Change to Success

Change to Success
Author: Rosalba Badillo-Vega
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3830983190

In a world where innovation is considered to be a key driver for a new economy, Higher Education Institutions (HEI) can play a pivotal role. With this understanding, HEI in Latin America, have become significantly more entrepreneurial over the last decades in order to perform their 'third mission' - provide a greater benefit to society. UniTransfer, the project that gives birth to this book, emerges as a response to a better understanding of the nature of knowledge and technology transfer (KTT), presenting interesting alternative approaches to KTT such as; 'Science-to-business marketing', 'Partnering approaches for knowledge transfer' and 'Academic Entrepreneurship'; further it offers tools and proposes actions to implement change from within the structures of HEIs in Central America and Mexico. This publication portrays the projects developed by the participants from UniTransfer - Executive Training Course. Each chapter constitutes an approach and a good practice that can be further consulted by any other academic institution in a similar context striving for change to success. Moreover, the projects developed from each participant illustrate the specific profiles, visions and missions, as well as organisational and governance frameworks that the new leadership in higher education needs to embrace if it ought to fulfil its new entrepreneurial role beyond the traditional boundaries of the HEI. 'The UniTransfer Executive Training Course at Münster University of Applied Sciences, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica and Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, helped me to think in markets and beyond my own institution and role as an academic. The visits to the technology parks and to the transfer agencies in Münster, San José and Pachuca helped me to bring new models to be adapted to our region.' José Luis Antón de la Concha, Vice rector of Research, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, México 'After UniTransfer I realize that university-business linkages can make a great contribution to the development of our countries and societies. Sharing different points of views and experiences has been beneficial for new knowledge acquisition and invaluable friendship from Costa Rica, Mexico, Germany, Spain and Australia. Thank you all!' Marcelino Antonio Castro-Baltodano, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniaría, Nicaragua

Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training

Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training
Author: Carvalho, Luísa Cagica
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2019-03-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522576762

Entrepreneurship education has gained considerable interest in the last decade, both in the political and academic arenas, because it fosters innovation and plays a crucial role in developing the business landscape. However, instructors are faced with challenges related to creating successful learning objectives, suitable methodologies, and measuring the impact of these programs. Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training provides an interdisciplinary approach to foster and support entrepreneurship and the development of entrepreneurial competences in students. Providing insights from developed and developing countries, it features coverage on a broad range of topics such as learning environments, blended learning approaches, learning methodologies, and teacher education. This book is ideally designed for academics, university teachers, researchers, post-graduate students, and developers and researchers.

The Lean Startup

The Lean Startup
Author: Eric Ries
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0307887898

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business. The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs—in companies of all sizes—a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.

Yo también puedo emprender

Yo también puedo emprender
Author: Pablo Claver
Publisher: Editorial Almuzara
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2013
Genre: Career development
ISBN: 8483568470

Emprender no es sólo cosa de Steve Jobs, Amancio Ortega o Bill Gates. Tampoco es algo exclusivo de quienes quieren crear la empresa más innovadora, la que más rápido crezca, la que nazca con un enorme respaldo financiero detrás. Es algo al alcance de cualquier persona «normal y corriente», como se define el autor de este libro. Pablo Claver, después de numerosos éxitos empresariales y más de un fracaso, ha creado un libro pensado para todos aquellos que tienen una idea y no saben si llevarla a cabo o cómo hacerlo. También está escrito para quienes quieren buscar una alternativa real a su situación de desempleo y les falta un último empujón. Sin tecnicismos y con una gran dosis de realismo, este emprendedor que ha creado empresas en Europa, África y Latinoamérica explica paso a paso y de la forma más sencilla posible todos los detalles que el futuro empresario debe tener en cuenta: desde cómo poner en marcha la idea sin tener dinero hasta cómo diseñar el plan de negocio, pasando por la gestión del equipo, cómo conseguir las primeras ventas, la importancia de cuidar a cada cliente, cómo llevar las cuentas, cómo hacer crecer la empresa e, incluso, cómo venderla si llega el momento. Todo descrito con numerosos ejemplos que ilustran cada una de sus recomendaciones.

The Book of Daniel

The Book of Daniel
Author: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2010-11-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307762955

The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life—marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him. In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. It is a confession of his most intimate relationships—with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents’ innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House. It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel’s interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks. It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case—lawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself. It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country—its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations. It is The Book of Daniel.

Brands that Dream

Brands that Dream
Author: Xavier Oliver Conti
Publisher: Libros de Cabecera
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2014-10-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8494239775

IKEA, El Bulli, Apple, Bausch & Lomb, Coca-Cola... These are just a few of the brands that have “got it.” Every company that really stands out has this “certain something” in common. That being said, talking about something that does not have a name is tantamount to allowing that it may not exist. For this reason, the authors have named it; they call it a dream.Today, a company can only truly stand out if it has a dream – a shared dream with the capacity to touch us all. The potential of a dream has no limits, and any brand – as small as it may be – can stand out by chasing its dream. A dream can be found behind any activity, as mundane as it may seem. Through success stories that provide excellent opportunities for learning, the authors help us to uncover and communicate our dream and to share it with everyone who, in one way or another, comes into contact with our company. Today, a company can only truly stand out if it has a dream – a shared dream with the capacity to touch us all. The potential of a dream has no limits, and any brand – as small as it may be – can stand out by chasing its dream. A dream can be found behind any activity, as mundane as it may seem. Through success stories that provide excellent opportunities for learning, the authors help us to uncover and communicate our dream and to share it with everyone who, in one way or another, comes into contact with our company.

Sustaining Change in Universities

Sustaining Change in Universities
Author: Burton R. Clark
Publisher: Open University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Educational change
ISBN: 9780335215911

In this work, Burton R. Clark uses case studies from 14 innovative institutions to propose a new conceptual framework offering original insights into ways of initiating and sustaining change in universities.

Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics

Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics
Author: Andrea Giunta
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2007-07-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 082238969X

The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new, cutting-edge Argentine art. A bestseller in Argentina, Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics is an examination of the 1960s as a brief historical moment when artists, institutions, and critics joined to promote an international identity for Argentina’s visual arts. The renowned Argentine art historian and critic Andrea Giunta analyzes projects specifically designed to internationalize Argentina’s art and avant-garde during the 1960s: the importation of exhibitions of contemporary international art, the sending of Argentine artists abroad to study, the organization of prize competitions involving prestigious international art critics, and the export of exhibitions of Argentine art to Europe and the United States. She looks at the conditions that made these projects possible—not least the Alliance for Progress, a U.S. program of “exchange” and “cooperation” meant to prevent the spread of communism through Latin America in the wake of the Cuban Revolution—as well as the strategies formulated to promote them. She describes the influence of Romero Brest, prominent art critic, supporter of abstract art, and director of the Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Tocuato Di Tella (an experimental art center in Buenos Aires); various group programs such as Nueva Figuración and Arte Destructivo; and individual artists including Antonio Berni, Alberto Greco, León Ferrari, Marta Minujin, and Luis Felipe Noé. Giunta’s rich narrative illuminates the contentious postwar relationships between art and politics, Latin America and the United States, and local identity and global recognition.

Farmer Giles of Ham

Farmer Giles of Ham
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher:
Total Pages: 79
Release: 1991-12-12
Genre: Dragons
ISBN: 9780261102088

Eventyr med kæmper og drager, store rigdomme, en snu bonde og en ikke alt for sympatisk konge.

Pima Bajo

Pima Bajo
Author: Zarina Estrada Fernández
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1996
Genre: Pima Bajo language
ISBN: