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Imperfect Markets in High-Tech Industries: Monopoly by Design

The High-tech market is often seen as a driver of Innovation, quality improvement, and cost reduction through relentless competition. However, these very dynamics create a paradox: the high-tech industry inherently…

Paradox of innovation poses the challenge of leveraging innovation race for expanding the trade, while finding ways in dealing with accumulated market power without throttling innovation

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Paradox of Innovation: Expanding Trade While Fuelling Monopolistic Power

Expanding trade while fueling monopolistic power underpins the paradox of Innovation. Innovation is a cornerstone of the Market Economy, driving prosperity, improving living standards, and fueling economic growth. However, it…

Semiconductor lithography has been evolving due to profit making competition from science and technology possibilities in keeping Moore's law alive--leading to monopolisation

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Semiconductor Lithography Economics–fuelling Moore’s law and market power

The rise of the rudimentary microscope that an American firm GCA invented in 1961 to ASML’s $250 million complex machine is a surprise. Its uprising has fueled monopoly in the…

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Schumpeter Creative Destruction Demystified

Competition to profit from ideas for offering better substitutions is the underlying strength of producing more from less. On the backdrop of monopolization and uprising of super-rich out of offering…

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Import of Ideas Persists Poverty

Ideas are at the core of creating Wealth. Hence, there should be a natural correlation between the supply of ideas and the state of poverty. However, the Flow of Ideas…

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Incremental Innovation vs Disruptive Innovation

Every day we use numerous products. We observe that some products are continuously improving. On the other hand, we also observe that a different type of product is replacing some…

Competition & Monopoly

Imperfect Markets in High-Tech Industries: Monopoly by Design

Paradox of Innovation: Expanding Trade While Fuelling Monopolistic Power

Semiconductor Lithography Economics–fuelling Moore’s law and market power

Schumpeter Creative Destruction Demystified

Import of Ideas Persists Poverty

Incremental Innovation vs Disruptive Innovation

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