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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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)…

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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

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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…

Technology policy in addressing diverse issues demands fresh thinking as it is at the core of prosperity by winning the global competition race and avoiding wasteful investment

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Technology Policy Issues Demand Fresh Thinking

Technology is about ideas for getting our jobs done better. Technologies emerge through invention and grow, having an S-curve-like lifecycle. Along the way, they fuel the Innovation of goods and…

For leveraging Triple Helix model, we need to direct collaboration between the Government, Industry and Universities along the pathway of the evolution of targeted products and processes.

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Triple Helix – addressing directional failure

Triple Helix refers to cooperation between the universities, industry, and Government for economic and social growth. Such collaboration between these three building blocks of a national Innovation system is evident…

Powering clean buses faces policy dilemma as there is no clear winner between battery and hydrogen fuel cells--resulting in slow progress in cleaning city air

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Powering Clean Buses – facing policy dilemma

Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) constitutes a significant cause of cardiopulmonary diseases, cancers, diabetes, and neurotoxicity. Although such evidence led to the adoption of increasingly stringent regulations, the economics of competing technology…

Technology uncertainty has been a root cause of high failure rates of startups and suffering of incumbent firms due to the uprising of creative waves out of emerging technology cores

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Technology Uncertainty – hidden traps and treasures

Upon developing the first digital camera in 1974, Kodak management envisioned no possibility of finding treasures. But, after seeing the 8×8 charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor of Bell Labs, Sony…

To bear fruit, AI demands consistent long-term policy response

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AI Policy Response – demands long-term perspectives

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not magic. It is not a new technology either. Underlying component technologies are available and also affordable. In isolation, they have little capabilities. But once they…

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

STEM Indicators in Perspective: Seed Corns for Driving Innovation

Science the endless frontier–driving prosperity and creating jobs

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

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

Chip War — why, how to win and sustain?

Science for Environment and Economic Prosperity

Technology Policy Issues Demand Fresh Thinking

Triple Helix – addressing directional failure

Powering Clean Buses – facing policy dilemma

Technology Uncertainty – hidden traps and treasures

AI Policy Response – demands long-term perspectives

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