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China, Wealth Creation, and the Limits of Markets and Democracy in the Age of Fourth Industrial Revolution

Abstract: China’s transformation from a low-cost manufacturing base to a global leader in electric vehicles, batteries, renewable energy, and high-speed rail challenges long-held assumptions about the supremacy of market economies…

India’s GDP rank masks strategic weakness: India is losing the global race where it matters most—idea-based value creation through innovation evolution.

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Beyond India’s GDP Ranking: Prosperity gap between India and China keeps expanding

Abstract India’s ascent to the world’s fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP marks an important milestone, yet it obscures a deeper structural challenge. Despite comparable starting points in 1980, India’s per…

Why Economists Can’t Make America Great—and Engineers Once Did

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Engineers Made America Great—and Economists Are Struggling to Keep It That Way

Abstract “Make America Great Again” is often framed as political populism, but it reflects a deeper intellectual divide about how nations create Wealth. This article contrasts two routes to national…

6. Making America Great Again Requires Industrial Reinvention, Not Expansion

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MAGA at a Crossroads: Tariffs, Territory, and the Failure of Industrial Revival

Abstract This article examines the trajectory of Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) agenda through the lens of product life-cycle and industrial Reinvention theories. Using Trump’s renewed focus on…

Due to industrial reinvention failure Canada looks for gaining trade efficiency in Canola-for-EVs deal with China

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Canola-for-EVs Deal Underscores Industrial Reinvention

Abstract Canada’s recent trade engagement with China—expanding agricultural exports such as canola while easing tariff barriers on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs)—is often framed as a commercial success. This article argues…

Intel capital's failure of sustaining Intel's success leaves us with unsolved puzzle of how to prevent the fall of innovation leaders.

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Intel Capital Failure—Unfound Missing Piece to Build to Last

In a strategic bid to cut costs and simplify operations, Intel decided to spin off Intel Capital. This decision, despite its practicality, raises questions about the efficacy of Intel Capital’s…

Japan semiconductor manufacturing revival requires far more than US blessing, collaboration and subsidies-- demanding reinvention waves to lead.

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Japan Semiconductor Industry–demands next innovation waves

America’s Chip War winning strategy finds strengthening Japan semiconductor manufacturing a key component. Despite maintaining supremacy over 30 years, Japan’s market share has fallen from fifty percent in the 1980s…

Subsidies and trade restrictions are not good enough for winning chip war, as it demands passion of winning through advancement

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Chip War Winning Strategy of USA Risks Failure

Huawei’s Mate 60 phone containing Kirin 9000s chip — 7 nanometers (nm) chip made in China by the SMIC—questions the future of the USA’s Chip war winning strategy. Retaining semiconductor…

Due to innovation failure, neither SCL nor chip design service delivery to MNCs has seeded ideas capability in building semiconductor industry in India.

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Semiconductor Industry in India–innovation failure

With a $10 billion pot of money for giving subsidies, India has been struggling to allure global icons like Intel or TSMC to set up semiconductor plants in India. On…

In the absence of economic capacities, STEM education runs the risk of being wasteful

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STEM Education–what is the purpose?

STEM education is a key development agenda. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the UK-led Europe became highly prosperous due to Wealth creation success out of the advancement of science,…

Network externality effect is a blessing and curse for the innovation diffusion--demanding smart strategy to leverage it.

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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…

Automobile reinvention is China's strategic move to graduate from idea importer to exporter

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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…

Strategy & Policy in retrospect

China, Wealth Creation, and the Limits of Markets and Democracy in the Age of Fourth Industrial Revolution

Beyond India’s GDP Ranking: Prosperity gap between India and China keeps expanding

Engineers Made America Great—and Economists Are Struggling to Keep It That Way

MAGA at a Crossroads: Tariffs, Territory, and the Failure of Industrial Revival

Canola-for-EVs Deal Underscores Industrial Reinvention

Intel Capital Failure—Unfound Missing Piece to Build to Last

Japan Semiconductor Industry–demands next innovation waves

Chip War Winning Strategy of USA Risks Failure

Semiconductor Industry in India–innovation failure

STEM Education–what is the purpose?

Network Externality – affecting innovation diffusion race

Automobile Reinvention—China’s adventure to graduate from idea importer to exporter

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