Cases in Technological Entrepreneurship : Converting Ideas Into Value

Jane Smisor Bastien; James W Bastien

Несложные произведения для новичков. Представлены ноты для произведений нескольких тем: барокко, классика, романтика, ... Lire plus…

Cynthia J Becker

In Southeastern Morocco, Around The Oasis Of Tafilalet, The Ait Khabbash People Weave Brightly Colored Carpets, Embroider Indigo Head Coverings, Paint Their Faces With Saffron, And Wear Ornate Jewelry. Their Extraordinarily Detailed Arts Are Rich In Cultural Symbolism; They Are Always Breathtakingly Beautiful--and They Are Typically Made By Women. Like Other Amazigh (berber) Groups (but In Contrast To The Arab Societies Of North Africa), The Ait Khabbash Have Entrusted Their Artistic Responsibilities To Women. Cynthia Becker Spent Years In Morocco Living Among These Women And, Through Family Connections And Female Fellowship, Achieved Unprecedented Access To The Artistic Rituals Of The Ait Khabbash. The Result Is More Than A Stunning Examination Of The Arts Themselves, It Is Also An Illumination Of Women's Roles In Islamic North Africa And The Many Ways In Which Women Negotiate Complex Social And Religious Issues.^ One Of The Reasons Amazigh Women Are Artists Is That The Arts Are Expressions Of Ethnic Identity, And It Follows That The Guardians Of Amazigh Identity Ought To Be Those Who Literally Ensure Its Continuation From Generation To Generation, The Amazigh Women. Not Surprisingly, The Arts Are Visual Expressions Of Womanhood, And Fertility Symbols Are Prevalent. Controlling The Visual Symbols Of Amazigh Identity Has Given These Women Power And Prestige. Their Clothing, Tattoos, And Jewelry Are Public Identity Statements; Such Public Artistic Expressions Contrast With... Lire plus…

Jose A. Medina-Garrido, Jose A. Medina-Garrido, Salustiano Martinez-Fierro, Jose Ruiz Navarro

Hosting a business venture entirely through information technology (IT) has increasingly been the initiative of many entrepreneurs. The existence of IT in the small-business sector promotes entrepreneurship by providing opportunities outside of any other business realm: using IT as a strategic advantage, entrepreneurs can quickly move toward achieving their business goals. Cases on Information Technology and Entrepreneurship is a cutting-edge look into how IT can be the structural foundation of an entrepreneurship, and describes specific examples of IT as the base of a start-up company--providing insight into the successes and failures of applying IT in innovative ways. Lire plus…

Edited By Colette Henry

The Creative Industries represent a vital, exciting and rapidly changing field of activity; one that is now recognised as a key growth sector in the knowledge-based economy. However, there is still a general lack of understanding of what is meant by the term 'Creative Industry', and interestingly, to date, the creative sector has not been the subject of concerted academic research. Thus, this timely book aims to inform academics, policy makers, support agencies and creative entrepreneurs about current priority issues on the Creative Industries research agenda, and platforms some of the key challenges yet to be addressed. Leading academics deal with a range of issues within the Creative Industries across different countries and contexts and the book provides valuable insights into the creative entrepreneurial process from an international perspective. Lire plus…

Thomas N. Duening, Robert A. Hisrich, Michael A. Lechter

Recognizing the unique needs of the technology startup, Duening focuses on intellectual property development, funding, and marketing/selling more than other texts in this market. Extensive use of technology examples, case studies, and assignments keeps the book relevant and motivating for engineering students. A full supplements package, including instructor manual and lecture notes, makes it easy to get the course up and running. * rich in case studies, examples, and in-chapter elements that focus on the challenges of launching and operating a technology venture; * a more in-depth examination of intellectual property development and management than is common in business-focused entrepreneurship texts; * a more in-depth treatment of valuation, deal structuring, and equity preservation issues than is common in business-focused entrepreneurship texts; * extensive discussion of technology management and continuous innovation as a competitive advantage; * addresses the issue of leading, managing, motivating, and compensating technical workers; * spends more time on the fundamentals of marketing and selling, as these are elements of entrepreneurship often most neglected by engineers and scientists; Lire plus…

Parakilas, Professor James, Parakilas, James

This delightfully written book examines every aspect of the history of the piano over the past three hundred years. It deals with the piano's place in classical and popular music cultures, its meaning in different eras, its acceptance in all parts of the world, and images it has inspired in literature, art, and the movies. This new paperback edition includes forty-seven halftone illustrations. Lire plus…

