Vulnerability of America’s Technology Superiority
The vulnerability of America’s technology superiority has already raised concern. But, is it due to just China’s IP infringement? Or, is there a systematic pattern of erosion of America’s edge?…
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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…
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 has 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 of unfolding the Fourth…
Reducing Uncertainty in Innovation by Focusing on Discipline
Although Innovation holds the key in opening an 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…
Japan’s Quality from Borrowed Ideas—Deming and Lean Six Sigma Good Enough?
The impression that Japan’s quality from borrowed ideas out of the practice of quality lesson of Dr. Deming and Lean Six Sigma appears to be misleading. The reality is far…
Lateral Entry in Innovation Race
The purpose of Innovation is to ferret out value from the market out of technology ideas. Therefore, we foster innovation as an exercise of generating Breakthrough ideas for releasing great…
Innovators Succeed from Ideas of Others
Profiting from ideas has been a great challenge. On the one hand, great ideas start the journey at loss. On the other hand, Apple and many others are showing magical…
Design Thinking for Managing Ideas Systematically
The challenge for ferreting out value from the market out of ideas is to systematically generate and keep releasing them. However, how to bring that much-needed discipline is an issue.…
Bursts of Thrust Sustain Innovations to Penetrate Deeper into the Market
Innovations are in the mission of helping a growing body of people to serve their purposes increasingly better. Hence, we need bursts of thrust to sustain Innovation to keep penetrating…