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The everything store : Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon /

Brad Stone, Author | [S.l.] : Bantam Press | 2013

This book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Compared to tech's other elite innovators -- Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg -- Bezos is a private man.[...]

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Global clusters of innovation : entrepreneurial engines of economic growth around the world /

Jerome S. Engel, Editor | Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing | 2014

In the geography of the global economy, there are known 'hot spots' where new technologies germinate at an astounding rate and pools of capital, expertise and talent foster the development of new industries and new ways of doing business. These [...]

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Global innovation science handbook

Praveen Gupta, Editor ; Brett E. Trusko, Editor | [S.l.] : McGraw-Hill Companies | 2014

"Global Innovation Science Handbook" presents a proven approach for understanding and implementing innovation in any industry. The book covers: covers: " Preparing for innovation--establishing a framework and creating a culture for innovation Ke[...]

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Global marketing management : changes, new challenges, and strategies /

Kiefer Lee, Author ; S. Carter, Author | Oxford : Oxford University Press | 2012

Includes index.

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Global perspectives on technology transfer and commercialization : building innovative ecosystems

John S. Butler, Author ; David V. Gibson, Author | Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing | 2011

Technology transfer is a dynamic area of study that examines traditional topics such as intellectual property management, the management of risk, market identification, the role of public and private labs, and the role of universities.

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A guide to open innovation and crowdsourcing : expert tips and advice /

Paul Sloane, Author | [S.l.] : Kogan Page | 2011

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The hard thing about hard things : building a business when there are no easy answers

Ben Horowitz, Author | [S.l.] : Harper Business | 2014

"Horowitz tends to dispense management advice in a kind of one-two punch. First comes the self-deprecating quip about mismanagement and misery, delivered with a knowing grin and capped with a two-beat chuckle. But soon the smile will vanish, and[...]

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High tech start-up : the complete handbook for creating successful new high tech companies

John L. Nesheim, Author | New York : Free Press | 2000

This revised and updated edition of Nesheim's underground Silicon Valley bestseller incorporates twenty-three case studies of successful start-ups, including tables of wealth showing how much money founders and investors realized from each ventu[...]

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High-technology entrepreneurship

R. P. Oakey, Author | London : Routledge | 2012

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High-technology entrepreneurship

R. P. Oakey, Author | London : Routledge | 2012

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Hungry start-up strategy : creating new ventures with limited resources and unlimited vision /

Peter S. Cohan, Author | San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers | 2012

Cohan's strategic model focuses on six decision points where the strategy for small companies is radically different than that for large compenies: 1. Setting Goals, 2. Picking Markets, 3. Raising Capital, 4. Building Teams, 5. Gaining Market Sh[...]

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The industries of the future

Alec Ross, Author | [S.l.] : Simon & Schuster | 2016

"Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years--for businesses, governments, and the global community--and how we can navigate them. W[...]

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Innovation commons : the origin of economic growth /

Jason Potts, Author | New York, NY : Oxford University Press | 2019

Innovation is among the most important topics in understanding economic sustained economic growth. Jason Potts argues that the initial stages of innovation require cooperation under uncertainty and draws from insights on the solving of commons p[...]

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The innovator's dilemma : when new technologies cause great firms to fail

Clayton M. Christensen, Author | Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press | The management of innovation and change series | 2016

Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products "will" get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional busines[...]

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The innovator's DNA : mastering the five skills of disruptive innovators /

Jeff Dyer, Author ; Hal B. Gregersen, Author ; Clayton M. Christensen, Author | Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press | 2011

"In The Innovator's DNA, the authors identify five capabilities demonstrated by the best innovators: · Associating: drawing connections between questions, problems, or ideas from unrelated fields · Questioning: posing queries that challenge comm[...]

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The innovators : how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution /

Walter Isaacson, Author | [S.l.] : Simon & Schuster | 2014

"Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispens[...]

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The international business environment

Leslie Hamilton, Author ; Philip Webster, Author | Oxford : Oxford University Press | 2012

This book covers important features and new developments in the international environment in which companies are operating.

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How to kill a unicorn : how the world's hottest innovation factory builds bold ideas that make it to market /

Mark Payne, Author | New York : Crown Business | 2014

The president of innovation consultancy firm Fahrenheit 212 describes the company's methodology for combining "magic" with money to bring to market unique products and ideas that will transform a company's business and growth

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The lean startup : how constant innovation creates radically successful businesses

Eric Ries, Author | New York : Portfolio/Penguin | 2011

"Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody[...]

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The little black book of innovation : how it works, how to do it /

Scott D. Anthony, Author | Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press | 2017

In The Little Black Book of Innovation, long-time innovation expert Scott D. Anthony draws on stories from his research and field work with companies like Procter & Gamble to demystify innovation. Anthony presents a simple definition of innovati[...]

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Managing technology-based projects : tools, techniques, people and business processes /

Hans J. Thamhain, Author | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons | 2014

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Managing technology-based projects : tools, techniques, people and business processes /

Hans J. Thamhain, Author | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons | 2014

Written by well-known author and PMP Hans Thamhain, this professional reference and textbook provides management practitioners and students of project management with the latest concepts and tools for leading technology-oriented projects. It se[...]

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Minitrends : how innovators & entrepreneurs discover & profit from business & technology trends

John H. Vanston, Author ; Carrie Vanston, Author | Austin, Tex. : Technology Futures, Inc. | 2010

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The moral marketplace : how mission-driven millenials and social entrepreneurs are changing our world

Asheem Singh, Author | Bristol (UK) : Policy Press | 2018

Enter the world of the social entrepreneur. A global community of doers, thinkers and leaders who mix business with grass-roots activism to make social change possible. Vinod Kapur created a new breed of chicken that feeds some of the world's po[...]

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More awesome than money : four boys and their quest to save the world from Facebook /

Jim Dwyer, Author | [S.l.] : Viking | 2014

Ambitious Max, idealistic Ilya, brainiac coder Dan, and on-top-of-everything Rafi: four New York University undergraduates who dreamed of building a social network that would give users control of their own data instead of passing it on to Big B[...]

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