Robert Harper

Preface......Page 3 I Judgements and Rules......Page 17 Judgements......Page 19 Inference Rules......Page 20 Derivations......Page 21 Rule Induction......Page 23 Iterated and Simultaneous Inductive Definitions......Page 25 Defining Functions by Rules......Page 27 Modes......Page 28 Exercises......Page 29 Derivability......Page 31 Admissibility......Page 33 Hypothetical Inductive Definitions......Page 35 Exercises......Page 37 Abstract Syntax Trees......Page 39 Abstract Binding Trees......Page 41 Parameterization......Page 46 Exercises......Page 47 Rule Schemes......Page 49 Generic Derivability......Page 50 Generic Inductive Definitions......Page 51 Parametric Derivability......Page 52 Exercises......Page 53 II Levels of Syntax......Page 55 Strings Over An Alphabet......Page 57 Lexical Structure......Page 58 Context-Free Grammars......Page 62 Grammatical Structure......Page 63 Ambiguity......Page 64 Exercises......Page 66 Hierarchical and Binding Structure......Page 67 Parsing Into Abstract Syntax Trees......Page 69 Parsing Into Abstract Binding Trees......Page 71 Exercises......Page 73 III Statics and Dynamics......Page 75 Syntax......Page 77 Type System......Page 78 Structural Properties......Page 80 Exercises......Page 82 Transition Systems......Page 83 Structural Dynamics......Page 84 Contextual Dynamics......Page 87 Equational Dynamics......Page 89 Exercises......Page 92 Type Safety......Page 93 Progress......Page 94 Run-Time Errors......Page 96 Exercises......Page... Lire plus…

Richard Dawkins; Illustrations By Lalla Ward

How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as "the sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius"), Richard Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery. Dawkins has been named by the London Daily Telegraph "the most brilliant contemporary preacher of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution." More than any other contemporary scientist, he has lent credence to the idea that human beings - indeed, all living things - are mere vehicles of information, gene carriers whose primary purpose is propagation of their own DNA. In this new book, Dawkins explains evolution as a flowing river of genes, genes meeting, competing, uniting, and sometimes separating to form new species. Filled with absorbing, at times alarming, stories about the world of bees and orchids, "designed" eyes and human ancestors, River Out of Eden answers tantalizing questions: Why are forest trees tall - wouldn't each survive more economically if all were short? Why is the sex ratio fifty-fifty when relatively few males are needed to impregnate many females? Why do we inherit genes for fatal illnesses? Who was our last universal ancestor? Dawkins suggests that it was more likely to have been an Adam than an African Eve. By "reverse engineering," he deduces the purpose of life ("God's Utility Function"). Hammering... Lire plus…

Kenneth Hamilton; Oxford University Press

Kenneth Hamilton's Book Engagingly And Lucidly Dissects The Oft-invoked Myth Of A Great Tradition, Or Golden Age Of Pianism. It Is Written Both For Players And For Members Of Their Audiences By A Pianist Who Believes That Scholarship And Readability Can Go Hand-in-hand. Hamilton Discusses In Meticulous Yet Lively Detail The Performance-style Of Great Pianists From Liszt To Paderewski, And Delves Into The Far-from-inevitable Development Of The Piano Recital. He Entertainingly Recounts How Classical Concerts Evolved From Exuberant, Sometimes Riotous Events Into The Formal, Funereal Trotting Out Of Predictable Pieces They Can Be Today, How An Often Unhistorical Respect For The Score Began To Replace Pianists' Improvisations And Adaptations, And How The Clinical Custom Arose That An Audience Should Be Seen And Not Heard. Pianists Will Find Food For Thought Here On Their Repertoire And The Traditions Of Its Performance.^ Hamilton Chronicles Why Pianists Of The Past Did Not Always Begin A Piece With The First Note Of The Score, Nor End With The Last. He Emphasizes That Anxiety Over Wrong Notes Is A Relatively Recent Psychosis, And Playing Entirely From Memory A Relatively Recent Requirement. Audiences Will Encounter A Vivid Account Of How Drastically Different Are The Recitals They Attend Compared To Concerts Of The Past, And How Their Own Role Has Diminished From Noisily Active Participants In The Concert Experience To Passive Recipients Of Artistic Benediction From The Stage.... Lire plus…

Jane E Goodman; Proquest (Firm)

