Survival and Growth Amid Automation
For survival, automation is a blessing and also a curse. Automation has been a great help to cope up with wage increases and labor shortages. Job simplification out of automation…
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Rokon Zaman
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Cottage Industries Remain Small—does it always?
Cottage industry refers to a small-scale, decentralized manufacturing business or firm. Often, they are operated out of a home rather than a purpose-built facility. In the preindustrial age, the cottage…
Strategies for Building High-tech Industry
High-tech has been a lucrative industry. Notably, it has been at the core of driving the third industrial revolution. Moreover, it will remain at the core of unfolding the Fourth…
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 a…
Reducing Uncertainty in Innovation by Focusing on Discipline
Although Innovation holds the key in opening an endless frontier of growth, high-level uncertainty in systematically ferreting out value from the market is a challenge. Hence, we need to focus…
Failure of Russia in Innovation Economy—a lesson for state intervention
Russia’s state-sponsored R&D led to path-breaking scientific discovery and technology innovations. However, Russia failed to develop an Innovation Economy out of such advancements. On the other hand, Japan succeeded in…
Scalability of Ideas—at the core of innovation successes
Systematically ferreting out value from great ideas has been a challenge. Often, the outcome is magical though. However, the scalability of ideas is at the core of nurturing ideas into…
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…
Idea Economy Fuels Prosperity, Volatility, and Inequality
The idea economy has been bringing prosperity to a few idea supplying countries. On the other hand, these ideas have been increasing inequality and also causing volatility to the value…
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,…
Entering into Idea Economy—household appliances route
Creating economic value out of ideas offers an endless frontier for producing increasing Wealth from depleting resources. However, most of the developing countries are not into it. In order to…