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Intellectual Asset Management–matters to innovation

Intellectual Asset (IA) refers to identifiable and distinct knowledge, ideas, databases, instructions, and processes that contribute to economic value creation. Hence, intellectual asset management refers to their creation, possession and refinement,…

Vertical segmentation of semiconductor industry value chain reveals internal details layer after layer

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Semiconductor Value Chain – globally distributed ecosystem

Global chip shortage affecting production was one of the top news in 2021–culminating in the Chip War. It has affected 200 downstream sectors ranging from smartphones to automobiles. Why does…

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Economic Value Out of Ideas

Creating a flow of ideas out of IT possibilities and integrating them into products and processes opens the window of improving thew quality and reducing the cost simultaneously.

Sony--why is it a role model for startup, innovation, and idea economy?

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Startup, Innovation, and Idea Economy–is Sony a role model?

In 1946, Sony started the journey in the wreckage of a bombed building in Tokyo with 08 employees. but this humble beginning offers valuable lessons for startup, innovation, and idea…

Americans invent for others to innovate appears to be the case in LCD display, offering valuable lessons for profiting from invention and innovation race

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Americans Invent for Others to Innovate—a lesson from the LCD display

“America cannot even produce the things it invented” is the title of a recent New York Times opinion piece. The author, co-director of the innovation policy lab at the University…

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Idea Economy Fuels Prosperity, Volatility, and Inequality

The idea economy has been bringing prosperity to a few idea supplying countries. On the other hand, these ideas have been increasing inequality and also causing volatility to the value…

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Systematic Innovation in Competitive Market

For succeeding with innovation, we need ideas. Innovators easily generate a flow of ideas out of brainstorming and other techniques. However, experimenting with ideas is costly. Instead of building a…

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Intellectual Asset Management–matters to innovation

Semiconductor Value Chain – globally distributed ecosystem

Economic Value Out of Ideas

Startup, Innovation, and Idea Economy–is Sony a role model?

Americans Invent for Others to Innovate—a lesson from the LCD display

Idea Economy Fuels Prosperity, Volatility, and Inequality

Systematic Innovation in Competitive Market

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