"[S]ure to interest a number of different audiences, from language and music scholars to specialists on North Africa.... a superb book, clearly written, analytically incisive, about very important issues that have not been described elsewhere." -- John Bowen, Washington UniversityIn this nuanced study of the performance of cultural identity, Jane E. Goodman travels from contemporary Kabyle Berber communities in Algeria and France to the colonial archives, identifying the products, performances, and media through which Berber identity has developed. In the 1990s, with a major Islamist insurgency underway in Algeria, Berber cultural associations created performance forms that challenged Islamist premises while critiquing their own village practices. Goodman describes the phenomenon of new Kabyle song, a form of world music that transformed village songs for global audiences. She follows new songs as they move from their producers to the copyright agency to the Parisian stage, highlighting the networks of circulation and exchange through which Berbers have achieved global visibility. Lire plus…

Katherine E. Hoffman

We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco explores how political economic shifts over the last century have reshaped the language practices and ideologies of women (and men) in the plains and mountains of rural Morocco. Offers a unique and richly textured ethnography of language maintenance and shift as well as language and place-making among an overlooked Muslim group Examines how Moroccan Berbers use language to integrate into the Arab-speaking world and retain their own distinct identity Illuminates the intriguing semiotic and gender issues embedded in the culture Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series Lire plus…

F. E. Kirby

This historical survey focuses on music for piano solo but also includes important compositions for piano duet and two pianos. Scholarly yet readable, it covers the entire repertoire from the Renaissance to the late 20th century and incorporates a bibliography of 1,100 sources for further study. Lire plus…

Robert Montagne; David Seddon; Ernest Gellner

France entered the North African world in 1830. Its overt political role there ended in 1962. The interpenetration of cultures and languages which resulted from the colonial conquest has not ended yet. No doubt a time will come when an intellectual balance sheet of this epoch comes to be drawn up. When this is done, Robert Montagne's name will head the list of those Frenchmen who have made a study of Berber society. The brilliance of his ideas, the thoroughness and perceptiveness of his documentation, the range of his historical and comparative vision, and (a trait not always found in scholarly writing on North Africa) the simplicity and vigour of his style, all help to make plain that we have here a social thinker and observer of the very first rank, and one who deserves to be far better known outside the French-speaking world than he is at present. Lire plus…

Wolfgang Runge

The treatise is the first coherent and comprehensive presentation of the important sub-field of ""technology entrepreneurship"" emphasizing the science and engineering perspectives. It is a presentation of technology entrepreneurship as an inter-cultural approach referring to the US and Germany. It integrates micro- and macro aspects referring to numerous cases of firms' foundations. The book provides also a new semi-quantitative approach to growth of new technology ventures Lire plus…

Howard Frederick, Allan O'connor, Donald F. Kuratko

"Entrepreneurship: theory, process, practice covers the foundations of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial growth for the Asia-Pacific entrepreneur. The text emphasises the development of a business idea with the major theme of "Environmental Entrepreneurship". Alongside a strong theoretical framework, the authors have included a wealth of experiential learning methodology. Sustainability, ethical and social responsibility, and experiential learning elements set this text apart from others in its discipline. 'People, Planet and Profit' encapsulates the underlying principle throughout."--Publisher's website Lire plus…

Richard Blundel; Nigel Lockett; Catherine L Wang

A detailed and critical analysis of the multiple types of entrepreneurship, helping students to understand the practical skills and theoretical concepts needed to create their very own entrepreneurial venture. Split into two parts, the book provides an even balance between theory and practice. Part 1 covers the practical activities involved in new entrepreneurial ventures, and Part 2 uses the latest research to explore entrepreneurship from different perspectives. The second edition features a new author, Catherine Wang, who brings specialist knowledge in entrepreneurial learning, ethnic minority entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurship. There are new chapters on the Varieties of Entrepreneurship , including social entrepreneurship (not-for-profit) and Intrapreneurship (employees within organizations) and Entrepreneurial Learning , which explores how entrepreneurs hone and develop their thinking. There is also a collection of new international case studies, including Dyson, Facebook, Made.com, and examples of entrepreneurship in China and Ghana. The book is complemented by a companion website featuring online resources for instructors and students, including PowerPoint Slides, additional mini case studies, guidance on new venture creation activities, video links, and revision tips. Suitable reading for students taking modules in Entrepreneurship or New venture creation at upper undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Lire plus…