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Webcasts
What Is The Smart Grid?
Nov 2009
In this webcast, the panelists define the "Smart grid," a better alternative to clean energy.
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Smart Energy: A Marriage Of Two Industries
Nov 2009
In this webcast, Professor Nalin Kulatilaka discusses how smart energy creates a marriage between two very different kinds of industries - and the opportunities this marriage affords.
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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The Smart Grid: The Key To Less Usage & Cleaner Technologies
Nov 2009
In this webcast, Brian Dumaine explains how - and why - the smart grid is the glue holding together the two fundamental aspects that the world's rich nations will depend on to cut their carbon...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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The Smart Grid As Rich Playground For Small Businesses
Nov 2009
In this webcast, the panelists explain the opportunities for entrepreneurship and technical innovations that the smart grid presents.
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Webcasts
October 2009: Dean's Speaker Series
Jan 2010
Howe addresses the important issues of innovation and entrepreneurship at E&Y and in today's dynamic business environment.
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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Podcasts
How Fairness Enhances Innovation
Aug 2008
In this podcast, Marshall Van Alstyne discusses the benefits of procedural fairness and information sharing in technology innovation. According to Van Alstyne, Associate Professor in the...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Webcasts
January 2009: Weatherspoon Lecture: Part 1 Speech
Jan 2010
Cherie Blair, Human Rights Lawyer and wife of former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in her address entitled, "Women Mean Business," Ms. Blair discusses the advancements women have made as...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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January 2009: Weatherspoon Lecture: Part 2 Speech
Jan 2010
Cherie Blair, Human Rights Lawyer and wife of former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in her address entitled, "Women Mean Business," Ms. Blair discusses the advancements women have made as...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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White Papers
Firm Productivity, Innovation And Financial Development
Feb 2010
How do firm-specific actions - in particular, innovation - affect firm productivity? And what is the role of the financial sector in facilitating higher productivity? Using a rich firm-level...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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Podcasts
Fred Dust
Feb 2010
Fred Dust, practice lead, IDEO, explains how design thinking can solve business problems. This innovative approach involves designing your way into a solution.
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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Webcasts
2008 Financial Innovation Conference: Leo Melamed
Oct 2008
Melamed, Chairman Emeritus of the CME Group and the founder of the first futures market, delivered the keynote address at the first-ever Conference on Financial Innovation hosted by Owen.
Provided by Vanderbilt University (Owen)
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2008 Financial Innovation Conference: Robert Merton
Oct 2008
Merton, a 1997 Nobel laureate in Economics and co-author of two landmark financial studies speaks on the current tumult in the financial markets and the future of financial innovation.
Provided by Vanderbilt University (Owen)
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Podcasts
Chicago GSB Podcast: Gururaj Deshpande On The Next Wave Of Technology Innovations
Mar 2008
This broadcast features Gururaj Deshpande, the billionaire chairman of Sycamore Networks, addressing the TechVision 2008 conference which looked at key issues and trends in high tech. Deshpande...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago GSB Podcast: Brady Dougan On Innovation In The IBanking industry
Dec 2007
This broadcast features the CEO of Credit Suisse Group, Brady Dougan, AB '81, MBA '82. Dougan discusses innovation in an industry he feels "Recreates itself every 20 years or so."
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Whole Foods John Mackey 7-16-2010
Jul 2010
Whole Foods Market got its start with the simple idea of providing healthy foods to consumers, says founder John Mackey. He describes how the retail chain grew from one small location, its...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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2009 Ten Years Hence
Jul 2009
Josh Dorfman is an environmental entrepreneur, media personality and author of The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living. He is also the founder and CEO of Vivavi, a...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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2010 Ten Years Hence
Feb 2010
Fred Dust is a Partner and a Practice Lead for IDEO, the global design and innovation firm. At IDEO, Fred leads Systems at Scale, the group responsible for helping clients with large systemic...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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2009 Ten Years Hence: Patrick Mulva
Feb 2009
Patrick T. Mulva is vice president and controller of ExxonMobil Corp. in Irving, Texas. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM, Data Privacy Challenges and Solutions
Apr 2010
Data Privacy, Data Protection and Trans-border Data Flow are critical issues for Human Resources organizations operating in a Global Environment. Read this whitepaper to see how PeopleSoft is...
