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.

Today December 1st is the beginning of the Cade conference 2011,

innovacion cade Successful breakfast briefing.
With the presence of entrepreneurs and SME entrepreneurs, public officials and representatives of companies and financial institutions that provide credit to this booming sector of the economy, took place on July 6 the day to present the new edition of Entrepreneurs CADE 2011.

Welcome remarks and presentation of the conference were given by Cecilia Chavez, president of the Organizing Committee, who outlined the objectives, the program issues and the professional quality of the exhibitors participating in the next edition of the conference and investment opportunities (sponsors) that could be involved companies.