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As great inventions are fraught with uncertainties, how to transfer latent potential of invention into profitable business demands knowing wealth creation dynamics out of technology possibilities.

Great Inventions Alone Aren’t Enough for Financial Success: Lessons from Shockley, Edison, and the Entrepreneurial Journey

The narrative of groundbreaking inventors such as William Shockley and Thomas Edison reveals a paradox: inventing revolutionary products like the Transistor and gramophone and taking entrepreneurial steps by the inventors…

Reinvention wave grows causing destruction and migration

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Reinvention effect — causes destruction and migration

A Scottish engineer invented the Television, but British people import their TV sets. Similarly, inventions like the camera, LCD, battery, and many more have migrated from the USA to Japan.…

Evolution of microprocessor from its embryonic invention reaching to highly complex system on chip is driven by two major waves: PC and Smartphone

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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…

Episodic evolution of inventions takes place due to the race of incremental progression and reinvention

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Episodic Evolution of Inventions Leading to Migration

With the impending threats of losing inventions to China, there have been trading policy frictions between the USA and China. Despite intellectual property rights, inventors lose their grip on their…

Innovations keep emerging and growing out of an invention and its continued advancement

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Invention and Innovation-let’s demystify them

Is there an ambiguity in defining invention and Innovation? We look for names of the inventors of Automobile, Television, Camera, Computers and many others products we use. But, are television…

Product lifecycle evolves through incremental advancement, creative destruction and disruptive innovation

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Edison’s Light Bulb Invention and Destruction

On New Year’s Eve, 1879, at Edison’s Menlo Park, N.J., laboratory, Edison’s light bulb went for public demonstration. Among a record 1,093 patents, the light bulb is his most famous…

Curiosity fuelled the formation of science and engineering base, leading to electricity invention in powering an array of inventions

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Electricity Invention

Electricity invention is the most outstanding achievement of the human race. Through the unfolding of the second industrial revolution, it began unleashing its mighty power of inventions. Electricity has become…

Feeding of urgency and knowledge to the creative process leads to inventions, but are not equally scalable

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Invention

The invention is about ideas of organizing objects in a novel way in Getting jobs done better, preferably by consuming less labor, material, and energy. As we know, invention is…

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Airplane Invention — from an indomitable desire to fly

For succeeding with the Airplane invention, Wright Brothers significantly benefited from the scientific knowledge creation, design of gliders, and experimental data of others. It began with the invention of the…

As opposed to waiting for creative spark, we should systematically investigate nine areas for getting inventive ideas

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Inventive Ideas – nine ways to get them

For an inventive idea of an electric vehicle, Elon Musk has become the wealthiest person. He is not alone; there are many other examples. By the way, we are not…

Washing machine invention scaled up from a grassroots idea due to change of technology core and a flow of incremental ideas

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Washing Machine Invention—the rise of a grassroots idea for automating a rigorous chore into a large industry

Washing machine invention dates back to issuing the first English patent under the category of washing machines in 1691. In a publication in 1767, Jacob Christian Schäffer (German) explained the…

In Radio Invention, Marconi's experimentation from Signal Hill, Newfoundland, to send radio signal across the Atlantic

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Radio Invention–opening a new horizon of wealth creation in the information age

Whenever we talk about radio invention, the name of Guglielmo Marconi pops up. For sure, his experiment of sending and receiving radio signals in Italy, in 1895, proved the feasibility…

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Great Inventions Alone Aren’t Enough for Financial Success: Lessons from Shockley, Edison, and the Entrepreneurial Journey

Reinvention effect — causes destruction and migration

Microprocessor Evolution Fueling Disruptive Innovations

Episodic Evolution of Inventions Leading to Migration

Invention and Innovation-let’s demystify them

Edison’s Light Bulb Invention and Destruction

Electricity Invention

Invention

Airplane Invention — from an indomitable desire to fly

Inventive Ideas – nine ways to get them

Washing Machine Invention—the rise of a grassroots idea for automating a rigorous chore into a large industry

Radio Invention–opening a new horizon of wealth creation in the information age

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