Investments And Innovation

Author : Lewis M. Branscomb,James H. Keller
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262522675

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Investing in Innovation by Lewis M. Branscomb,James H. Keller Pdf

Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry. The authors of this volume were invited by the Clinton administration to take a hard, nonpartisan look at how successful the new policies have been and to propose ways to make their programs more effective. The first summary report of the team's recommendations was called the "hottest technology policy property on Capitol Hill."This book, an expansion of that report, offers a new set of technology policy principles. The authors use the principles to evaluate many federal research programs and to make recommendations for change. This volume will set the terms of the debate over the national research and innovation policy for years to come.

Author : Clayton M. Christensen,Stephen P. Kaufman,Willy C. Shih
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633691308

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Innovation Killers by Clayton M. Christensen,Stephen P. Kaufman,Willy C. Shih Pdf

In this seminal article, innovation experts Clayton Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih explore the key reasons why companies struggle to innovate. The authors uncover common mistakes companies make—from focusing on the wrong customers to choosing the wrong products to develop—that can derail innovation efforts, and offer a better way forward for management teams who want to avoid these obstacles and get innovation right. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Author : Andrew Metrick,Ayako Yasuda
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119490111

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Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation by Andrew Metrick,Ayako Yasuda Pdf

An invaluable resource for current and aspiring technology investors, Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation provides an in-depth understanding of the tools and models needed to succeed in this competitive and highly fluid business environment. Building on a comprehensive introduction to fundamental financial and investment principles, the text guides the reader toward a robust skill set using enterprise valuation and preferred stock valuation models, risk and reward, strategic finance, and other concepts central to any venture capital and growth equity investment. Two features of the book stand out from other sources on the subject. First, it pays special attention to the enterprise valuation methodology for high-growth companies. What drives the value of a company that has little physical assets, losing money now but has a small chance of achieving great success in several years? How do you create estimates for sales, profit and return on capital when little data is available? The book answers these questions using a discounted cash flow model that is tailor-made for technology companies (DCF.xlsx downloadable from the instructor website), and the comparables model. Second, it highlights the most valuation-relevant feature of VC term sheets, namely the use of convertible preferred stock. The book shows the reader how to use a user-friendly and automated valuation model of VC preferred stock (available at www.vcvtools.com) to value various types of preferred stock and to visualize how term sheets split the values of the firm between entrepreneurs and VCs. Accessible, comprehensive, and assuming only basic knowledge of venture capital, this text offers essential guidance for successful VC and growth equity investing in any market.

Author : Charles Frederick Carter,Bruce Rodda Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Capital investments
ISBN : 0356034879

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Investment in Innovation by Charles Frederick Carter,Bruce Rodda Williams Pdf

Author : Stephen A. Devaux
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781482212723

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Managing Projects as Investments by Stephen A. Devaux Pdf

Due to a lack of appreciation of the true economic identity of projects, techniques and metrics that could hugely improve project selection and performance are not being used. This book provides insights and innovative techniques drawn from more than a quarter century of experience. These techniques have the potential to transform program and project management from the current haphazard application of various techniques and metrics to an incisive and integrated approach where programs and projects are managed for the crucial economic and financial implications that are at the essence of every project investment.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264104815

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Attractiveness for Innovation Location Factors for International Investment by OECD Pdf

This report analyses the current trends in international investment in innovation and the attractiveness policies already implemented. The book also explores in more detail the role of investment incentives that governments tend to give to international investors.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264193307

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Supporting Investment in Knowledge Capital, Growth and Innovation by OECD Pdf

This work shows that business investment in knowledge-based capital is a key to future productivity growth and living standards and sets out recommendations in the fields of: innovation; taxation; entrepreneurship and business development; corporate reporting; big data; competition and measurement.