Provided by Oracle
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Oracle E-Business Suite HCM: Data Privacy Challenges and Solutions
Apr 2010
Data Privacy, Data Protection and Trans-border Data Flow are critical issues for Human Resources organizations operating in a Global Environment. Read this whitepaper to see how Oracle is...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
How Small Business Owners Can Go Green And Save Green
Aug 2010
It's all the rage to talk about green cities, green businesses, and green policies. It makes sense in the big picture to take care of the planet we're on. But what does "Going green" really mean...
Provided by www.Bestmanagementarticles.com
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Whitepapers
Beyond Virtualization: Building a Long Term Information Systems Strategic Plan
Oct 2010
Paper written by Clabby Analytics discussing the benefits of a big-picture IT optimization plan that includes consolidation, virtualization, workload management, automated process flow and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The System x X5 Difference IBM Innovation on Industry Standard Servers
Oct 2010
For years, Industry Standard Servers have benefited organizations, but those days are over. This white paper shows how IBM eX5 systems allow organizations to combine the full advantages of Intel's...
Provided by IBM
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Podcasts
Inside The Mind Of A Reluctant Entrepreneur
May 2009
Numenta's Jeff Hawkins, a frequent company founder, inventor, and product designer for Palm and Handspring, highlights lessons learned during his tenure in technology. He also confesses that these...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Anyone Can Be An Entrepreneur
Nov 2009
Artists Quincy Jones III and Chamilionaire discuss the myriad ways that online media and technology have leveled the playing field for "e-hustling", or the pursuit of entrepreneurship. Jones...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Changing The World through Innovation
Nov 2009
Stanford President John Hennessy kicks off the 2009 Global Innovation Tournament by challenging students to solve the world's major problems through innovation.
Provided by Stanford University
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New Opportunities In Search Engine Technology
Nov 2008
When Alta Vista launched, it indexed about 50 percent of the Web. Years later, Google launched at the same capacity. But the opportunity today in search engine technology, says Cuil co-founder...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Great Ideas Derive From Well-Rested Minds
Jan 2010
Being a workaholic is no guarantee of success. David Heinemeier Hansson points out that 37signals' main product, Basecamp, was created on 10 hours a week of development for a total of six months....
Provided by Stanford University
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Classroom Experiments In Entrepreneurship
May 2009
If you had five dollars and two hours, what would you do to make as much money as possible? In this webcast, STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig recalls a classroom exercise in creative thinking...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Entrepreneurship Is A State Of Mind
Apr 2008
Being an entrepreneur is more than just starting a business, says Shutterfly CEO and dot-com veteran Jeff Housenbold. Entrepreneurial thinking involves an innovative mindset to create new...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Responsible Engineering In The Modern Age (Entire Talk)
Oct 2009
Whereas the 20th century belonged to the scientist, the 21st century, says Sun Micosystems' CTO Greg Papadopoulos, is the domain of the engineer. Rather than secretly toiling away on new...
Provided by Stanford University
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Evangelizing For The Lean Startup (Entire Talk)
Sep 2009
Speaker, author, and entrepreneur Eric Ries shares rapid fire wisdom on building nimble, responsive, and efficient online software-based businesses. He also offers his wisdom on streamlining...
