Indians do not innovate—what does it mean?
It’s hard to believe that Indians do not innovate. Despite having demonstrated creativity, Indians failed to scale up domestic innovations as global success stories due to a lack of relentless…
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Developing Scientific Capability—Market Driven Bottom-Up Approach
Upon exploiting natural resources and labor, aspiring developing countries have been focusing on developing scientific capability–for fueling economic growth. However progress in R&D budget allocation, graduates, publications and patents are…
Appropriate Technology is Inappropriate for Uplifting Developing Countries
Our economic prosperity and quality of living standards have been progressing due to the increasing utilization of ideas. These ideas have been making better usages of labor and natural resources.…
Startup Success from Scale—what it takes
Startups are after innovation. The economy of scale effect is at the core of profiting from innovation. Thus, startup success from the scale effect demands the development of intellectual assets,…
Lateral Entry in Innovation Race
The purpose of innovation is to ferret out value from the market out of technology ideas. Therefore, we foster innovation as an exercise of generating breakthrough ideas for releasing great…
Design Thinking for Managing Ideas Systematically
The challenge for ferreting out value from the market out of ideas is to systematically generate and keep releasing them. However, how to bring that much-needed discipline is an issue.…
Innovations Succeed at the Intersection of Seven Factors
How innovations succeed is increasingly drawing attention. On the one hand, due to innovations, there has been a growing gap in income and living standards between countries. On the other…
Bursts of Thrust Sustain Innovations to Penetrate Deeper into the Market
Innovations are in the mission of helping a growing body of people to serve their purposes increasingly better. Hence, we need bursts of thrust to sustain innovation to keep penetrating…
Sustaining Innovation Waves of iPhone
For showing magical performance, innovations behave like a seasonal crop. Irrespective of the greatness of the idea and initial performance, both its sales volume and willingness to pay keep drifting…
Commercialization of Knowledge and Ideas—Glassmaking Story of Corning
Commercialization of knowledge and ideas has been a great challenge for finding sustained growth paths for firms and countries. Hence, some firms and also countries are spending billions in generating…
Assistive to Creative Destruction—Innovation Pattern
Generating technology ideas for systematically ferreting out value from the market has been a big challenge. Often, we find success as the magical outcome of the heroic act of a…
Timing of Ideas for Systematic Ferreting
Ideas are like ferrets to extract value from the market for innovators and startups. However, the quality of ideas alone does not determine their capability. There are at least seven…