FREE is so prevalent today, in fact one of the companies I started was based on FREE  (Free Love Philippines : Free Photocopying) you can find out more in springwise and in the PDF we made for FREE on how to create your own FREE PHOTOCOPYING business or event (see our manifestos). Google Search is Free and so is Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Earth (hell everything that Google provides is usually free). Facebook, Multiply, Linkedin is also Free  there is no subscription fees or membership fees like golf clubs. The thing is that these companies earn tons and tons of money, Google = GOD already for some of us.

Here in this short PDF I try to explain how Free works, and why it is important. The Audiobook of Free is still Free the last time I checked but the ebook isn’t anymore, fortunately, the book is available in nearly all bookstores nationwide (even worldwide).

Again this is FREE to download and share.

Ateneo Innovation Center Book Review : Free by Chris Anderson

Dr. Greg Tangonan giving the opening remarks.

Last Saturday (August 1, 2009) the newly established Ateneo Innovation Center hosted its first Seminar/Talk on Innovation in Ateneo’s SEC Lecture Hall B.

French Exchange Student Maxime Fournier presents on ZipLux

4th year ECE (Electrical and Communications Engineering) students for their Management Engineering class under Dr. Greg Tangonan and Engineer Cesar Pineda presented Business Ideas inspired by Business Week’s IDEA Design Awards 2008.

A total of 12 products were presented : Mosquito Nets | Belkin Rockstart | Brazo | Eneloop Air Freshener | Net Guard | Silence Alarm Clock | Senz Umbrella | ZipLux  | Ultra-Relief | Flying Stick | Replug | Touch Sight. [See Presentations Here]

With over 80 in attendance including some people in industry and in academe the first ever Ateneo Innovation Center is truly a success.

Innovation in Design Seminar.

This seminar unlike other engineering seminars is business oriented, students were actually required to dedicate 1 slide to talk about the business application to the Philippine market by stealing the idea, improving the idea or thinking of other and creative uses.

The Ateneo Innovation Center will be hosting another talk by Inovent the makers of the ilumina iTV and the only Industrial Design Firm in the Philippines on August 28, 2009 at SOM 111 (Ching Tan) from 4:30 pm till 6:00pm.

The IsangConcepts team especially Matthew Cua is highly active in the Ateneo Innovation Center and is producing the new webhome of the Ateneo Innovation Center. If you want to learn more about the Ateneo Innovation Center simply visit the site : www.ateneoinnovation.org or email Matthew Cua. The Ateneo Innovation Center aims to be the center of academic innovation in the Philippines.

Talks and Seminars on Economist’s Technology Quarterly, Venture Capitalism, Technopreneurship and many more will be hosted by the Ateneo Innovation Center.

Stay tuned !

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