Author : Patrick J.W. Egan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262037358

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Globalizing Innovation by Patrick J.W. Egan Pdf

The impact of host country institutions and policy on innovation by multinational firms in emerging economies. In the past, multinational firms have looked to developing countries as sources of raw materials, markets, or production efficiencies, but rarely as locations for innovation. Today, however, R&D facilities and other indicators of multinational-linked innovation are becoming more common in emerging economies. In this book, Patrick Egan investigates patterns of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries, considering the impact of host country institutions and policy on the innovative activities undertaken by multinational firms. He examines the uneven spread of innovation-intensive foreign direct investment and emerging sectoral distributions, then develops a number of arguments about the determinants of multinational innovation in developing countries. Firms are attracted by a country's supply of skilled labor and are often eager to innovate close to new markets; but, Egan finds, host country institutions and the configuration of the host country's investment policies have a strong impact on firm decisions and evolving country investment profiles. Egan uses econometric analysis to identify determinants of multinational innovation, and examines differences among state institutions as a key variable. He then offers a detailed case study, assessing Ireland's attempts to use foreign direct investment in innovation as a catalyst for development. While FDI is a potential vehicle for industrial upgrading, Egan cautions, it is neither necessary nor sufficient for development. Furthermore, innovation-intensive investments are not likely to develop linkages with local actors or otherwise embed themselves in host economies in the absence of active, discriminating policies channeled through coherent and coordinated institutions.

Author : Anthony Bartzokas,Sunil Mani
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845420642

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Financial Systems, Corporate Investment in Innovation, and Venture Capital by Anthony Bartzokas,Sunil Mani Pdf

"Financial Systems, Corporate Investment in Innovation, and Venture Capital is a text for scholars and students of the theory and practice of financing innovation. It will also be a source for governments, NGOs, financial institutions and multilateral agencies interested in the practicalities of promoting technology-based small and medium enterprises."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tim Bradshaw,Confederation of British Industry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Investments
ISBN : 0852016603

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Investment in Innovation by Tim Bradshaw,Confederation of British Industry Pdf

Author : Paolo Sironi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119227199

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FinTech Innovation by Paolo Sironi Pdf

A survival guide for the FinTech era of banking FinTech Innovation examines the rise of financial technology and its growing impact on the global banking industry. Wealth managers are standing at the epicenter of a tectonic shift, as the balance of power between offering and demand undergoes a dramatic upheaval. Regulators are pushing toward a 'constrained offering' norm while private clients and independent advisors demand a more proactive role; practitioners need examine this banking evolution in detail to understand the mechanisms at work. This book presents analysis of the current shift and offers clear insight into what happens when established economic interests collide with social transformation. Business models are changing in profound ways, and the impact reaches further than many expect; the democratization of banking is revolutionizing the wealth management industry toward more efficient and client-centric advisory processes, and keeping pace with these changes has become a survival skill for financial advisors around the world. Social media, big data analytics and digital technology are disrupting the banking industry, which many have taken for granted as set in stone. This book shatters that assumption by illustrating the massive changes already underway, and provides thought leader insight into the changes yet to come. Examine the depth and breadth of financial technology Learn how regulations are driving changing business models Discover why investors may become the price-makers Understand the forces at work behind the rise of FinTech Information asymmetry has dominated the banking industry for centuries, keeping the bank/investor liability neatly aligned—but this is changing, and understanding and preparing for the repercussions must be a top priority for wealth managers everywhere. Financial Innovation shows you where the bar is being re-set and gives you the insight you need to keep up.

Author : Alexandra Moritz,Joern H. Block,Stephan Golla,Arndt Werner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030176129

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Contemporary Developments in Entrepreneurial Finance by Alexandra Moritz,Joern H. Block,Stephan Golla,Arndt Werner Pdf

More extensive regulations, new technologies, and new means of communication have significantly changed the financing landscape for startups and small to medium-sized companies (SMEs). This volume provides a contemporary research-based overview of the latest trends in entrepreneurial finance and outlines expected future developments. Starting with the status quo in market regulations and the financing structure of SMEs, it addresses a broad range of new financing alternatives for innovative startups (e.g. business angel financing, venture capital and corporate venture capital), as well as recent social phenomena (e.g. crowdfunding and initial coin offerings (ICOs)). Incorporating qualitative, quantitative and mixed analytical methods, the book contributes to a better understanding of the financing world by reflecting both the researcher’s and the practitioner’s perspective.

