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A great deal of literature has indeed been published about the research lifecycle in modern and contemporary times particularly over the past couple of decades beginning from the 1980’s or so; it also goes without saying that the quantum of such output has been greatly amplified since the dawn of the twenty-first; likewise, a great deal has also been written about product development lifecycles, and technology lifecycles, and all these concepts have been approaches from multiple points of view, and from multiple perspectives. However, we consider all these to be highly inadequate and grossly deficient on two grounds, because they do not cover the end to end process from contextualization of knowledge to communication and universalization or ubiquitization of knowledge, but they are also innately and inherently biased towards commercializable products and practical technology, not the knowledge creation process itself which is so essential to the escalation of scientific and cultural activity. They must also be naturally be branded as Eurocentric given the fact that much of the knowledge production processes, particularly in the social sciences have been centered around the western hemisphere, with minimal to no tangible outputs from other parts of the world. This is because the west has thus far ruled the roost in theoretical and conceptual knowledge in all facets of human knowledge, but particularly in various fields of what people consider to be the social sciences. It is there highly naturally and highly obvious that multiple data sets were not adequately considered or considered at all in the process of theorization or theory formulation.