Knowledge of markets, materials, technology, is a factor: - Vital and strategic, - Important but not determinant, - Secondary.?

Knowledge of market, and competitors products play an important role in the market. You can deal or bargain in a better way by comparing and answer better also

information technology and  knowledge of markets, as you say, are  viral, strategical and importance factors  that provide  scientific questionnaires  and reports  relating the past with the present but what about future ? so these factors are not the only factors you depends on  to take major decisions. 

so the most important factors that can be considered more efficient are the future view and the prediction of what the market will be in the future and what will be the major plan i should organize to reach growth 

I believe the former covers a lot of aspects of that but in additional you need to be able to utilize the knowledge, technology and materials in order to create the vision that you have. Not only that a key factor are employees who are the ones who will steer your ship and can be one of the major factors in the success or failure of the business. Many more factors come into play once you are in that phase.