Reinvention effect — causes destruction and migration
A Scottish engineer invented the Television, but British people import their TV sets. Similarly, inventions like the camera, LCD, battery, and many more have migrated from the USA to Japan.…
Inventions
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Microprocessor Evolution Fueling Disruptive Innovations
We all realize the power of disruptive innovation as it tumbles influential firms and fuels the rise of embryonic startups into mega-corporations. For example, the personal computer has caused disruption…
Episodic Evolution of Inventions Leading to Migration
With the impending threats of losing inventions to China, there have been trading policy frictions between the USA and China. Despite intellectual property rights, inventors lose their grip on their…
Invention and Innovation-let’s demystify them
Is there an ambiguity in defining invention and innovation? We look for names of the inventors of Automobile, Television, Camera, Computers and many others products we use. But, are television…
Edison’s Light Bulb Invention and Destruction
On New Year’s Eve, 1879, at Edison’s Menlo Park, N.J., laboratory, Edison’s light bulb went for public demonstration. Among a record 1,093 patents, the light bulb is his most famous…
Electricity Invention
Electricity invention is the most outstanding achievement of the human race. Through the unfolding of the second industrial revolution, it began unleashing its mighty power of inventions. Electricity has become…
Airplane Invention — from an indomitable desire to fly
For succeeding with the Airplane invention, Wright Brothers significantly benefited from the scientific knowledge creation, design of gliders, and experimental data of others. It began with the invention of the…
Inventive Ideas – nine ways to get them
For an inventive idea of an electric vehicle, Elon Musk has become the wealthiest person. He is not alone; there are many other examples. By the way, we are not…
Washing Machine Invention—the rise of a grassroots idea for automating a rigorous chore into a large industry
Washing machine invention dates back to issuing the first English patent under the category of washing machines in 1691. In a publication in 1767, Jacob Christian Schäffer (German) explained the…
Radio Invention–opening a new horizon of wealth creation in the information age
Whenever we talk about radio invention, the name of Guglielmo Marconi pops up. For sure, his experiment of sending and receiving radio signals in Italy, in 1895, proved the feasibility…
Camera Invention–Who invented the camera and when?
Long before George Eastman’s Kodak camera, rolled out in 1888, camera invention started with Camera Obscure. Between 965 AD–1040 AD, Ibn al-Haytham wrote about the working and design principles of this…