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Time to unleash the young and creative on the global economy to spur growth
Andrew Sheng says as disruptive technology remakes the global economy, growth increasingly depends on innovation, and our youth are best placed to foster change
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Earlier this month, I was fortunate to attend the Khazanah Megatrends Forum in Kuala Lumpur on creative disruption. It brought together many amazing speakers at the cutting edge of innovation. The most impressive was Dr Hugh Herr, who lost both legs to frostbite when mountain climbing. His doctors told him that he should be resigned to limited mobility. After an initial period of despondence, he decided conventional medicine was broken, not his body or mind. So he invented robotic legs, and today, fitted with them, he has not only climbed more difficult rock faces than before, but also helped hundreds of other people with disabilities.
We must begin to build the platforms and new social institutions to allow youth to channel their energies towards creative outlets - not in rebellion of the present, but to shape the future
Innovation is all about changing the status quo - to do what most people thought impossible.
Asian economies today are facing both the threat of disruptive technology and the benefits of new growth and new profits.
Disruptive technology is a cutthroat business. In the smartphone business, for instance, two companies - Apple and Samsung - dominate, with almost everyone else bleeding losses or being reconfigured.
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