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The Experimental Nature of New Venture Creation

Capitalizing on Open Innovation 2.0

This book presents readers with the opportunity to fundamentally re-evaluate the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship, and to rethink how they might best be stimulated and fostered within our organizations and communities. The fundamental thesis of the book is that the entrepreneurial process is not a linear progression from novel idea to successful innovation, but is an iterative series of experiments, where progress depends on the persistence and resilience of the individuals involved, and their ability and to learn from failure as well as success. From this premise, the authors argue that the ideal environment for new venture creation is a form of “experimental laboratory,” a community of innovators where ideas are generated, shared, and refined; experiments are encouraged; and which in itself serves as a test environment for those ideas and experiments. This environment is quite different from the traditional “incubator,” which may impose the disciplines of the established firm too early in the development of the new venture. Featuring case examples of start-ups across a wide spectrum of industries, from Wikipedia to Ryanair, the authors explore the qualities of successful innovation, including a high tolerance of risk and unpredictability and commitment to building knowledge enterprises that value intangible assets. This volume is a clarion call to those in academia, enterprise, and government who seek to work together to promote innovation and entrepreneurship, with a stark message for academic institutions: engage or be left behind.

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The New Venture Adventure

Succeed with Professional Business Planning

This manual is aimed at helping the reader through the first stage of starting up an innovative, high growth company: writing a professional business plan. Should you have a new business idea with high-growth potential which you want to develop and realize. This book offers step by step guidance to what it takes to articulate a business plan, assess its feasibility and potential and crucially prepare and present it to the investment community. The trick is to take advantage of promising, innovative ideas, research and technolgy and financing in the form of venture capital or investment funds to achieve a breakhthrough. The authors emphasize that it is important to do things on a large scale. Setting up a company is by far the largest step you'll take: it involves a tremendous effort. Comparatively, the extra effort required to generate $30 million sales as opposed to, say $3 milion is small. Thinking big can even make the task easier, as many potential partners are more interested in large-scale proposals than less ambitious ones.

This manual is aimed at helping the reader through the first stage of starting up an innovative, high growth company: writing a professional business plan.

Female Entrepreneurship and the New Venture Creation

An International Overview

Women represent the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs today. Despite the enormous economic contributions of this group, female entrepreneurship remains under-explored and inadequately covered in academic literature. Female Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation aims to address this gap by shedding light on the unique aspects of female entrepreneurship. Tracing women’s journey along the venture creation process, Kariv’s book: highlights the creatively different ways in which women approach the entrepreneurial enterprise; takes into account different environmental and cultural constraints that impact female entrepreneurship; provides a theoretical framework for the venture creation process that is practical and broadly applicable; includes in-depth case studies drawn from contributors around the world. This book captures the diversity of female entrepreneurship and provides a valuable synthesis of the insights that emerge from the stories of women entrepreneurs around the world. It will be a valuable resource for students of entrepreneurship, as well as professionals.

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The Snowball Effect

Communication Techniques to Make You Unstoppable

The long-awaited follow-up to the international bestseller The Jelly Effect Communication is supposed to cause something. That’s the point of it. So, what do you want to achieve following your communication? Do you want someone to answer ‘yes’? Do you want to improve your relationships? Do you want people to understand exactly what you’re talking about, first time? Whatever you want to achieve, you’ll need decent communication to get there, and expert and bestselling author Andy Bounds shows us exactly how to nail our communication. Using the same conversational style that made The Jelly Effect so popular, The Snowball Effect is packed with short, rapid fire sections complete with visuals and special features to help us get serious results from our communication. The Snowball Effect explains how to: • Persuade people to say “yes” more quickly, more often • Enjoy your job more – because you’ll be calling the shots for a change • Remove the communication frustrations you feel all too often • Get more done, more quickly – because you’re getting people on your side faster (these techniques have saved people at least one month every year).

This is the essential, practical, easy-to-read guide that will revolutionize the way you communicate in order to get more done and do it more quickly, more pleasantly and less stressfully for optimum results in all that you do’—Ivan ...

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How to Design and Market High End Products

When making purchasing decisions, people are no longer keeping up with the Joneses, they are keeping up with the Trumps. In order to tap into this market and their willingness to pay high prices, companies must learn to design, develop, and market the products that this incredibly profitable market segment want. Written by two consultants from the pre-eminant design consulting firm in Europe and two consultants who are better than anyone at tapping into the wants of consumers, this book is needed by every company who wants to compete in todays marketplace, whether they sell cars, kitchen gadgets, mp3 players, or food. The authors begin by exploring the background and fundamentals of what works in contemporary luxury and high-end marketplaces. Next, they introduce a proven, qualitative, research-based tool for understanding your high-end customers, and use it to explore quantitative hypotheses about their future behavior, cultural differences, and the best ways to reach them. Building on this research and experimentation, yours"ll walk through creating an actionable scorecard for envisioning your own organizationrs"s best opportunities. From those companies that have a full portfolio of luxury brands to those companies that are looking to create (or recreate) a luxury brand to add to their product line, this book will provide everything they need, from ideas on design, to creating, marketing, and measuring the effectiveness of the luxury product.

From those companies that have a full portfolio of luxury brands to those companies that are looking to create (or recreate) a luxury brand to add to their product line, this book will provide everything they need, from ideas on design, to ...

Designing a new taxonomy of educational objectives

A critical step in helping all students achieve high standards! Robert Marzano brings Bloom's Taxonomy into the 21st century with a new model that incorporates the latest in cognitive science and research on how we learn. Students and educators reap the benefits of new ways to design instruction, curriculum and assessment. From student-led conferences to policy assessment implications, this definitive work brings assessment concepts up-to-date and offers practical solutions for today's classrooms. Highlights include: An overview of Bloom's Taxonomy A model for the new taxonomy The knowledge domains The three systems of thinking The next taxonomy and the three knowledge domains Applying the taxonomy to curriculum assessment design This landmark work provides an essential roadmap for educating today's students! Easily applied by teachers, administrators, and staff development personnel.

From student-led conferences to policy assessment implications, this definitive work brings assessment concepts up-to-date and offers practical solutions for today's classrooms.