Provided by Stanford University
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Google.org's Five Core Initiatives
May 2008
After a mock trial session to whittle down the most critical causes from an applicant pool of 10,000, Google.org chose just five areas of concentration: renewable energy, plug-in vehicles,...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Field Observations With Fresh Eyes
Nov 2008
Design firm IDEO's General Manager Tom Kelley shares a case study that demonstrates the value opportunities that can arise when designers, innovators, and entrepreneurs see with fresh eyes. He...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Using Your Whole Brain
Nov 2008
Fine tune your left brain, but don't overlook the opportunities to let your right brain make its mark. Tom Kelley, General Manager of IDEO, also discusses the use of the "Hare" brain, meaning the...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Innovation Made Personal
Nov 2008
Tom Kelley, the highly acclaimed general manager of IDEO and author of best-selling books on creativity, targets his thoughts on corporate creativity to the inexperienced student - and how the...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Vision Versus Perspective
Apr 2009
Everyone has a perspective, says Jensen Huang, but to call it a "Vision" implies elitism and exclusion. This NVIDIA Co-founder insists that those with a new idea for business approach the world...
Provided by Stanford University
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Creative Direct Marketing
Apr 2008
While at EBay, Jeff Housenbold, now the CEO of Shutterfly, managed to enroll 65,000 new subscribers a day, and shepherded the company toward being the first to use Google's Adwords. In the...
Provided by Stanford University
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The Five Whys
Sep 2009
Understand and question deeply the root causes - i.e. the "Human problems" - behind every technical mishap, else your startup will be hindered in its progress. So advises entrepreneur and author...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Cultivating An Attitude Of Wisdom
Nov 2008
Be confident in what you know well, but be distrusting enough of what you don't know to keep yourself learning more at all times. This axiom will keep life-long learners of innovation thirsting to...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Option Pricing For GARCH-Type Models With Generalized Hyperbolic Innovations
Aug 2010
In this paper, the authors provide a new dynamic asset pricing model for plain vanilla options and they discuss its ability to produce minimum mispricing errors on equity option books. Given the...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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Competition, Innovation And Distance To Frontier
Nov 2008
According to a recent literature, the positive effect of competition is supposed to be growing with the proximity to the technological frontier. Using a variety of indicators, the paper tests the...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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White Papers
A Theory Of Total Factor Productivity And The Convergence Hypothesis: Workers' Innovations As An Essential Element
Jun 2009
A theory of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is needed to explain why substantial differences in international income have been observed. This paper presents a theory of TFP that incorporates...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Financial Appraisal Of The Innovation Projects
Jun 2009
The main objective of the financial appraisal of an innovation project is to measure the rentability of those projects. The financial appraisal of an innovation project is similarly to investment...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Firms? Innovative Performance: The Mediating Role Of Innovative Collaborations
Jul 2009
While existing studies have provided many insightful discussions on the antecedents to innovative collaborations and the benefits of collaborative behavior, few studies have focused on the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Influence Of Organizational And Individual Factors
Jul 2009
An individual's intent to pursue an entrepreneurial career can result from the work environment and from personal factors. Drawing on the entrepreneurial intentions and the Person-Environment...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Analysis Of Innovation And Energy Profiles In The Turkish Manufacturing Sector
Jul 2009
The authors present Turkey's manufacturing-sector innovation data and, for the first time, analyze likely relationships among GDP growth, sectoral innovation intensities, energy consumptions, and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
An Agent Based Cournot Simulation With Innovation: Identifying The Determinants Of Market Concentration
Jul 2009
In this paper, the author develops a hybrid model that contains elements of both Agent Based Simulations (ABS) as well as analytic Cournot models, to study the effects of firm characteristics,...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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What Lies Beneath The Internationalization Of Firms In A Regional Innovation System?
Apr 2011
The aim of the paper is to identify the most efficient internationalization strategies of SMEs firms belonging to various industrial districts localized in a particularly dynamic Regional...
Provided by University of Padova
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Learning At The Boundaries In An "Open Regional Innovation System": A Focus On Firms Innovation Strategies In The Emilia Romagna Life Science Industry
Feb 2010
The paper investigates the existence of an Open Regional Innovation System (ORIS model). This model is characterised by the firms' adoption of an open innovation strategy, which overcomes not only...
Provided by University of Padova
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How Does Knowledge Matter Patenting Inventions?
Mar 2010
While there is robust empirical evidence that firm patenting is positively associated with various measures of overall performance and competitiveness, less is known about what determines the...
Provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Looking For Performance: How Innovation And Strategy May Affect Market Orientation Models
Apr 2010
Despite 20 years of research into various aspects of the 'Market Orientation' (MO) construct, dubiety persists regarding the existence, nature and significancy of the relationship between market...
Provided by Universidad de Zaragoza
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Determinants Of The Disposition To Imitate Or To Innovate
Dec 2007
The aims of this paper are the following. Firstly, the authors delimitate the innovation and imitation concepts. Secondly, using Structural equation modeling method, they empirically test the...
Provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Network Developments In Support Of Innovation And User Needs
Dec 2009
This paper makes a case for investment in a competitive, open-access national fibre-to-the-home network rollout based on potential spillovers in four key sectors of the economy: electricity,...
Provided by OECD
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Assessment And Innovation In Education
Mar 2011
This paper proposes three main ways of combining assessment and innovation: Developing a wide range of performance measurements for both students and schools; rethinking the alignment of standards...
Provided by OECD
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Open Plan Schools In Portugal: Failure Or Innovation?
Mar 2011
An open plan school, simply defined, is "A school built to a design which does not include self contained classrooms" (Hamilton, 1976). It has a fewer internal doors and walls than a school with...
Provided by OECD
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Stars, Stripes Or Goldilocks: Employee Relations Set The Tone
Sep 2010
Does your firm foster innovation and creativity like a Google or Apple? Or perhaps the star system came crashing down when the economy hit bottom? Something considered more elusive (yet tangible...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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Culture Values Entrepreneurship And Growth
Sep 2009
The authors integrate a social norm which associates status to accumulation of capital and consumption into a simple model of endogenous growth. They show that societies which place a greater...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Do Risk Attitudes Differ Within The Group Of Entrepreneurs?
Sep 2009
The notion of risk and entrepreneurship has been widely discussed in the entrepreneurship literature. Starting a business involves risk and requires a risk-taking attitude. Most studies have...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Pros And Cons Of Backing Winners In Innovation Policy
Oct 2009
In the economics profession there is a fierce debate whether industrial and innovation policy should be targeted to specific sectors or firms. This paper discusses the welfare effects of such...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
R&D And Innovation Empirical Analysis For Tunisian Firms
Oct 2009
In the context of economic globalization and of the internationalization of R&D activity, innovation is becoming one of the most important assets for corporations in developed and emerging...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
A Note On Environmental Policy And Innovation When Governments Cannot Commit
Mar 2011
It is widely accepted that one of the most important characteristics of an effective climate policy is to provide firms with credible incentives to make long-run investments in R&D that can...
Provided by Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
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Patterns And Barriers For Innovation And R&D Cooperation Between Argentine And Spanish Firms
Feb 2011
This paper examines co-operative innovation and Research and Development (R&D) behaviour between Argentine and Spanish firms. Based on theoretical perspectives from the literature, the authors...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Interaction With Universities And Firm~s Innovative Performance: Evidence From The Spanish Innovation Survey
Jul 2010
This paper analyses the effect of interaction with universities on firms' innovation output, measured as the degree of novelty of product innovation. The analysis is based on a sample of 3,257...
Provided by INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) Ciudad Politécnica de la innovacion
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The Transformative Capacity Of New Technologies How Innovations Affect Sectoral Change: Conceptual Considerations
Mar 2008
Following up on recent debates about sectoral systems of innovation and production, the paper introduces a heuristic framework for analyzing and explaining distinct patterns of technology-based...
Provided by EconStor
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The Regional Dimension Of Sectoral Innovativeness An Empirical Investigation Of Two Specialised Supplier And Two Science-Based Industries
May 2010
The aim of this paper is to test how geographical and technological proximity relate to a particular industry's innovative output. Two mechanisms are therefore tested, i.e. agglomeration economies...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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Entry And Incumbent Innovation
May 2010
The authors explore how the threat of entry influences the innovation activity of an incumbent. They show that the incumbent's investment is hump-shaped in the entry threat. When the entry threat...
