Rokon Zaman, Author at THE WAVES

Is China's Semiconductor Independence a premature move, making it an easy target to get destroyed?

China’s Semiconductor Independence–prematurely caught?

Upon triggering Chip War to attain semiconductor independence, China has been hoping to repeat the past success of A-bomb making. Despite the Soviet Union’s withdrawal of technical support from empowering…

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Innovation Decision–fraught with pervasive uncertainties

Contrary to common belief about what it takes to succeed with technologies, innovation decision highly matters. The rise and fall of firms largely depend on Innovation decisions for exploiting latent…

Sustaining innovation diffusion pattern due to incremental advancement and reinvention is quite different than Roger's theory

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Sustaining Innovation Diffusion — far more than sales dive

Not all products diffuse at the same level and the same rate. But they affect how firms, industries, Governments, and society function. For example, Apple’s magical success has been due…

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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…

For leveraging innovation ecosystem, we need winning strategy and synchronised response to the global innovation race

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Innovation Ecosystem–is it sufficient for innovation economy?

Dutch ASML became the 32nd most expensive company in Europe. Apple became a trillion-dollar company. But Nokia and Kodak suffered colossal damages to their businesses. And Taiwan has attained high-income…

Systematic exploitation of ideas for offering increasing value for money has been at the root of sustained growth

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Sustained Growth — how to attain?

From smartphones to automobiles, a few products have been enjoying sustained growth over the decades. Similarly, firms like Apple, Toyota, and a few others engaged in making them have also…

Focus on creating increasing value from natural resources, labor and knowledge, and creating idea economy for escaping middle income trap

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Middle Income Trap–how to escape?

Intelligent opening of idea economy in leveraging natural resources, labor and knowledge offers middle trap escaping option.

Idea Economy offers endless frontier of wealth creation, but it demands creating a flow of ideas and succeeding in global competition

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Idea Economy–making prosperity endless and transitory

Over the last 20 centuries, the population, per capita GDP, and average life expectancy have been growing simultaneously. How to explain such an apparent contradiction is a matter of concern.…

Upon reaching the pinnacle of success in the current wave, Japanese firms pursue self reinvention for sustaining the success

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Self Reinvention for Sustaining Success of Japanese Firms

We all know about the Kodak moment. To find the underlying reason, Prof. Clayton Christensen pursued his curiosity about why highly successful firms fail. His research endeavor led to the…

For taking two different routes for fuelling zero emission vehicles as creative wave of destruction, we have Tesla vs Toyota debate

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Tesla vs Toyota in EV Race — different routes?

As far as electric vehicle discourse is concerned, Tesla fans win. Furthermore, often, the winning statement in Tesla vs Toyota debate ends up with a kodak moment outcome; Likely, Toyota…

Intellectual Asset Management–matters to innovation

Intellectual Asset (IA) refers to identifiable and distinct knowledge, ideas, databases, instructions, and processes that contribute to economic value creation. Hence, intellectual asset management refers to their creation, possession and refinement,…

Grassroots Innovations — why and how to scale up

Innovation is about gathering, generating, adapting, and deploying ideas in performing jobs better—consequentially, creating economic value. Hence, innovation is not limited to formal R&D laboratories, the corporate world, magical products,…

Rokon Zaman

China’s Semiconductor Independence–prematurely caught?

Innovation Decision–fraught with pervasive uncertainties

Sustaining Innovation Diffusion — far more than sales dive

Chip War — why, how to win and sustain?

Innovation Ecosystem–is it sufficient for innovation economy?

Sustained Growth — how to attain?

Middle Income Trap–how to escape?

Idea Economy–making prosperity endless and transitory

Self Reinvention for Sustaining Success of Japanese Firms

Tesla vs Toyota in EV Race — different routes?

Intellectual Asset Management–matters to innovation

Grassroots Innovations — why and how to scale up

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