High-profit Ideas of Lens Making – a lesson for startups
We all are after business ideas with low investment and high profit. Where are those high-profit ideas? Here is a shining story from Taiwan—Largan. In iPhone’s value chain, which company…
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Md. Rokonuzzaman
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AI Policy Response – demands long-term perspectives
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not magic. It is not a new technology either. Underlying component technologies are available and also affordable. In isolation, they have little capabilities. But once they…
Robots Taking Over Jobs – blessing for China?
There is no denying that robots are taking over jobs. For sure, 2.7 million robots, as of 2020, working factories around the world have taken over at least six times…
LED light bulb invention – Nichia rises due to GE’s decision failure
Why does the LED light bulb invention make Nichia a success and GE failure? For almost 100 years, Edison’s company General Electric (GE) was the global leader in the ever-growing…
Economic Growth Theories –Inadequacy for Innovation
We all are after economic growth for getting rid of scarcity. But, limited natural resources cannot offer endless growth. Hence, we have been after Innovation for exploiting ideas to derive…
Startups from Creative Outburst to Mad Race of Valuation
With the given mad race, the meaning of startup deserves clarification. They are small firms. But how do they differ from other small outfits, such as neighborhood coffee shops? Startups…
Technology Forecasting Failures by Giants Gave Birth to Giants
Technology is a dynamic phenomenon. Competition fuels scientific progress for improving technologies. With the growth of technology performances in key areas like complexity, efficiency, capacity, size, accuracy, usability, and compactness,…
High-tech parks – formation, growth, and replicability
The value addition in High-tech at Silicon Valley of the USA, Hsinchu of Taiwan, or Kulim of Malaysia is not the same. Chips designed by Silicon Valley firms like Apple…
High-tech – leveraging creative waves of destruction
We are bombarded with endless news about the possibilities of High-tech. Starting from venture capital fund managers, development practitioners to entrepreneurs, everybody seems to be after the high tech. Fund…
Technology patenting and protection – running out of steam
Despite R&D costs and legal expenses, it’s pretty surprising that 97% of all patents never made any money. Is technology patenting good enough to create economic value out of ideas…
Technology forecasting for predicting unfolding future
Not long ago, in 1992, Intel CEO Andy Grove shared a remark about the future of the smartphone, “The idea of a personal communicator in every pocket is a pipe…
Crossing technology chasm – jumping to higher altitude
In the technology adoption lifecycle, the gap between successive market segments is a chasm. As opposed to flat land, technology diffusion landscape is like a mountain. Invariably, inventions take place…