1. City Innovation Systems: The
Metro Manila Experience
Asian City Innovation Systems Initiative
Aida L. Velasco, Project Leader
Case Writers
Paulynne Castillo
Mitzie Conchada
Raymund Habaradas
Dennis Beng Hui

2. Asian City Innovation
System Initiative
Disentangle Asian innovation systems
Define city innovation systems
Design future city innovation systems

3. Disentangle Asian innovation System
• Identify and analyze complex set of innovative
activities, actors, and their interactions in the
Asian context through literature review on
innovation systems at the national, sectoral, and
regional level.

4. Define city innovation systems
• Define a new conceptual model for city
innovation systems in the context of developing
economies for policy recommendations for
innovation and urban development

5. Design future city innovation systems
• Foresight mapping, design, and development of
integrated innovation systems and urban
development

6. What is city innovation?
• New or improved solutions that contribute
towards enhance livability, prosperity, and equity
of the city

7. Philippine Innovation Strategy
• Strengthening human capital
• Supporting business incubation and acceleration
efforts
• Regenerating the innovation environment
• Upgrading the Filipino mindset

8. Metro Manila
• Commonly known as the National Capital Region
(NCR)
• Composed of 16 cities and 1 municipality
• Population: 11.6 million
• Population Density: 18,093/sq. km.
• Accounts for 33% of Philippine GDP
• Contributes 41% of the country’s total tax
collection

9. Metro Manila Land Use
City/ Land Area by Land Use Type (sq.km)
Municipality Residential Commercial Industrial Institutional Parks, roads Total
Quezon City
Caloocan
Valenzuela
Muntinlupa
Las Pinas
Marikina
Manila
Paranaque
Taguig
Makati
Mandaluyong
Malabon
Pasay
Pasig
San Juan
Pateros
Navotas
Total Area
% of Total Area

10. Governance of Metro Manila
• 1975: Metro Manila Commission
• 1990: Metro Manila Authority
• 1995: Metro Manila Development Authority
• Metro-wide services:
– Development planning
– Transportation and traffic management
– Solid waste disposal and management
– Flood control and sewage management
– Urban renewal, zoning, land use planning, and shelter
– Health sanitation, urban protection, pollution control
and public safety

11. Urban Concerns
• Transport and Traffic Management
• Flood Control
• Solid Waste Management
• Land Use, Housing and Urban Poverty

12. City Innovation
Government Academe
Socio-economic
Issues
City Innovations
Improved city
conditions
NGO and
cause-oriented Industry
groups

13. City Innovation Systems
Framework
Process Information Product
Space
Service Institution
City
Physical
Innovation
Space
Cognitive
Space
Position Paradigm

14. City Innovation Dynamics
Socio-Economic City Growth and
City Innovations
Conditions Development
*Transportation and
innovation actors
laws and policies
traffic management
*Employment resources
*Environmental
Conditions
*Housing and
land use

15. City Innovations
• Gawad Kalinga: A social innovation - addresses social
problem on urban housing and community development
• Industry Clustering Innovation: Medical Tourism
– development of more job opportunities and promotion of tourism
• Industry Academe Partneship: UP-Ayala
Technology Park – development and commercialization of
new technology through industry-academe-government collaboration

16. Aspects of Innovation
Aspects of Gawad Kalinga Medical Tourism UP-Ayala Tech
innovation Park
Product Housing/Community Healthcare/Leisure Real Estate
development
Service Community Medical travel Business incubation
engagement
Process Volunteerism Clustering of Collaboration
helathcare facilities among government,
in MM schools, and new
ventures
Paradigm Community Integration of health, Academically based
involvement travel and leisure IT park
Institution Government, NGOs, Industries , Government.
schools Government Industries, schools

17. Innovation Analysis
Aspects of Gawad Kalinga Medical Tourism UP-Ayala
Innovation Technopark
Novelty Volunteerism Integration of medical Business engagement of
treatments and leisure state university
Impact Improved lives and Job creation New venture
community of informal development and job
city dwellers creation
Equity Sharing of resources Equity sharing to provide State university access to
among communities poor access to healthcare income generation
potential
Economic and Donation based Private funding and P6.5 billion investment
Financial Stability management and expected earnings of
P200m
Environmental Focus on urban Issue of land use and Environment friendly
Sustainability environmental concerns environmental degradation design of IT Park
Transferability Replicated in other major Clustering in other major Model for other state
cities cities (Davao, Cebu) universities
Political acceptability Strong support from local Collaboration of health care Strong industry, academe,
government and tourism government
collaboration

18. Metro Manila City Innovations Dynamics
Gawad Kalinga
UP-Ayala
Technopark
city development
INNOVATIONS and growth population
Medical Tourism
knowledge infrastructure
social issues
policies urban migration
employment
resources transportation
environment
employment

19. Where do we go from here?
• Technology and innovation
– Education
– R&D
– Culture and social values
• Success indicators
• Innovations for progress
– Macro (landscape)
– Meso (regime)
– Micro (micro)

20. Thank you!