Small Business and Innovation

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 13 August 1978

• Author : Jay Mitra
• Publisher : Sage Publications Limited
• Release : 04 May 2017

Moving beyond the narrow confines of a "how to" of innovation management, The Business of Innovation takes a contemporary approach reflecting on the wider, external contexts in which management decisions are made.

• Author : Verena Bitzer,Ralph Hamann,Martin Hall,Eliada Wosu Griffin-EL
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 05 January 2015

In the face of limited progress toward meeting Millennium Development Goals or addressing climate change and resource degradation, increasing attention turns to harnessing the entrepreneurial, innovative, managerial and financial capacities of business for improved social and environmental outcomes. A more proactive role for business in sustainable development is especially pertinent in sub-Saharan Africa, which has been plagued by conflict and poverty but shows signs of a brighter future as the world’s second-fastest-growing region. The book considers how the socio-economic

• Author : Lotte Darsø
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 13 August 2022

• Author : Vincenzo Morabito
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 04 February 2014

This book describes the trends in digital innovation that are of most importance for businesses and explores the key challenges. The book is in three parts, the first of which focuses on developments in digital systems. Here, the ever-growing relevance of big data, cloud computing, and mobile services for business is discussed, and detailed consideration is given to the importance of social listening for understanding user behavior and needs and the implications of IT consumerization. In the second part, trends

• Author : Nicholas D. Evans
• Publisher : FT Press
• Release : 13 August 2022

Business Innovation and Disruptive Technology: Harnessing the Power of Breakthrough Technology for Competitive Advantage shows you how to profit from the next technological revolution. Nicholas D. Evans explains how to discover powerfully disruptive technologies more quickly, evaluate them more accurately, and implement them more profitably. He presents business-focused introductions to rapidly maturing technologies such as Web services, real-time computing, and P2P, then previews crucial trends like "software as a service," as well as next-generation technologies such as grid computing,

• Author : Michitaka Kosaka,Jie Wu,Ke Xing,Shiyong Zhang
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 09 September 2020

This book clarifies the direction of business innovation using new ICT such as the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), smartphones, and cloud computing through a series of case studies on successful trials and advanced businesses in the Asia-Pacific where many industry sectors have been growing successfully in the 21st century. ICT has been playing an important role in value creation for customers and in profit generation for providers, contributing to various service innovation and business innovation. Now, digitalization

• Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
• Publisher : The Stationery Office
• Release : 09 March 2010

Since 2000 the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (the Department) and its predecessors have invested public money, alongside private investors, in a series of funds managed by private sector fund managers. The funds provide support to small businesses unlikely to receive support from other sources. The programme currently comprises 28 funds. By December 2009 taxpayers had contributed £338 million, alongside £438 million from private investors. The Department's intervention in the venture capital market was experimental and risky, yet it did not set clear, prioritised

• Author : Vincenzo Morabito
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 05 March 2016

This book identifies and discusses the main challenges facing digital business innovation and the emerging trends and practices that will define its future. The book is divided into three sections covering trends in digital systems, digital management, and digital innovation. The opening chapters consider the issues associated with machine intelligence, wearable technology, digital currencies, and distributed ledgers as their relevance for business grows. Furthermore, the strategic role of data visualization and trends in digital security are extensively discussed. The subsequent

• Author : Alexander Hiam
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 01 June 2010

Discover how to access your creative power to boost your success in business Success in business demands constant creativity. Generating fresh solutions to problems and the ability to invent new products or services for a changing market are part of the intellectual capital that gives a company its competitive edge. Business Innovation For Dummies gives you practical, easy-to-follow information for generating new ideas, using creativity to boost sales, solving problems creatively, mastering the art of invention, honing creative thinking skills,

• Author : Jonathan Reuvid
• Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
• Release : 31 October 2017

Growing Business Innovation takes directors and corporate officers of success-driven businesses with defined innovation objectives on the journey from research to marketable product, to creating, managing and onwards to marketing and monetisation of their innovation’s IP.

• Author : A. Romano
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 08 April 2009

Within a complex environment, change is endemic to survival and the dynamic capability to continuously learn becomes a critical success factor. In this perspective, this book offers guidance for value creation and for the development of intellectual capital within networks of individuals and organizations.

• Author : National Research Council,Technology and Economic Policy,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
• Publisher : National Academies Press
• Release : 22 November 1999

Small businesses have increasingly been recognized as a source of innovation, and one way in which the Federal government encourages such innovation is through the Small Business Innovation Research program. SBIR sets aside 2.5 percent of federal agencies' R&D budgets for R&D grants to small business. Although the program's budget was nearly $1.2 billion in 1998, SBIR has been subject to relatively little outside review. As part of the STEP's ongoing project on Government-Industry Partnerships, the Board convened policymakers, academic researchers,

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on General Oversight and the Economy
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 13 August 1986

• Author : Roger BEAN,Russell RADFORD
• Publisher : AMACOM
• Release : 16 October 2001

This is a guide to building innovative, creativity-rich organizations through astute and skillful management. Whatever the end goal, this book provides a systematic process for managing focused, usable innovation - without the micro-managing that can stifle creativity. With examples from McDonald's, Toyota, Palm (Pilot), 3M, Sony, Singapore Airlines and others, this model helps managers and executives: nurture an environment of innovation; support market-focused innovation through effective policies; gather expert feedback to properly evaluate innovations; develop and launch innovations successfully; and