate a continuum of agricultural cycles to ensure the provision of raw
material. However in a suburban
zone, or to the echelon of a region or a
territory, the voluntary contribution specific to the source of raw material
can prove to be insufficient, considering the volumes of product to be
manufactured. So, in selecting an
agricultural zone, we must include the echelon of surrounding lands as a potential
part of the plantations to provide growth and sustainability in the future, and
to secure safe and productive soil turnaround, to maximize soil productivity to
support a region's redundant viability strategy. The goal of our long-term focuses in work
that strengthens and safeguards the region’s viability and sustainability for
the long term, rather than confine our efforts to short-term goals.
Assessment of the region's idiosyncrasy and government
Local (or
national) idiosyncrasy is of utmost and paramount importance, and also a
critical component for success in the Age of Globalization; this is because
idiosyncrasy alone is responsible for the generation of new paradigms. At the end, the innate idiosyncrasy of a
human group will (or will not) embrace this industry. Political idiosyncrasy, social idiosyncrasy,
and government idiosyncrasy live always together in an explosive and unstable
environment; no matter how "civilized" is a country or a region,
however, there are some factors that are common to them, and are also items
that bring stability and progress; such as the creation of fairly paid jobs,
proactive social development, the creation of vertical markets, and the
implementation of independent economies of scale. If the idiosyncrasy and the government of a
region embraces this project, the chances of long-term success are excellent.
Demographics, Economy Data, Human Capital and Ethnolinguistics
Although
we know that Morocco possesses a demographic and an economic census data which
breaks roughly into these areas: Population, Languages, Status of women, Main
populated areas, Education, Vital Statistics, Ethnic groups, Religions, and
Literacy; the specifics on a determined region potentially apt for our
industry, especially regarding its stock in Human Capital and skill sets, are
unknown for us now. We have to create
an inventory of items such as age range, income range, number of supporting
business by type and category, industry class and their grouping, and legal and
social organization in the geographic area, and that is compatible with our
category of business. Ethnolinguistics
is important not only for communication, but because they are a close relationship between language and culture,
and the way different ethnic groups perceive the world, and it is a natural
combination between ethnology and linguistics. Ethnolinguistics refers to the way of life of
an entire community, including all the characteristics which distinguish one
community from another. Those characteristics
make the cultural aspects of a community or a society.
Evaluation on the possible implementation of Bioeconomics
Since the
science of Bioeconomics deals
with the
economics of living resources exploitation and population dynamics, this influences greatly the dynamics of economic systems. For these reasons, the coexistence and
coordination of Human Capital and renewable resources are critical for the
success of this industry. A detailed knowledge
of the dynamics governing these factors and its longevity, are a chief concern
for the stability and progress of the industry; also it is important the
viability of implanting Bioeconomics in a new region.
Invasive species
"Invasive
species", "Non-native species", or "Invasive Exotics"
plants or animals that normally affect
adversely the bioregions they invade, are coined terms used to depict certain
flora and fauna. These foreign species,
who disrupt a biota by taking over imposing a dominant and forced colonization,
propagate themselves until they exercise complete hegemony in a region, by
disrupting the region's natural controls by forming a "phytocoenosis"
-or a community of plant species-, restricted and contained to a designated
biogeographical area. Collected data on
risks and effects posed by invasive species on other environments have been
quantified and re-quantified many times by experts, and nothing good has ever
come out of these arbitrary conclusions.
Even the name of this singularity
has been tainted as mischievous sprite with poor, bad, and with
terminology and titles without imagination and of undeserved level. In any case, we must responsible assess the
potential and possible impact of our plants into the new environment.
Assessment of skills set and audits of strengths
This is
practically our labor force inventory and its skill set needed for this new
industry. Like any new industry, the
skill set might not be available, and the labor force must be properly trained
on a specific skill. The velocity and
absorption capacity of the new skill will depend directly on the strength
(capacity to learn) of the labor force, and in its education level. Our ability to compare the current skills set
within the targeted region with its
future needs, and our capacity to create a skills development map in its absence;
will be challenging to say the least.
Therefore, training and development of personnel are our most strategic
imperatives to ensure we keep a competitive edge, in the local and global
market. This in itself can put a strain
on available resources, whilst moving focus away from our project core business
activities.
Assessment of public industrial infrastructure
An empirical investigation of the correlates of
industrial development in an target area of
backward economy, can reveal interesting facts. Although the individual items of
infrastructure contribute a lot to industrial development, a sustainable
industrial development rests in the industrial infrastructure as a whole. The overall
contribution of infrastructure to industrial development establishes a
highly significant coefficient of composite indices of infrastructure variables
such as uneven levels of proficiency or coverage of the infrastructure as a
whole. We have to consider the cost
associated with the need for implementation of new infrastructure; or the
improving of the existent industrial infrastructural facilities to a large
extent to accommodate for the desired level of industrial development. Appropriated industrial infrastructure of services
and facilities with a basic physical and organizational configuration are necessary for the operation of our enterprise, and for the
industrial economics to function.
Assessment of environmental impact
We must
complete a thorough environmental impact assessment to evaluate the
possible positive or negative impacts that our project may have on the
environment, and on the environmental, social and economic aspects of the
region. The sole purpose of the
assessment, is to make certain that decision consider the ensuing environmental
impacts when deciding whether to proceed with our project, or not. As well as noticeable direct effects,
industrial developments cause a whole host of indirect effects through
consumption of goods and services, production of building materials, use of
equipment and machinery, and the additional land use for other various
activities related to manufacturing and industrial services. The indirect effects of industrial
development is frequently an order of magnitude higher than the direct effects
assessed. Industrial responsibility with
the environment is of utmost importance.