Provided by Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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The Impact Of Public Funding For Innovation On Firms~ R&D Investments: Do R&D Cooperation And Appropriability Matter?
Oct 2009
This paper provides a theoretical and empirical framework to explore how public funding affects firms' R&D investments depending on their engagement in horizontal R&D co-operations and different...
Provided by University of Pisa
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Productivity Effects Of Innovation Modes
Nov 2009
Many empirical studies have confirmed the positive impact of innovation on productivity at the firm level. The focus tends to be either on R&D driven technological innovation on the one hand, or...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Webcasts
American Business: Trial & Error
Feb 2011
Most entrepreneurs do their best to avoid small business blunders, but not all missteps are bad ones. Sometimes, you can learn valuable lessons. In fact, one business owner and her team are making...
Provided by American Express Company
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White Papers
Exporting And Product Innovation At The Firm Level
Nov 2008
Past research showed that exporters perform better than non-exporters in several domains, micro-level empirical evidence on the innovation enhancing effect of export is, however, very scant. In...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Entrepreneurship, Innovation And Spatial Disparities: Divisions And Changes Of Self-employment And Firms
Dec 2009
Topic of the paper is the development of professional self-employment during the last decades in Germany. The discussion is divided into a theoretical and an empirical section. The first...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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How Innovation Intermediaries Are Shaping The Technology Market? An Analysis Of Their Business Model
Nov 2010
In an era with abundant and widely distributed knowledge across the globe, technology markets became prominent. As technology transactions suffer from several market imperfections, a rapidly...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Trade Costs, Openness And Productivity: Market Access At Home And Abroad
Mar 2010
This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts from the heterogeneous firms literature suggests that firms face market entry...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Do Best And Worst Innovative Companies Differ In Terms Of Intellectual Capital, Knowledge And Radicalness?
Jan 2011
This paper differentiates "Best innovative companies" from "Worst innovative companies" and it takes into account three separate bodies of literature - intellectual capital, knowledge-based view,...
Provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Social Capital And Knowledge In Interorganizational Networks: Their Joint Effect On Innovation
Oct 2009
This research analyzes the effects of interorganizational links on innovation using a comprehensive framework that integrates three research streams: social capital, knowledge based view and...
Provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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The Role Of Entrepreneurial Culture And Human Capital In Innovation
Jun 2009
The objective of the present paper is to analyze the role played by the entrepreneurial culture of the organization and the value and uniqueness of employees' knowledge (human capital) in...
Provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Environmental Innovation, War Of Attrition And Investment Grants
Sep 2007
The paper analyses the timing of spontaneous environmental innovation when second-mover advantages, arising from the expectation of declining investment costs, increase the option value of waiting...
Provided by University of Padova
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White Papers
Sequential Innovations With Unobservable Follow-On Investments
Feb 2008
The authors consider a cumulative innovation process in which a follow-on innovator invests in R&D activities that influence both the expected commercial value of the innovation as well as the...
Provided by University of Padova
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White Papers
ICT And Innovation Processes In SMES Inside And Outside Districts
Jun 2009
Literature on industrial districts described the district model as an integrated local system of SMEs where learning-by-doing characterizes innovation, rooted in local contexts and...
Provided by University of Padova
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Webcasts
2009 Ten Years Hence: Patrick Mulva
Feb 2009
Patrick T. Mulva is vice president and controller of ExxonMobil Corp. in Irving, Texas. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM, Data Privacy Challenges and Solutions
Apr 2010
Data Privacy, Data Protection and Trans-border Data Flow are critical issues for Human Resources organizations operating in a Global Environment. Read this whitepaper to see how PeopleSoft is...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Oracle E-Business Suite HCM: Data Privacy Challenges and Solutions
Apr 2010
Data Privacy, Data Protection and Trans-border Data Flow are critical issues for Human Resources organizations operating in a Global Environment. Read this whitepaper to see how Oracle is...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
How Small Business Owners Can Go Green And Save Green
Aug 2010
It's all the rage to talk about green cities, green businesses, and green policies. It makes sense in the big picture to take care of the planet we're on. But what does "Going green" really mean...