Author : Michele Bagella
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351068260

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Finance, Investment and Innovation by Michele Bagella Pdf

This book provides a critical evaluation of the literature on finance, investment and innovation and proposes new research methods for evaluating the comparative performance of financial systems in supporting innovation. The comparative advantage of this book is that of being directly focused on one of the main unsolved issues in monetary and financial economics: the relative effectiveness of national financial systems in supporting innovation. It proposes various theoretical and empirical contributions that, taken together, allow to evaluate the relative effectiveness of some of the most important country systems such as Japan, and the UK and Italy.

Author : Austan Goolsbee,Benjamin F. Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226805450

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Innovation and Public Policy by Austan Goolsbee,Benjamin F. Jones Pdf

A calculation of the social returns to innovation /Benjamin F. Jones and Lawrence H. Summers --Innovation and human capital policy /John Van Reenen --Immigration policy levers for US innovation and start-ups /Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr --Scientific grant funding /Pierre Azoulay and Danielle Li --Tax policy for innovation /Bronwyn H. Hall --Taxation and innovation: what do we know? /Ufuk Akcigit and Stefanie Stantcheva --Government incentives for entrepreneurship /Josh Lerner.

Author : Ralph D Christy,Vicki L Bogan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814462372

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Financial Inclusion, Innovation, and Investments by Ralph D Christy,Vicki L Bogan Pdf

This book is a state-of-the-art discussion of what has succeeded (and failed) in the design and implementation of projects and institutions to assist the poor in developing country economies. In Africa especially, far too many people are still living under conditions of extreme poverty. The goal of the book is twofold: (1) to identify and assess the key processes through which markets affect the livelihoods of the rural poor; and (2) to propose micro- and macro-level policies and innovations to address the problems of inclusion that arise. Featuring contributions from leading scholars and professionals in the field, this volume is timely to all those involved in designing innovative institutions that transfer capital and technologies to low-income countries facing the challenges of poverty alleviation and economic development. Contents:How Can Financial Markets and Biotechnology Help the Rural Poor? (Ralph D Christy, Mark Wenner, Emelly Mutambatsere and Willene Johnson)Financial Markets and the Poor:Financial Development and Growth: What Role Can Foreign Capital Play? (Eswar Prasad, Ayhan Kose, Kenneth Rogoff and Shang-Jin Wei)The Securitization of Microloans (Vicki L Bogan)A Vision for Scaling Microfinance: More than Dollars and Smarts (Deborah Burand, Esq.)Innovations in Index Insurance for the Poor in Low-Income Countries (Jerry Skees)Biotechnology and the Poor:Overcoming Poverty Through Improved Agricultural Technology (Robert W Herdt)Agricultural Biotechnology in Latin America: Economic Benefits, Regional Capacity, and Policy Options (Greg Traxler)Biotechnology, Agriculture, and Food Security in Southern Africa: Strategic Policy Challenges and Opportunities (Steven Were Omamo and Klaus von Grebmer)Developing Country Options under TRIPS: Choices to Maximize Biotech Transfer (William Lesser and Deepthi Kolady)Foreign Direct Investment:What Matters to African Firms? The Relevance of Perceptions Data (Alan Gelb, Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah and Ginger Turner)Making the Most out of FDI in Africa (Norbert L W Wilson and Malick Diarrasouba) Readership: Students, researchers and academics in development economics; practitioners involved in poverty alleviation strategies and in transforming developing country economies. Keywords:Financial Markets;Biotechnology;PovertyKey Features:Highlights innovative institutions and strategies of improving access to capital and biotechnology for the poor, with a special focus on AfricaAddresses the global problem of poverty and economic development, and the role the market and technology can play in providing solutions to the problemIncludes contributions from leading academics and practitioners in the field