Imitation is the Secret of Industrial Development. Who has been able to achieve this?
We are not talking about unethical and illegal behavior, i.e. we are not talking about "imitating a patented product" or "imitating a branded product".
Imitation, or to put it in engineering terms; "Reverse Engineering" is one of the key initiatives and "force multipliers" of industrial development.
We are not talking about unethical and illegal behavior, i.e. we are not talking about "imitating a patented product" or "imitating a branded product".
However; Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Taiwan, China, India, South Africa, Turkey, Mexico, India, South Africa, Turkey, Mexico; India, South Africa, Turkey, Mexico, etc., which have started and carried out industrial development very rapidly, have been able to perceive the conceptual design, detailed design, designs of the main and sub-components within the product family and their functions within the integrated system by analyzing and synthesizing the conceptual design, detailed design, designs of the main and sub-components within the product family and their functions within the integrated system very well, by continuously assembling and disassembling these systems, and then they have been able to develop industrial products with low or high features close to each other, and they have been able to attach "brand value" to many of these products.
After World War II, Japan, which had been an industrial giant before World War II, was left with a completely destroyed industrial wreckage. It began its industrial revival with the design and manufacture of automobiles in an environment where its guardian, the United States, was deciding what it could do and to what extent.
The name of their first automobile, Toyota, comes from Toyoda, the surname of the company's founding family. However, according to a rumor that turned into an urban legend, the Americans despised the Japanese, whose industrial infrastructure they had turned into ruins, so much in the industry that they constantly told the Japanese in a derogatory tone, "you can only make toy autos, not autos". For this reason, the first Japanese automobile that hit the roads in 1957 was named Toyota, inspired by toy auto. 50 years later, the same Toyota dethroned the American General Motors, the company that produced the most automobiles in the world, and Toyota is sold mostly in the USA.
Yes; after World War II, the hardworking Japanese people began a great adventure of industrial development. They first bought every industrial product they needed from the West, then "reverse-engineered" those products, then developed them further to create their own unique designs and became world leaders in many products.
South Korea, Taiwan and China have followed the same pattern.
R&D is an expensive process. If it is carried out aimlessly and without sufficient resources, it will do more harm than good.
R&D is an expensive process. If the added value of the goods and services we produce is not enough to allocate resources for R&D, following the Japanese pattern would be the most pragmatic move. First, we should produce what we can produce with minimum commonality, provide sufficient benefit, collect financing, and then allocate a portion of that financing to R&D. Otherwise, the R&D we will do will be spent on "Prof. Zihni Sinir projects". Those who wish can try, they can spend the capital that can barely turn the wheels of their businesses on R&D.
Prof.Dr.Zihni Sinir-GIRGIR
Countries and societies that have developed without completing their industrial development are rare.
Since the invention of the wheel, mankind has been able to develop to the extent that it has been able to achieve industrial development. Developed societies are also happy.
The catalyst for development is industry, the catalyst of industry is production, the activator of production is imitation, and the accelerator is R&D. R&D requires money and human resources (creative, knowledgeable, experienced, hardworking). Imitation, on the other hand, is the triggering incentive of R&D.
Conclusion:
We should not hesitate to imitate (reverse engineering); the world's arrows, bows, bows, locomotives, automobiles, airplanes, etc. were not invented one by one from scratch. Countries/companies did not invest time, money and effort to reinvent a new industrial product that someone else made, i.e. they did not "reinvent America". They first imitated and then tried to develop, and sometimes did develop, something new that someone else did.