Provided by www.Bestmanagementarticles.com
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Whitepapers
Beyond Virtualization: Building a Long Term Information Systems Strategic Plan
Oct 2010
Paper written by Clabby Analytics discussing the benefits of a big-picture IT optimization plan that includes consolidation, virtualization, workload management, automated process flow and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The System x X5 Difference IBM Innovation on Industry Standard Servers
Oct 2010
For years, Industry Standard Servers have benefited organizations, but those days are over. This white paper shows how IBM eX5 systems allow organizations to combine the full advantages of Intel's...
Provided by IBM
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Podcasts
Inside The Mind Of A Reluctant Entrepreneur
May 2009
Numenta's Jeff Hawkins, a frequent company founder, inventor, and product designer for Palm and Handspring, highlights lessons learned during his tenure in technology. He also confesses that these...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Anyone Can Be An Entrepreneur
Nov 2009
Artists Quincy Jones III and Chamilionaire discuss the myriad ways that online media and technology have leveled the playing field for "e-hustling", or the pursuit of entrepreneurship. Jones...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Changing The World through Innovation
Nov 2009
Stanford President John Hennessy kicks off the 2009 Global Innovation Tournament by challenging students to solve the world's major problems through innovation.
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
New Opportunities In Search Engine Technology
Nov 2008
When Alta Vista launched, it indexed about 50 percent of the Web. Years later, Google launched at the same capacity. But the opportunity today in search engine technology, says Cuil co-founder...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Great Ideas Derive From Well-Rested Minds
Jan 2010
Being a workaholic is no guarantee of success. David Heinemeier Hansson points out that 37signals' main product, Basecamp, was created on 10 hours a week of development for a total of six months....
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Classroom Experiments In Entrepreneurship
May 2009
If you had five dollars and two hours, what would you do to make as much money as possible? In this webcast, STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig recalls a classroom exercise in creative thinking...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Entrepreneurship Is A State Of Mind
Apr 2008
Being an entrepreneur is more than just starting a business, says Shutterfly CEO and dot-com veteran Jeff Housenbold. Entrepreneurial thinking involves an innovative mindset to create new...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Responsible Engineering In The Modern Age (Entire Talk)
Oct 2009
Whereas the 20th century belonged to the scientist, the 21st century, says Sun Micosystems' CTO Greg Papadopoulos, is the domain of the engineer. Rather than secretly toiling away on new...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Evangelizing For The Lean Startup (Entire Talk)
Sep 2009
Speaker, author, and entrepreneur Eric Ries shares rapid fire wisdom on building nimble, responsive, and efficient online software-based businesses. He also offers his wisdom on streamlining...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Google.org's Five Core Initiatives
May 2008
After a mock trial session to whittle down the most critical causes from an applicant pool of 10,000, Google.org chose just five areas of concentration: renewable energy, plug-in vehicles,...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Field Observations With Fresh Eyes
Nov 2008
Design firm IDEO's General Manager Tom Kelley shares a case study that demonstrates the value opportunities that can arise when designers, innovators, and entrepreneurs see with fresh eyes. He...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Using Your Whole Brain
Nov 2008
Fine tune your left brain, but don't overlook the opportunities to let your right brain make its mark. Tom Kelley, General Manager of IDEO, also discusses the use of the "Hare" brain, meaning the...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Innovation Made Personal
Nov 2008
Tom Kelley, the highly acclaimed general manager of IDEO and author of best-selling books on creativity, targets his thoughts on corporate creativity to the inexperienced student - and how the...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Vision Versus Perspective
Apr 2009
Everyone has a perspective, says Jensen Huang, but to call it a "Vision" implies elitism and exclusion. This NVIDIA Co-founder insists that those with a new idea for business approach the world...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Creative Direct Marketing
Apr 2008
While at EBay, Jeff Housenbold, now the CEO of Shutterfly, managed to enroll 65,000 new subscribers a day, and shepherded the company toward being the first to use Google's Adwords. In the...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
The Five Whys
Sep 2009
Understand and question deeply the root causes - i.e. the "Human problems" - behind every technical mishap, else your startup will be hindered in its progress. So advises entrepreneur and author...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Cultivating An Attitude Of Wisdom
