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A record of books, book chapters, reports and articles published by the named practitioners behind Praxora Lab, each sourced and cited rather than summarised away. These are their own works, published under their own names and mostly predating the practice. Research published by Praxora Lab as an institution is listed separately, and that section appears here once there is something in it.
Featured author
Dr. Jayarethanam Pillai
AI economist and founder of Praxora Lab, advising the UN Development Programme on AI and policy foresight and teaching as a professor of practice at Golden Gate University. Two decades spanning academic leadership, including deanships at business schools in Central Asia and the first successful AACSB accreditation in the region, alongside economic policy analysis and technology impact assessment across Asia, Central Asia and the United States.
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Leveraging LSTM for Precision Inventory Management by Future Demand Forecasting
A deep-learning approach combining LSTM networks with customer purchase-pattern mining to forecast future demand and manage inventory, achieving 98 percent accuracy in the reported tests.
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Transitional Entrepreneurship: Establishing Parameters of the Field
A peer-reviewed paper setting out the defining parameters of transitional entrepreneurship as a field of study, co-authored with Garry D. Bruton and Norris Sheng.
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Storytelling, the Scale of Persuasion and Retention: A Neuromarketing Approach
A neuromarketing study of how storytelling affects persuasion and retention, published in the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services.
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Nation Brand Image and Economic Development: Is There a Connection?
A study testing whether a nation's brand image is connected to its economic development outcomes, co-authored with Taoufik Zeriouh, Nicolas Hamelin, Talha D. Harcar and John Lodewijks.
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Kyrgyz Republic: Improving Growth Potential
Chapter: “Leveraging Service Sector Growth in the Kyrgyz Republic”
A chapter on service-sector growth in the Kyrgyz Republic, co-authored with Kiyoshi Taniguchi, in the Asian Development Bank's report on the country's growth potential.
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Research and Development Transformation in Central Asia: University-led Research Consortiums
A study of university-industry research collaboration models across Central Asia, co-authored with Aureliu Sindila and Anna Nagornova during his deanship at the American University of Central Asia.
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The Relationship Between Oil Prices and US Economy Revisited
A wavelet-based quantile regression study of how crude oil prices and US economic growth are linked across time horizons, co-authored with Debojyoti Das, Vaneet Bhatia and Aviral Kumar Tiwari.
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Innovation Networks and the New Asian Regionalism: A Knowledge Platform on Economic Productivity
A review of Hans-Peter Brunner's book on innovation networks and economic productivity across Asia, published in the Journal of Southeast Asian Economies.
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Frontier and Developing Asia: The Next Generation of Emerging Markets
A review of Alfred Schipke's edited volume on frontier and developing Asian markets, published in the Journal of Southeast Asian Economies.
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The Flexible Developmental State? The Case of the Singapore Electronics Industry
His PhD thesis, proposing a 'Flexible Developmental State' model and testing it against Singapore's electronics industry and its record of state-led industrial upgrading.
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Importance of Clusters in Industry Development: A Case of Singapore's Petrochemical Industry
A study of how Singapore's government mobilised cluster participants to build a globally competitive petrochemical industry, drawn from his early research on industry cluster policy.
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Historical Assessment of the Port of Singapore Authority and Its Progression Towards a 'High-Tech Port'
A working paper tracking the Port of Singapore Authority's development from 1970 to 2000 and its progress toward a competitive, technology-led 'high-tech port.'
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Service Exports from a Small City-State: The Case of Port of Singapore Authority
A working paper examining how the Port of Singapore Authority built a service-export capability from a small city-state's port operations.
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Technological Transfer Through Service Exports: The Case of Singapore's Port and Health Care Services
His M.Phil thesis, examining how Singapore's port and health care services drove technology transfer through service exports.
Featured author
Dr. Joshua Lau
Managing Director leading AI transformation at a Malaysian manufacturer, and a WSQ and HRDC accredited trainer who has delivered generative AI and agentic AI training to more than 1,000 learners across Singapore and Malaysia.
