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…
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Rokon Zaman
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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…
Startup Success–Reoccurring Patterns from Examples
Startups beacon us in creating fortune out of ideas. But more than 90 percent of startups, upon getting funding, fail to reach profit and fold up within five years. The…
Microprocessor Evolution Fueling Disruptive Innovations
We all realize the power of Disruptive innovation as it tumbles influential firms and fuels the rise of embryonic Startups into mega-corporations. For example, the personal computer has caused disruption…
National Innovation System–stop wasteful investment
There are a few standard things from Silicon Valley to Gothenburg, among the top 100 Innovation clusters. These are (i) a well-developed education system, (ii) research universities, (iii) venture capital…
How to Innovate–decoding greatness
Everybody would like to be a great innovator. But how to innovate is a mystery. What is your unique way to show greatness? Ron Friedman came up with Decoding Greatness…
iPhone Innovation from Refinement and Integration
For placing the internet in the palm of our hand and unleashing a revolution in mobile software, iPhone Innovation emerged. Its multi-touch user interface, first useful mobile web browser, integrated…
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…
Software Engineering Management for Economics of Value
Is not the software technology and engineering capability good enough in creating high-growth software firms? Although most software companies are small and struggling with financial hardship, there are a few…
ASML Lithography Monopoly from Sustaining Innovation
In finding the answer to why great companies fail, Professor Clayton Christensen formulated Disruptive innovation theory. Two business school professors came up with a blue ocean strategy in pursuit of…
ASML TSMC Nexus Fuels Semiconductor Monopoly
In lithography, ASML is a monopoly. As a lead user of ASML’s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, TSMC has become a monopoly in high-end (5nm as of 2021) silicon processing.…
Big Ideas are Getting Harder to Find- how to overcome?
In an MIT Sloan Management Review article, upon referring to research productivity trend analysis, researchers of Sandford University lamented the rarity of finding big ideas. They concluded that “great ideas…