Nov 2008
Be confident in what you know well, but be distrusting enough of what you don't know to keep yourself learning more at all times. This axiom will keep life-long learners of innovation thirsting to...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Fail Fast And Frequently
May 2009
What's the secret sauce of Silicon Valley? Failure, reports Tina Seelig, Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. To develop more successes, she urges, entrepreneurs have...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Problem-Solving Paradigm
Oct 2008
Take a big problem, apply the best minds to its prospects, add the fuel of entrepreneurial energy and a touch of capitalist greed, and one has the perfect recipe for solving any social,...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
The Power Of A Mission
Feb 2008
If you're seeking inspiration, you will find it by attending this webcast from Humane Society Silicon Valley's President, Christine Benninger. She describes the organization as she inherited it as...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Risk Is A Necessity For Exploration And Growth
Apr 2008
Historically, thousands of people have given their lives to explore new frontiers on land and sea. And space entrepreneur and X PRIZE founder Peter Diamandis deeply believes that the world today...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Factors That Impact Innovation
Oct 2008
Leadership, funding, policy, education, and culture are all concepts that leaders should keep in mind when trying to foster innovation in any organization. Judy Estrin, CEO of JLABS, breaks down...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Favoring Moore's Law Over Customer Feedback
Apr 2009
NVIDIA started as the first consumer 3D graphics company in 1993 and met over 200 competitors in a few years, reports its co-founder Jensen Huang. Yet today the company is the only remaining...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Three Types Of Innovation
Oct 2008
JLABS' CEO Judy Estrin breaks down innovation into three varieties. First, there's incremental innovation, which is a significant improvement on an existing tool (such as the shift into Web 2.0)....
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Don't Take Innovation For Granted
Oct 2008
Not only does innovation drive the economy, says Judy Estrin, CEO of JLABS, but it influences the very quality of our day-to-day life, and it is the only way to meet all of our national and global...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Running A Print Business In A Paperless World
Apr 2008
Why print photos when the blog is king? And who prints photos in the age of digital cameras? Shutterfly CEO Jeff Housenbold explains how an old-fashioned business like photo printing is surviving...
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Make It Personal And Make It Work
Apr 2009
Connecting community and making information accessible are the two overarching threads that run through some of the most successful companies of the last century, points out Facebook COO Sheryl...
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Case Studies Of Failure
May 2009
After designing about a dozen computer products, Numenta's Jeff Hawkins recalls that two - among them the Palm Pilot - were very successful, half were good, and the remaining were market failures....
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Shaping The Future With Entrepreneurship
Oct 2008
Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, predicted that the emergence of free long distance phone calls would be free, and that the large telecoms' reliance on those profits would make them fall...
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What Is Low-Carbon Investing?
Jan 2008
MissionPoint Capital Partners co-founder Jesse Fink explains what it means to merge clean energy and environmental finance, including cap and trade and other infrastructure supports, that helps...
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The Benefits Of Constructive Failure
Oct 2008
Nobody wants to fail, but we need to be willing to take that plunge - and self-analyze to learn from our failures, says JLABS CEO Judy Estrin. If not given the opportunity to fall short of new...
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Implementing Ideas Into Practice
Feb 2008
A good idea is a start, but sometimes an entire market has to be created for both the common good and for a new product's longevity. In this webcast, InCube Labs CEO Mir Imran, an established...
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Take A Chance At The Edge Of Innovation
Feb 2009
Universities and research labs force people to live on the edge of technology, says John Hennessy, President of Stanford University. And this exploration, he points out, helps them to uncover that...
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Historical And Global Change Through Clean Technology
May 2009
With the long-term health of the planet at risk and the history of alternative energies in the making, Steve Westly, former CFO for the state of California and founder of VC firm The Westly Group,...
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