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Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: This paper evaluates how corporate venture capital investment can contribute to sustaining the competitiveness of large high technology concerns. In the first section the author sets the framework by explaining terminology in the context of technolgy and innovation as well as the market for technology companies. In addition, general issues regarding technology companies and their market environment are discussed. To obtain a means of evaluation, then issue of competitiveness of high technology concerns in the current market situation is examined in general. Competitiveness is discussed and explained by reviewing a substantial amout of literature along a framework developed by Feurer and Chaharbaghi. The chapter culminates in developing an approach to sustaining competitiveness for high technology concerns. As the aspects that determine competitiveness cover a broad spectrum, this section is the main part of the paper. Once an approach to sustaining competitiveness has been developed the third and last part examines in which way the efforts of high technology concerns to sustain competitiveness are advanced by corporate venture capital investment. Essentially, the conclusions drawn do not negate the effect of corporate venture capital, but set a limited and consise scope for corporate venture capital investment. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: List of abbreviations5 List of figures6 List of tables7 A.Introduction and methodology8 B.Basics regarding technology and high technology concerns10 I.Definitions and characteristics of technology and the technology market10 1.Science and research10 2.Technology10 3.Technique13 4.Types of research14 5.Innovation14 6.The concept of core technology15 7.Technology S-curve and life-cycle16 8.Technology intensity19 9.Customers22 10.Technology companies24 11.The field of research management of technology 25 12.The scope of this paper26 II.Target firms and the high technology market26 1.Market trends27 2.Strengths and weaknesses of target firms when compared with other types of technology companies28 a.Weaknesses28 b.Strengths29 3.Window on technology29 4.New technologies and new markets32 C.Competitiveness33 I.Customer values34 1.Real option values for customers36 2.Competitive values38 II.Shareholder values40 1.Real option values for shareholders42 2.Relation of customer and shareholder values42 III.The ability to act and react and the dynamism [...]
Diploma Thesis from the year 1999 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1.7, Aachen University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: Diese Arbeit bewertet, wie Investition in Corporate Venture Capital zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von großen Technologiekonzernen beitragen kann. Im ersten Abschnitt setzt der Autor den Rahmen für die Begrifflichkeiten im Kontext von Technologie und Innovation sowie der Firmen im Technologiemarkt. Zusätzlich werden grundlegende Thematiken die Technologiefirmen und deren Markt diskutiert. Um einen Ansatz zur Bewertung zu bekommen wird im zweiten Kapitel die Thematik der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Technologiekonzernen in der aktuellen Marksituation untersucht. Wettbewerbsfähigkeit wird diskutiert und erklärt in dem eine größere Menge an Sekundärliteratur entlang eines Models, das von Feurer und Chaharbaghi entwickelt wurde, herangezogen und verarbeitet wird. Aus dieser Diskussion ergibt sich ein genereller Ansatz in bezug auf die Erhaltung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Technologiekonzernen. Da die Aspekte, die die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit beeinflussen ein breites Spektrum abdecken, macht das zweite Kapitel den größten Anteil der Arbeit aus. Nachdem ein Ansatz zur Erhaltung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit entwickelt wurde, wird im dritten und letzten Kapitel untersucht, wie die Bemühungen von Technologiekonzernen zur Erhaltung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit durch Investition in Corporate Venture Capital unterstützt werden. Generell kann man sagen, daß in den Schlußfolgerungen der Effekt von Corporate Venture Capital nicht verneint wird, aber das Wirkungsspektrum in einen klaren eingegrenzten Rahmen gesetzt wird.
“An incisive history of the venture-capital industry.” —New Yorker “An excellent and original economic history of venture capital.” —Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution “A detailed, fact-filled account of America’s most celebrated moneymen.” —New Republic “Extremely interesting, readable, and informative...Tom Nicholas tells you most everything you ever wanted to know about the history of venture capital, from the financing of the whaling industry to the present multibillion-dollar venture funds.” —Arthur Rock “In principle, venture capital is where the ordinarily conservative, cynical domain of big money touches dreamy, long-shot enterprise. In practice, it has become the distinguishing big-business engine of our time...[A] first-rate history.” —New Yorker VC tells the riveting story of how the venture capital industry arose from America’s longstanding identification with entrepreneurship and risk-taking. Whether the venture is a whaling voyage setting sail from New Bedford or the latest Silicon Valley startup, VC is a state of mind as much as a way of doing business, exemplified by an appetite for seeking extreme financial rewards, a tolerance for failure and experimentation, and a faith in the promise of innovation to generate new wealth. Tom Nicholas’s authoritative history takes us on a roller coaster of entrepreneurial successes and setbacks. It describes how iconic firms like Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia invested in Genentech and Apple even as it tells the larger story of VC’s birth and evolution, revealing along the way why venture capital is such a quintessentially American institution—one that has proven difficult to recreate elsewhere.
The slowdown of growth in Western industrialized nations in the last twenty years, along with the rise of Japan as a major economic and technological power (and enhanced technical sophistication of Taiwan, Korea, and other NICs) has led to what the authors believe to be a "techno-nationalism." This combines a strong belief that technological capabilities of a nation;s firms are a key source of their competitive process, with a belief that these capabilities are in a sense national, and can be built by national action. This book is about these national systems of technical innovation. The heart of the work contains studies of seventeen countries--from large market-oriented industrialized ones to several smaller high income ones, including a number of newly industrialized states as well. Clearly written, this work highlights institutions and mechanisms which support technical innovation, showing similarities, differences, and their sources across nations, making this work accessible to students as well as the scholars of innovation.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
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If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.