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Riding the S-Curve in Ever-Evolving Technology Landscape

Riding the S-Curve: Navigating the Growth and Saturation of the Technology Lifecycle

Like hard disks, digital image sensors, mobile phones, and airplanes, all technologies get born in an embryonic form. They grow through a Flow of Ideas, making them better and cheaper.…

Inferior to creative destruction demands sustained incremental advancement of reinventions to cross the threshold and go beyond as a long wave.

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Inferior to Creative Destruction: The Journey of Innovations Through Reinvention Waves

Innovation often emerges as a response to unmet needs or a desire to improve existing technologies. However, the path to wide-scale adoption and profitability is far from straightforward. Historically, significant…

Leveraging science the endless frontier in driving prosperity and creating decent jobs demands winning the global race of innovation

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Science the endless frontier–driving prosperity and creating jobs

Science the endless frontier refers to profiting from winning the global race of inventing technologies and innovating products for offering better means of Getting jobs done by leveraging the endless…

Importance of technology is vital for driving per capita GDP, quality of living standard and life expectancy of a growing number of fellow human beings

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Importance of Technology–fueling innovations in jobs to done

Despite 1.3m deaths in road accidents and 8.8m deaths from air pollution, why is the automobile density increasing? What is the substance of the debate of whether technology is a…

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

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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.…

Massive subsidies to regain the edge of US semiconductor industry will not likely succeed, unless progress is made in winning the global race of idea flow and monetisation

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US Semiconductor–from invention, supremacy to despair

The US semiconductor industry started with the invention of its Bell Labs. Subsequently, it attained supremacy in semiconductor production due to the success of making computers better and cheaper. Notably,…

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,…

Technology monopoly is the natural outcome of the race of making innovations increasingly better and cheaper through ideas

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Technology Monopoly — why and how to deal with

Among the top five most expensive companies, four are technology monopolies. Unlike Aramco, these companies have become so expensive due to their monopolistic situation in the accumulation of technology ideas.…

Powering clean buses faces policy dilemma as there is no clear winner between battery and hydrogen fuel cells--resulting in slow progress in cleaning city air

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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…

After getting at the top of silicon processing technology by leveraging the PC wave, Intel falling due to its failure to take advantage of smartphone wave

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Intel Falling Due to PC and Mobile Waves

News of Intel falling has been drawing traction. This is the company that started the chain reaction in forming Silicon Valley. It’s America’s High-tech icon. Despite initiatives, the USA has…

Multiple internal and external factors have contributed to the uprising of Taiwan's semiconductor monopoly

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Taiwan’s Semiconductor Monopoly – How did it arise?

More than sixty percent of global Foundry output is from Taiwan. Besides, TSMC alone has a 54 percent global Foundry market share. These two numbers are good enough to show…

High-tech candidate technologies offer the possibilities of fuelling creative waves of destruction out of reinvention of existing and products and processes

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High-tech – leveraging creative waves of destruction

We are bombarded with endless news about the possibilities of High-tech. Starting from venture capital fund managers, development practitioners to entrepreneurs, everybody seems to be after the high tech. Fund…

Economics of Technology

Riding the S-Curve: Navigating the Growth and Saturation of the Technology Lifecycle

Inferior to Creative Destruction: The Journey of Innovations Through Reinvention Waves

Science the endless frontier–driving prosperity and creating jobs

Importance of Technology–fueling innovations in jobs to done

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

US Semiconductor–from invention, supremacy to despair

STEM Education–what is the purpose?

Technology Monopoly — why and how to deal with

Powering Clean Buses – facing policy dilemma

Intel Falling Due to PC and Mobile Waves

Taiwan’s Semiconductor Monopoly – How did it arise?

High-tech – leveraging creative waves of destruction

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