A Nook for Books 124.0
Posted by m beduya on October 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I may have found a version of e-book reader I am ready to buy, Barnes & Noble’s Nook. Click the links at the bottom for a post and a video of its nice features. I have only two concerns that are typical with leading edge products.
Filed under Books and Journals, Brand and Product Development, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, Information and Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Learning and Teaching, Mashups - Technology-enabled, Miscellaneous · Tagged with non-rival partially excludable, product innovation, Romer space, two-sided market
Technology-Driven Evolution of the Concept of Product 117.0
Posted by m beduya on October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Over the years, the concept of Product has evolved and widened from the traditional, push USP as innovators try to find unserved markets or create new ones. In classic iteration and interaction, these concept changes have driven invention. In turn, they have also been driven by invention or enabled by it.
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Social Innovation · Tagged with endogenous technological change, increasing returns, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, positioning, product development, Romer space, unique selling proposition
SYNTHESiST Publishes at Technorati BlogCritics 116.6
Posted by m beduya on October 3, 2009 · 2 Comments
Technorati’s BlogCritics invited SYNTHESiST to contribute to their online magazine, BC. I accepted their invitation and sent my contribution which was published today: “Innovative Applications as Paul Romer’s Endogenous Technological Change Approaches Its 20th Anniversary”.
Filed under Books and Journals, Miscellaneous, News and Stories · Tagged with endogenous technological change, increasing returns, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, Romer space
Romer Space Innovation Finds Product Models for Viral Marketing 115.0
Posted by m beduya on September 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
As an innovation practitioner in a latecomer country, I am very interested in applications and diffusion of Paul Romer’s basic research findings. I think his 1990 paper works well as a model for knowledge-embedded as well as for viral products, both of which create high value addition from Total Factor Productivity(TFP).
Filed under Books and Journals, Brand and Product Development, Convergence of Technologies - Technology x Business Model, Mashups - Technology-enabled, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with diffusion, endogenous technological change, increasing returns, innovation, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, Romer space, total factor productivity, viral product
Oprah and the Black Eyed Peas with A Viral Marketing Lesson 110.0
Hearing Black Eyed Peas’ “I gotta feeling” blaring in the background at the 2009 US Open tennis tournament turned on a light bulb in my head. It taught me two things: firstly, a technique (I will call PAIRS) for designing the architecture of a viral product and, secondly, that viral product architecture can be constructed [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development · Tagged with Black Eyed Peas, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Romer, Romer space, viral marketing, Will.i.am
