Winning and Losing in Reinvention Race
Reinvention has grown as a major issue in the competition, startup, industrial strategy, wealth creation, sustainable development, climate change, and trade policy. The loss of silicon valley’s edge to Taiwan…
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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.
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…
Purpose of Electrical and Computer Engineering Education
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is a major professional discipline. International Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) has more than 400,000 members from 160 countries. A growing number of…
Vulnerability of America’s Technology Superiority
The vulnerability of America’s technology superiority has already raised concern. Is it due to just China’s IP infringement? Or, is there a systematic pattern of erosion of America’s edge? The…
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…
Deciphering Robots, Automation, and Jobs: for smarter understanding, strategy, and policy
Deciphering Robots, Automation, and Jobs attempts to shed light on non-conclusive ongoing discourse: future of work or jobs. In fact, technology has multi-dimensional effects on jobs. The net effect on…
Endless Frontier of Growth—what does it take?
In July 1945, Prof. Vannevar Bush, introduced the phrase—Science, The Endless Frontier. In his landmark report to the President of the United States of America, he argued that there should…
Strategic Areas of Ideas for Reinnovation—the underpinning of the evolution of innovation
More or less, all major industrial products, whether hardware or software, have been evolving. Are random or free flow of ideas have been supporting this evolution. Or, are there strategic…
Strategies for Building High-tech Industry
High-tech has been a lucrative industry. Notably, it has been at the core of driving the third industrial revolution. Moreover, it will remain at the core in unfolding the fourth…
Reducing Uncertainty in Innovation by Focusing on Discipline
Although innovation holds the key in opening endless frontier of growth, high level uncertainty in systematically ferreting out value from the market is a challenge. Hence, we need to focus…
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…