Limited market development

Speculative growth tends to be directed towards narrow and specialized markets for new and specialized products rather than towards long-range comprehensive research to meet global needs. There is tension between market research and speculative growth since the latter lacks comprehensive, long-range vision, and therefore fails to hold market research or sales. Speculative growth focuses on inventing more products for a relatively small proportion of the world's population rather than creatively developing plans for getting goods to the people who need them most.