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Asia dominates microchip making due to winning the global race of increasing microchip density and taking the scale advantage

Asia Dominates Microchip Making–NOT due to subsidies and low-cost labor

Is the argument that Asia dominates microchip-making due to subsidy and low-cost labor wrong? Yes, Asia did not invent it. Despite this, why Asia dominates microchip making is intriguing indeed.…

Due to innovation failure, neither SCL nor chip design service delivery to MNCs has seeded ideas capability in building semiconductor industry in India.

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Semiconductor Industry in India–innovation failure

With a $10 billion pot of money for giving subsidies, India has been struggling to allure global icons like Intel or TSMC to set up semiconductor plants in India. On…

Soviet computer failed due to confining computers within military purposes, discouraging computers for productive activities due to labor saving role and preventing profit making incentives from advancing computers

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Soviet Computer Failure—reasons and lessons?

In the age of the Chip War, we have forgotten the edge of Soviet computers. The rise and fall of the Soviet computer edge offer a valuable lesson for managing…

In the absence of economic capacities, STEM education runs the risk of being wasteful

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STEM Education–what is the purpose?

STEM education is a key development agenda. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the UK-led Europe became highly prosperous due to Wealth creation success out of the advancement of science,…

Due to reinvention waves, innovation epicentres keep migrating, causing rise and fall of firms and their nations

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Changing World Order Due to Reinvention Dynamics

Industrial output is one of the driving factors of the changing world order. Along with the global share of manufacturing output change, the international order has changed over more than…

Apple's innovation out of reinvention and refinement have made Apple a disruptive force

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Apple’s Innovation – disruption from reinvention and details

Innovation forks out more than 40 percent gross profit from close to $400 billion revenue in 2022. That is a great pinnacle of Apple’s success from innovation. Apple is known…

Network externality effect is a blessing and curse for the innovation diffusion--demanding smart strategy to leverage it.

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Network Externality – affecting innovation diffusion race

The network Externality Effect has been at the core of the success of Facebook, Google search engine, and many others. On the other hand, it has been a seemingly insurmountable…

Car evolution out of incremental innovation has been diffusing this innovation deeper in society, creating successes and failures

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Car Evolution – competititive race in incremental innovation

Innovation is a synonym to Eureka with a big spark in a light bulb. But the car evolution offers us a different lesson. Unlike a big bang, Carl Benz’s automobile…

Technology forecasting failures miss the opportunity and cause suffering from disruptive innovation

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Asia Dominates Microchip Making–NOT due to subsidies and low-cost labor

Semiconductor Industry in India–innovation failure

Soviet Computer Failure—reasons and lessons?

STEM Education–what is the purpose?

Changing World Order Due to Reinvention Dynamics

Apple’s Innovation – disruption from reinvention and details

Network Externality – affecting innovation diffusion race

Car Evolution – competititive race in incremental innovation

Technology Forecasting Failures by Giants Gave Birth to Giants

Design Thinking Skills – for winning innovation race

Invention of Computer—a journey of automation and creative destruction

Steve Jobs’ Innovation Secret: Reinvention from Refinement of Borrowed Ideas

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