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Chasm in High-Tech Innovation Diffusion: Beyond Marketing for Crossing the Chasm

The journey of High-tech Innovation diffusion is often marked by a critical gap, commonly referred to as the chasm, which separates early adopters from the mainstream market. This phenomenon highlights…

Technology Development

Leveraging of Technology Acquisition: Aligning Maturity of Technology Life Cycle with Business Relevance

Successful leveraging of technology acquisition practices relies on aligning the stages of the technology life cycle with business goals and opportunities. Companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, ASML, and Sony have…

Technology Development

Technology Acquisition Practices: Lessons from Leading Tech Companies

Technology acquisition is a critical strategy for companies looking to innovate and maintain competitive advantage. Major players in the tech industry, such as Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, ASML, and…

Technology acquisition for innovation success requires optimum blending between internal development, licensing, buying from vendor and acquiring of firms

Technology Development

Technology Acquisition for Innovation Success: A Comprehensive Approach from Audit to Integration

In the modern landscape of Innovation-driven economies, businesses strive to achieve competitive advantages through the strategic use of technology. However, acquiring and deploying the right technology capabilities requires meticulous planning…

Navigating technological change through integrating elements such as patents, R&D activities, industry trends, and innovation pathways is a critical driver of competitive advantage

Technology Development

Navigating Technological Change: Insights from Benchmarking and Industry Scanning

Navigating technological change for technology management is a critical driver of competitive advantage, Innovation, and sustainability in today’s rapidly evolving industries. Two powerful tools in this context are benchmarking and…

Innovation’s loss-making phase is marked by the reality that great ideas begin the journey in an inferior form and potential remains latent

Innovation’s Loss-Making Phase: Why Great Ideas Often Start in the Red

Innovation often begins as a loss-making endeavor despite the potential greatness of the idea behind it. This phenomenon stems from the fact that most new ideas emerge in an underdeveloped…

STEM indicators refer to country's degrees, graduates, R&D investment, publications, patents and relevant infrastructure pertaining to science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

STEM Indicators in Perspective: Seed Corns for Driving Innovation

STEM indicators assess a country’s advancement in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), providing insights into its capacity for Innovation, economic growth, and technological competitiveness. These indicators…

Leveraging science the endless frontier in driving prosperity and creating decent jobs demands winning the global race of innovation

Science the endless frontier–driving prosperity and creating jobs

Science the endless frontier refers to profiting from winning the global race of inventing technologies and innovating products for offering better means of Getting jobs done by leveraging the endless…

Success of Taiwan semiconductor industry has been due to commercialisation of learning and R&D outputs, leading to forming a virtuous cycle of growth

Taiwan Semiconductor Industry–rise of global monopoly from a virtuous cycle

The triggering of the chip war underscores the paramount importance of the rise of the Taiwan semiconductor industry as a global monopoly. Its crown jewel TSMC produces more than 90…

Semiconductor industry growth is underpinned by personalities, new waves, and specialisation--instead of state interventions like subsidies, restrictions and protections

Semiconductor Industry Growth–personalities, new waves, and specialisation underpin

Billions of dollars in subsidies and strict regulations are being rolled out to build and strengthen the semiconductor industry. But are they enough to competitively fabricate tiny building blocks (chips)…

Chip War — why, how to win and sustain?

While Taiwan TSMC reports record profit by producing more than 90% of most advanced chips, USA’s Intel reports a loss in making chips with two-generation older technology (as of the…

By leveraging scientific progression, race of winning has led to reinventing light bulb making it increasingly better, cheaper, and environment friendly

Science for Environment and Economic Prosperity

For producing 750 lumens, we used to turn on a 60W incandescent light bulb. Due to its Reinvention as LED, we need to spend just 10W to get the same…

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