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Advances Using AI: The Next Wave
Chapter: “The Intelligent Journey”
An edited academic collection surveying applied AI across industries, with a chapter by Joshua Lau, credited as Joshua Lau Boon Wei, titled "The Intelligent Journey."
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Productivity Insights Vol. 1-1.2: 12 Steps to SME Recovery in the Asia-Pacific
A practitioner-facing report on a twelve-step framework for SME recovery across the Asia-Pacific, published by the Asian Productivity Organization with a contribution from Joshua Lau on page 27.
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Productivity Insights Vol. 1-1: 10 Opportunities for SME Recovery
The companion volume to APO's 12 Steps report, setting out ten SME recovery opportunities, published with a contribution from Joshua Lau.
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Digital Transformation in the Service Economy
An article on digital transformation across service-sector industries, written by Joshua Lau for DataQuest in 2021.
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Emerging Trends Report, First Edition
The first edition of APO's Emerging Trends Report, published in Japan, with a contribution from Joshua Lau on page 13.
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The Future Is Now: Q2 2019 Quarterly Emerging Trends Report
APO's Q2 2019 quarterly emerging-trends bulletin, with a contribution from Joshua Lau on page 25.
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The Future Is Now: Q1 2019 Quarterly Emerging Trends Report
APO's Q1 2019 quarterly emerging-trends bulletin, with a contribution from Joshua Lau on page 25.
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The Future Is Now: Q4 2018 Quarterly Emerging Trends Report
APO's Q4 2018 quarterly emerging-trends bulletin, with a contribution from Joshua Lau on page 22.
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The Future Is Now: Q3 2018 Quarterly Emerging Trends Report
APO's Q3 2018 quarterly emerging-trends bulletin, with a contribution from Joshua Lau on page 14.
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The Future Is Now: Q2 2018 Quarterly Emerging Trends Report
APO's Q2 2018 quarterly emerging-trends bulletin, with a contribution from Joshua Lau on page 26.
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The Future Is Now: Q1 2018 Quarterly Emerging Trends Report
APO's Q1 2018 quarterly emerging-trends bulletin, with a contribution from Joshua Lau on page 22.
Featured author
Jason Lee
Head of Compliance and MLRO with fifteen-plus years across banking, payments, fintech and digital assets, integrating AI and machine learning anomaly detection into AML, sanctions and transaction monitoring frameworks for regulated financial institutions.
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Featured author
Michael Low
AI transformation strategist, human capability architect and educator with over twenty years across government, higher education and industry, and creator of the S.E.N.S.E. framework for responsible, human-centred AI adoption. Former Deputy Director at SMU Academy and the Singapore Institute of Technology, now founder of SENSE Collective, advising organisations and institutions on moving beyond AI experimentation to purposeful, measurable adoption.
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Making S.E.N.S.E.: The End of Human Intelligence Dominance As We Know It
A follow-up to Making S.E.N.S.E. of AI for SMEs, examining what uniquely human capabilities still matter once machine intelligence has surpassed human performance in domains once thought to define it.
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Making S.E.N.S.E. of AI for SMEs: A Practical Playbook for Growth and Competitiveness
A practitioner's playbook breaking AI adoption for small and medium businesses into five steps, Spot, Empathise, Narrow, Solution, Evaluate, drawn from field research, transformation projects and executive workshops.
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Forging Strategic Alliances: Advancing FinTech Innovation and Narrowing the AI Talent Gap through Industry-Academia Collaboration
A white paper on closing the AI talent gap in FinTech through industry-academia collaboration, from a closed-door roundtable Michael Low co-moderated at the Japan FinTech Festival.
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Africa's Digital Renaissance: Unlocking Talent and Digital Skills for the Future of Finance
A white paper on equipping Africa's youthful population with digital skills for the future of finance, from a roundtable at the 3i Africa Summit that Michael Low moderated and co-authored for SMU Academy.
