The Innovation is One of the main focusing in Perú Cusco
As business leaders meet in Cusco this weekend to focus on “Innovation” at the Annual Executive Conference, CADE, from the countryside of the Urubamba valley the author proposes looking back for truly radical and practical, high-tech innovation.
Ancient Peru was one of the half-dozen centers of the technological and political innovation that ushered in today’s complex world of great, interdependent cultures.
Unlike the other centers — China, the Fertile Crescent and Egypt, India, and finally the Mediterranean and Western Europe — most of Peru’s innovations, above all in social organization, were lost in the disaster of the Conquest.
Proud, sad bits and pieces of the ancient Andean and coastal cultures remain. The potato and a half-dozen varieties of maize have been essential parts of the food chain that is feeding 7,000 million people. China is today the world’s biggest producer of the potato, first domesticated around Lake Titicaca, and of the sweet potato, camote.
Peruvians can reflect, perhaps with mixed feelings, that it was the US$200,000,000,000, at today’s values —the figure comes from Prof. Niall Ferguson’s Civilization: The West and The Rest, published in London earlier this year— that the conquistadors sent back to Europe between 1532 and 1780, which provided the liquidity for the creation of the global economy of the 21st century.
Successful breakfast briefing.
Huayki is a quechua word that means brother .Peruvian researchers are puzzled on Friday over an oddly formed mummy found recently in the Cuzco region, the heart of Incan civilization.
According to El Comercio the ordinance, launched Mayor Luis Florez García, dictates that all the nightclubs in this part of the city must be endorsed by the National Institute of Culture (INC) in order to function. The mayor said that by allowing clubs to run, they were “not only breaking walls, enabling doors, but also bending the rules and the monumentality of the historical center [of Machu Picchu]."