Assessment of social impact and economies of scale
In industrial development, social impact refers to how our
organization's actions might affect the surrounding community. Social impacts can affect areas such as
health and community. We must consider the three basic rules of social
impact: The first rule is that social impact is the result of social forces,
including the strength of the source of impact, the immediacy of the event, and
the number of sources exerting the impact.
The second rule is the psychosocial rule that says the amount of impact
tends to increase as the number of sources increases. The third rule is that the number of targets
also affects social impact. The more targets of impact that exist, the less
impact each individual target feels. In microeconomics, economies
of scale refers to the cost advantages that our
enterprise obtains due to its expansion.
There are factors that will cause our average cost per unit to fall as
the scale of output is increased. This
affects the local economy as much as it will do to our industry. In other words, we must do things efficiently
to benefit the community, and ourselves.
Assessment of sustainability and size of internal market
For our industry, sustainability is the capacity to endure over time providing long-term jobs, industrial
output of standard quality, and renewable resources to sustain growth and
stability. For humans, sustainability is
the long-term maintenance of responsibility, which has environmental, economic,
and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of stewardship, the
responsible management of resource
use. We don't go into a region to exploit it, but
to create industry, economy, and social development. The size of the market is the greatest index
of sustainability.
Assessment of region's stance in world commerce and trade information
The
region's connectivity to world commerce is mapped out by its capacity to
trade. At the center of this paradigm is
the concept of Globalization.
Globalization is an umbrella term and has many dimensions that relate to
every fields in economics and social development of a region. In order for a region to participate in
globalization, it must have strong pillars to sustain economics (related to
globalization in trade, money, corporations, banking, capital), political
(science, governance, wars, peace, intergovernmental organizations,
non-governmental organizations, and regimes), sociology (communities, conflict,
classes, nations, agreements), psychology (individuals as subjects and objects
of global action), anthropology (cultures overlapping, adapting, clashing,
merging), communications (information as knowledge and tools such as the
internet), and geography (everything, provided can be anchored in a determined
space).
The region
must sustain these elements to support our industry.
Time-scale
This
refers to how long it will take to implement the Averter™ industry into a
region. Calendar time is not the same as
Business time scale. Many make the
mistake of setting dates to accomplish industrial business goals, instead of
allowing the necessary time for an industry to mature into a business; where
Calendar time equals to fractal behavior, and Business time equals to
sequential behavior. The time-scale for
an industry varies according to the complexity of the industry itself. The time-scale then, will be the timely
co-integration of the efficiency of the industry and the market exchange
platform. The calendar of industrial
development can be set in calendar time, however; the variable to this calendar
will be: adjustment.
Viability of implementing a web-based business intelligence tool
Our
business intelligence technology gives our business the ability to track,
understand, correct, and manage information within our manufacturing
facilities, and the other components of our diversified organization.
This is a valuable tool for me, and possess an strategic role in the way
we tap into the priceless data that will be stored in our operational
systems. In order for this system to
work properly, our organization must be able to fully benefit from a global,
stable, and ready-access cross-functional analysis of information. The standardization of a business
intelligence tool provides strong ROI by reducing purchase, implementation,
distribution, development, and training costs.
The target
area must have a strong and scalable platform to implement, manage, and develop
a fully integrated web-based business intelligent system.
Determination
When all
factors above have been properly studied and analyzed, and its scrutiny has
yielded positive results, and these results provide room for maneuvering, trial
and error, and for the implementation of checks and balances, a determination
on if the target area is apposite for this project can only then be made.
Preparation
Then, the
stage of preparation will be the first business phase for our technology to be
implemented into the target area.
Reference
The Bellona
Foundation is funding "The Sahara Forest Project", a project betting
to bring into being productive systems that imitate nature and its
efficiency. They are attempting to
create an ecosystem capable of producing electricity, food, biofuel, water, and
jobs.
They are planning
to use two proven technologies: Seawater Greenhouses, and Concentrated Solar
Power. Two technologies highly fragile,
expensive to maintain, and hardly transferable due to its level of technology.
The first run of
these technologies will be in Aqaba, Jordan; in a 20-hectar site plus a
corridor to bring water from the Red Sea.
They estimate the cost of or about US$25,000,000. This plan will start being executed in 2012,
to hopefully be operational by the end of 2015.
They also have
started testing this system in Qatar with hopes that they can implemented in
the Sahara Desert within the next few decades.
Moreover, efforts are being invested in a pilot plant of one-hectare in
Doha, Qatar. However, this project does
not resolve the problem of badlands.
Some think that
this is too much, too soon, too brittle, too expensive. Time will tell if this project is sustainable
and economically productive, if the money doesn't run out.
In the meantime, we
can prove the feasibility of our tenet through a Proof of Concept, we can
establish the achievability of the project, we can set standards, we can
ascertain self-sufficiency, and provide a solution; and all of this faster,
cheaper, and more efficiently.
Conclusion
The concept of BioHumaNomics
is a realistic, tangible, and realizable enterprise that can come efficiently
and successfully to the rescue of a region in economic disarray, with deficient
or non-existing of industry, with a severe lack of economic opportunities, or
with a non-competitive agricultural resources.
This project can rescue a region without industry or hope, and catapult
it to progress, economic bonanza, industry sustainability, pecuniary
opportunities, and more important of all, will convey and deliver dignity
to the most precious gem of all: the Human Capital.
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