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Scaling Sustainable Innovation: From Research to Commercial Growth
A white paper on moving academic research into commercial-ready sustainable technology, from a roundtable at the Insights Forum 2024 that Michael Low co-moderated.
Featured author
Dr. Xenia Wade
Change management consultant with a Ph.D. in Business Administration and over a decade of experience in digital transformation and workforce enablement, currently focused on AI adoption across APAC and European markets.
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Determinants of Role-Incongruent Knowledge Transfer Behavior of Apprentices and Trainers in the Context of the German Apprenticeship System
A peer-reviewed study of what drives apprentices and trainers in the German apprenticeship system to transfer knowledge in ways that cut against their formal roles, published under her maiden name, Schmidt.
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What's So Special About Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer? Identifying Challenges of Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer
A study identifying the challenges distinct to knowledge transfer across generations in the workplace, published under her maiden name, Schmidt, during her Ph.D. research at the University of Trier.
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Die Zukunft des Personalmanagements: Herausforderungen, Lösungsansätze und Gestaltungsoptionen
Chapter: “Motivationsfaktoren zur Teilnahme am intergenerationellen Wissenstransfer im Rahmen von Mentoringprogrammen”
A chapter on the motivational drivers behind participation in intergenerational knowledge transfer within mentoring programmes, published under her maiden name, Schmidt, in an edited volume on the future of HR management.
Featured author
Patrick Ng
Founder of Spark Launchpad and certified venture-creation instructor and mentor across NUS, NTU, SUSS and SMU programmes, drawing on twenty-five years as a corporate innovation leader, technopreneur and inventor with twelve patent families.
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APAC Regionalisation with a "Legal-first" Approach
A founder's guide to protecting intellectual property before expanding across Asia-Pacific, built on proof of ownership, enforceable litigation rights and a Singapore hub-and-spoke structure.
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Can Trust Be Explained Simply? The Equation That Changed How I Pitch
How the trust equation from The Trusted Advisor changed the way Patrick Ng pitches, and why self-orientation is the variable that decides whether an audience believes you.
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The IP Paradox: Why Exclusivity is the Secret Weapon for Scaling Social Impact
An argument that intellectual property protects social enterprises rather than working against them, first presented at KPMG's Gen2050 session on IP for sustainability solutions.
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From Liability to Uptime: The Business Case for AI in Cybersecurity
A business case for AI-driven cyber defence written for executives rather than security teams, mapping AI's value to uptime, compliance and data trust.
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Discover Unarticulated Needs With This Tool
How a jobs-to-be-done analysis and a four-quadrant marketplace map help founders find customer needs that customers have not yet put into words.
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The Foundation of Innovation
Patrick Ng's account of moving from inventor to technology commercialisation, and why he concluded that ventures succeed on a deep understanding of the customer's problem rather than on the invention.
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In Innovation, Go Slow to Go Long
A marathon runner's case for treating innovation as a systematic, repeatable process built on preparation, user empathy and hypothesis testing rather than inspiration.
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Digital Transformation Transform People, Processes and Systems
Why digital transformation projects that stop at technology adoption rarely improve the business, and a five-step sequence that starts from the intended outcome.
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Brainstorming Approach: Uncover Great Ideas from Diverse Individuals, Inclusively and Respectfully
How a structured brainstorming session brought a divided startup-challenge team back to a single direction, and the facilitation choices that made it work.
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Venture Storytelling
How to build a startup pitch as a story using the design thinking cycle, from vision and purpose through the problem, the solution and the plan to scale, first delivered at the UOB FinLab GreenTech Accelerator 2022.
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Spark Canvas: Problems Worth Solving
Patrick Ng introduces the Spark Canvas, a customer-problem discovery tool he built after finding the Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas left too many startup teams with poor customer-problem fit.
