Local Inventions and Inventors

An example of a local invention is the karaoke invented by Roberto Del Rosario. He is a Filipino claiming the right for the invention of the Sing-Along-System (SAS) that eventually led to the development of karaoke, a Japanese term for "singing without accompaniment".
      


Another example is the Fluorescent Lamp ,which was invented by Agapito Flores, and now it is most widely used source of lighting in the world today.
             


The videophone is another local invention invented by Gregorio Zara. He was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and he developed the Zara effect or Electrical Kinetic Resistance.
            

Do you understand?(assignment)

For me, the characteristics are equal because it is all for the same reason which is for the necessity of people.

Can you understand?

1. Evaluate the different entrepreneurial characteristics under PECs. How does applying similar characteristics help us succeed in other areas of life? Explain your answers by giving examples.

Vigilance for Opportunities, Commitment to work Contract, Persistence, Willingness to take risks, Demand for efficiency and quality, Goal Setting, Information Seeking, Systematic Planning and Monitoring, Persuasion and Networking, and Self-confidence. These are the characteristics that are similar in helping succeed in other areas of life because the goals are likely to be the same, to achieve what you want to achieve. For example, you want to recite but you're still not sure if your answer is correct or not. But still answered. This is similar to Willingness to take risks.

2. Explain how having the Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies can help you become a successful entrepreneur.

PECs can be a help by enhancing and improving the skills and the way entrepreneurs act and perform.

Assignment No. 2

The internet as we know it today was not invented by just one person. It was the combined effort of many people that began what we now use daily both for work and enjoyment.

In 1961 there was a man named Leonard Kleinrock and he published a paper about the idea of packet switching, which is essential to the Internet. This means that packets of data can be routed from one place to another based on address information carried in the data. 

In 1962 a man named J.C.R. Licklider was the first to describe an Internet-like worldwide network of computers. He called it the "Galactic Network." His discovery was almost accidental. What an exciting accident that turned out to be.

In 1965 Larry G. Roberts created the first functioning long-distance computer networks and designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, the seed from which the modern Internet grew.

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol(TCP) which moves data on the modern Internet, in 1972 and 1973. 

From then on one person after the other added more technology, and improved the systems and almost daily something new was and still is added. It is hard to comprehend the capabilities of our computers today.

The Internet is one amazing thing and provides hours and even days of entertainment and work for almost everyone.

Assignment No. 3

Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies (PECs) 

For reference, I'm posting here the ten Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies (PECs) which seems to be used in the Business Technology/Entrepreneurship programs of the Technology and Livelihood Education (T.L.E.) subject.


The original research by McClelland and McBer identified 14 PECs; the EMPRETEC [a UN program for small businesses; from the Spanish words emprendedores (entrepreneurs) and tecnología (technology)] clustered these into just 10:


Achievement Cluster
I. Opportunity Seeking and Initiative
* Does things before asked or forced to by events
* Acts to extend the business into new areas, products or services
* Seizes unusual opportunities to start a new business, obtain financing, equipment, land work space or assistance


II. Risk Taking
* Deliberately calculates risks and evaluates alternatives
* Takes action to reduce risks or control outcomes
* Places self in situations involving a challenge or moderate risk


III. Demand for Efficiency and Quality
* Finds ways to do things better, faster, or cheaper
* Acts to do things that meet or exceed standards of excellence
* Develops or uses procedures to ensure work is completed on time or that work meets agreed upon standards of quality


IV. Persistence
* Takes action in the face of a significant obstacle
* Takes repeated actions or switches to an alternative strategy to meet a challenge or overcome an obstacle
* Takes personal responsibility for the performance necessary to achieve goals and objectives


V. Commitment to the Work Contract
* Makes a personal sacrifice or expends extraordinary effort to complete a job
* Pitches in with workers or in their place to get a job done
* Strives to keep customers satisfied and places long term good will over short term gain


Planning Cluster
VI. Information Seeking
* Personally seeks information from clients, suppliers or competitors
* Does personal research on how to provide a product or service
* Consults experts for business or technical advice


VII. Goal setting
* Sets goals and objectives that are personally meaningful and challenging
* Articulates clear and specific long range goals
* Sets measurable short term objectives


VIII. Systematic Planning and Monitoring
* Plans by breaking large tasks down into time-constrained sub-tasks
* Revises plans in light of feedback on performance or changing circumstances
* Keeps financial records and uses them to make business decisions


Power Cluster
IX. Persuasion and Networking
* Uses deliberate strategies to influence or persuade others
* Uses key people as agents to accomplish own objectives
* Acts to develop and maintain business contracts


X. Independence and self-confidence
* Seeks autonomy from the rules or control of others
* Sticks with own judgement in the face of opposition or early lack of success
* Expresses confidence in own ability to complete a difficult task or meet a challenge

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FINALLY MADE MY BLOG FOR MY SUBJECT, COMPUTER EDUCATION. :D

Entrepreneur

"Necessity is the mother of inventions"