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Primitive emergence of technology possibilities creates uncertainty about the future or hype leading to wrong decision, missed opportunity

Primitive Emergence of Technology Possibilities: A Major Source of Technology Uncertainty

Technological uncertainty is an enduring challenge that has profound implications for businesses, policymakers, and society at large. One of the primary sources of this uncertainty is the primitive emergence of…

Sustained Wealth Creation from Ideas: Science and Engineering Competence for Inventions and Scalability is Not Enough

In a Market Economy, the freedom to compete and profit from ideas is a foundational principle. However, this freedom alone is insufficient to drive sustained Wealth creation from ideas. Historical…

R&D Risk Mitigation through Progressive Rollout: Unlocking Value from Increasingly Complex Technology Possibilities

Progressive rollout is an essential strategy for deriving economic value from emerging or pacing technologies through R&D risk mitigation. This management approach involves incrementally applying technological advances to progressively larger…

Refining Acquired Technologies: Crucial Role of Internal R&D for Scaling up Innovations

Irrespective of greatness, no single technology alone can power successful innovations. No organization can fully depend on internal technology inventions either to unlock value from reinventions and evolution of innovations.…

Crossing the Chasm of Geoffrey Moore fails to articulate the role of technology hurdles in causing chasms in technology innovation diffusion path and role of R&D in crossing them

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Crossing the Chasm–cause, means and opportunity?

An Innovation chasm signifies the slowdown or cessation of diffusion between two customer segments. Crossing the chasm refers to overcoming the pause of technology innovation diffusion between early adopters and…

Growing maturity and increasing gap between the start of reinvention waves and inflection points have been reducing the conversion of R&D outputs into economic value--resulting in weakening endless frontier

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Endless Frontier Weakening – declining R&D productivity

R&D outputs have been growing. There has been very high growth in publications, patents, and STEM graduates. Particularly, outputs from China, India, and many less developed countries are showing an…

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High-Tech Strategies in Perspectives

High-tech has been a lucrative industry. How to enter into this industry has been a strategy question. Although the journey started at the Bell laboratories, many countries are now active…

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Engineering Management in Innovation Era

Engineering management has many connotations, and they have been evolving. Let’s have an acceptable definition, to begin with. Engineering management in the Innovation era involves the ability to i. interpret…

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Fuels Innovation Economy

Although ECE education is focusing on sharing existing body of knowledge, they increasingly need the competence of developing ideas for improving existing products and processes, and also innovating new ones. Most importantly, they need to know how to succeed to trade them in the globally competitive market economy.

R&D Management

Primitive Emergence of Technology Possibilities: A Major Source of Technology Uncertainty

Sustained Wealth Creation from Ideas: Science and Engineering Competence for Inventions and Scalability is Not Enough

R&D Risk Mitigation through Progressive Rollout: Unlocking Value from Increasingly Complex Technology Possibilities

Refining Acquired Technologies: Crucial Role of Internal R&D for Scaling up Innovations

Crossing the Chasm–cause, means and opportunity?

Endless Frontier Weakening – declining R&D productivity

High-Tech Strategies in Perspectives

Engineering Management in Innovation Era

Electrical and Computer Engineering Fuels Innovation Economy

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