Network Externality – affecting innovation diffusion race
The network Externality Effect has been at the core of the success of Facebook, Google search engine, and many others. On the other hand, it has been a seemingly insurmountable…
History & Observations
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Car Evolution – competititive race in incremental innovation
Innovation is a synonym to Eureka with a big spark in a light bulb. But the car evolution offers us a different lesson. Unlike a big bang, Carl Benz’s automobile…
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,…
Design Thinking Skills – for winning innovation race
Besides the good acceptance of design thinking skills for human-centric Innovation, why is a record number of Startups failing? Why are innovators suffering from the burn of the failure of…
Invention of Computer—a journey of automation and creative destruction
The fascinating computer invention expedition is spread from Abacus to ENIAC. It started in ancient times, leading to the development of the digital computer ENIAC in 1945. Although we know,…
Steve Jobs’ Innovation Secret: Reinvention from Refinement of Borrowed Ideas
Steve Jobs magical innovation success has roots in reinvention of existing products out of refinement of borrowed ideas.
Automobile Reinvention—China’s adventure to graduate from idea importer to exporter
Made in China 2025 places the automobile Reinvention agenda at the top. China began the journey of building the automobile industry by adding value out of labor and locally available…
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?…
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…
Shedding Light on Industrial Economy—reoccurring patterns in light source evolution
Starting from building back better America to massive job loss threats in developing economies, the human race has been bewildered by daunting issues. At the core, it is the dynamics…
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…