Rokon Zaman, Author at THE WAVES

Startups are defined as early-stage companies pursuing the reinvention of existing products by changing technology cores as creative waves of destruction for unleashing disruptive innovation effects on matured products and firms.

Defining startups–what are they and how do we filter them?

Mushrooming Startups, lucrative capital gain examples, high failure rates, and increasing risk capital investments have underscored the necessity of defining startups. What are startups? Are all those companies in the…

Investing in startups demands investigating technology, hype and chasm risk for finding prospects which will likely cross the threshold and win the reinvention race--for unleashing disruptive innovation effect out of creative wave of destruction

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Investing in Startups–reward is fraught with pervasive technology, hype, and chasm risks

Reward of investing in Startups is tempting indeed. According to NBC, if you had invested $1,000 in Nvidia 25 years ago, the day Nvidia went public, your investment would have…

Machine age keeps unfolding, creating wealth, transforming jobs and migrating prosperity

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Machine Age Keeps Unfolding–transforming jobs, firms, and economies

The machine age has been unfolding. We are in the artificially intelligent machine (AI) age. The birth and evolution of machines have been at the root of generating increasing Wealth…

Startup ideas are often discarded by others and they demand amenable technology core for a flow of ideas and decision-making errors of incumbents

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Startup ideas–how to find and scale to success?

Startup ideas refer to reinventing matured products to unleash Creative Destruction or invent new products. However, which startup ideas should be pursued to create mega success? Are not great ideas,…

For meeting the purpose of STEM in creating wealth by offering better alternatives in getting jobs done, STEM competence must overcome multiple layers of barriers

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Purpose of STEM–creating wealth for driving prosperity

STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. There has been a growing emphasis, participation, and investment in STEM education and research. Such a reality has raised a critical question…

High-tech marketing is the nerve centre in detecting, envisioning and coordinating the process of creating a new market and position in it by leveraging rapidly advancing technology possibilities.

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High-tech Marketing–what is it and where is uniqueness?

High-tech marketing refers to creating a market of high-tech innovations and profitable position in it. Unlike conventional products, irrespective of their greatness, invariably, all high-tech innovations begin the journey with…

As high-tech market significantly differs from Rogers' hybrid seed diffusion market, the article proposes a new model for high-tech market segmentation

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High-tech Market–how to segment it?

High-techs or high technologies begin the journey in a primitive form, with latent growth potential. Hence, finding a growing market for High-tech products is quite unclear and often misleading. The…

Due to competition and urgency of profit making , NASA's TRLs are not suitable for assessing technology readiness for reinvention.

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Technology Readiness for Reinvention–NASA’s TRLs good enough?

All significant products like computers, televisions, and automobiles have been evolving through Reinvention. For example, the computer has already been reinvented several times. Similarly, the telephone and television have been…

Romer growth model suffers from a vital limitation as it does not focus on the dynamics of wealth creation out of ideas and rational decision making

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Romer Growth Model–questioning its efficacy

Paul Romer’s idea and object concept is highly prominent among the endogenous growth theories. By referring to the role of recipes in mixing ingredients, he emphasized the importance of ideas…

Due to disregard of dynamic cost-benefit ratio caused by evolution of underlying technology core, Rogers Innovation Diffusion Model faces question about its efficacy in high-tech innovation diffusion.

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Innovation Diffusion Model–time for upgrading Rogers model?

Ideas in Getting jobs done better or technological innovations are at the root of increasing Wealth production from the same amount of natural resources and labor supply. However, although the…

Idea supply and diffusion for creating wealth demands consideration of multidimensional issues

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Idea–Genesis, evolution, diffusion and wealth creation

Idea is about opinion or expression in organizing inputs to get jobs done. Due to ideas, population and per capita gross domestic product (GDP) have been growing rapidly and simultaneously…

High-tech Innovation Marketing Suffer from Diffusion Myths as the Reality Significantly Varies

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High-Tech Innovation Marketing Suffers from Diffusion Myth

Innovators are the worst sufferers due to Innovation diffusion failures. Irrespective of the greatness of ideas, the success of innovations depends on their diffusion. Innovation diffusion refers to how ideas,…

Rokon Zaman

Defining startups–what are they and how do we filter them?

Investing in Startups–reward is fraught with pervasive technology, hype, and chasm risks

Machine Age Keeps Unfolding–transforming jobs, firms, and economies

Startup ideas–how to find and scale to success?

Purpose of STEM–creating wealth for driving prosperity

High-tech Marketing–what is it and where is uniqueness?

High-tech Market–how to segment it?

Technology Readiness for Reinvention–NASA’s TRLs good enough?

Romer Growth Model–questioning its efficacy

Innovation Diffusion Model–time for upgrading Rogers model?

Idea–Genesis, evolution, diffusion and wealth creation

High-Tech Innovation Marketing Suffers from Diffusion Myth

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