Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era

Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era

Author: Matthew C.. Le Merle

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05-19

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780986161377

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The companies who have been most able to tap into new innovations have become the most highly valued companies in the world. To do so, they have created a new approach to corporate innovation. In this book, Silicon Valley insiders share the lessons they have learned from two decades of interaction with today's most valuable companies.


Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era

Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era

Author: Matthew C. Le Merle

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04-16

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780986161339

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The Internet didn't even exist 30 years ago, and now billions of people are connected to the web every day, and remarkable new technologies have been invented that will dramatically change the way humans exist on our planet. This emerging playing field is not well understood and not everyone who was successful in the past will be able to benefit from this momentous shift. In Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era, Silicon Valley insiders Matthew C. Le Merle and Alison Davis provide insights, based on 30 years of leading, investing in and advising new technology companies, on the rules of this game, and outline options for how readers can participate and prosper in the coming Fifth Era. In these pages, through plain language and inspiring stories, you'll: -Understand this Age of Unprecedented Change. A time of transition to a new age unlike anything we have experienced before -Discover the Greatest Wealth Creation Opportunity Ever. Every industry is being transformed and wealth is shifting to new disruptive players and those who back them -Explore 9 Options to Build Your Fortune. The nine options to build your fortune and prosper in an age of unprecedented innovation


The Intelligent Investor - Silicon Valley

The Intelligent Investor - Silicon Valley

Author: Alison Davis

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-28

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781950248148

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From the bestselling authors of The Fifth Era, Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era and Blockchain Competitive Advantage comes a new book full of practical wisdom for investors and entrepreneurs from 50 leading Silicon Valley angels and venture capitalistContributions from more than 50 of Silicon Valley's leading backers of early stage companies:· What they have learned about early stage investing· The secrets they wish they had known before they got started· The wisdom and advice they want to share with you.


Blockchain Competitive Advantage

Blockchain Competitive Advantage

Author: Alison Davis

Publisher: Fifth Era LLC

Published: 2019-04

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781950248032

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Blockchain is moving into a new competitive phase that requires a clearer future view and more focused strategies for competing. Whether you are an entrepreneur, investor, or established company, learn how to win the battle for blockchain competitive advantage.This book provides clear advice from two experts in strategy, technology investing and blockchain. In its pages the authors: Establish a vision of the future and the big issues that need to be solved Describe the enabling innovations and technologies that may be leveraged Show you how to develop your strategy--making sure you have a "way to play," that you understand the key success factors, and that you quickly secure a "right to win." In blockchain a few of the leaders have begun to do just this, and they are preparing now for a much more competitive game--which is coming fast.


3D Printing, Intellectual Property and Innovation

3D Printing, Intellectual Property and Innovation

Author: Rosa Maria Ballardini

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2016-04-24

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9041183833

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3D printing (or, more correctly, additive manufacturing) is the general term for those software-driven technologies that create physical objects by successive layering of materials. Due to recent advances in the quality of objects produced and to lower processing costs, the increasing dispersion and availability of these technologies have major implications not only for manufacturers and distributors but also for users and consumers, raising unprecedented challenges for intellectual property protection and enforcement. This is the first and only book to discuss 3D printing technology from a multidisciplinary perspective that encompasses law, economics, engineering, technology, and policy. Originating in a collaborative study spearheaded by the Hanken School of Economics, the Aalto University and the University of Helsinki in Finland and engaging an international consortium of legal, design and production engineering experts, with substantial contributions from industrial partners, the book fully exposes and examines the fundamental questions related to the nexus of intellectual property law, emerging technologies, 3D printing, business innovation, and policy issues. Twenty-five legal, technical, and business experts contribute sixteen peer-reviewed chapters, each focusing on a specific area, that collectively evaluate the tensions created by 3D printing technology in the context of the global economy. The topics covered include: • current and future business models for 3D printing applications; • intellectual property rights in 3D printing; • essential patents and technical standards in additive manufacturing; • patent and bioprinting; • private use and 3D printing; • copyright licences on the user-generated content (UGC) in 3D printing; • copyright implications of 3D scanning; and • non-traditional trademark infringement in the 3D printing context. Specific industrial applications – including aeronautics, automotive industries, construction equipment, toy and jewellery making, medical devices, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine – are all touched upon in the course of analyses. In a legal context, the central focus is on the technology’s implications for US and European intellectual property law, anchored in a comparison of relevant laws and cases in several legal systems. This work is a matchless resource for patent, copyright, and trademark attorneys and other corporate counsel, innovation economists, industrial designers and engineers, and academics and policymakers concerned with this complex topic.


VC

VC

Author: Tom Nicholas

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2019-06-03

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0674988000

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From nineteenth-century whaling to a multitude of firms pursuing entrepreneurial finance today, venture finance reflects a deep-seated tradition in the deployment of risk capital in the United States. Tom Nicholas’s history of the venture capital industry offers a roller coaster ride through America’s ongoing pursuit of financial gain.


Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era

Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era

Author: Matthew C Le Merle

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04-17

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780986161353

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The Internet didn't even exist 30 years ago, and now billions of people are connected to the web every day. New technologies are being invented that will dramatically change the way humans exist. The authors, Silicon Valley insiders, provide insights on the new rules of this game, and reveal how readers can prosper in the coming Fifth Era.


What Matters Now

What Matters Now

Author: Gary Hamel

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-01-04

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1118219082

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This is not a book about one thing. It's not a 250-page dissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it's an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes, relentless change and ferocious competition. This is not a book about doing better. It's not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins. Instead, it's an impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it—to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, organizational life, and the meaning of work. Leaders today confront a world where the unprecedented is the norm. Wherever one looks, one sees the exceptional and the extraordinary: Business newspapers decrying the state of capitalism. Once-innovative companies struggling to save off senescence. Next gen employees shunning blue chips for social start-ups. Corporate miscreants getting pilloried in the blogosphere. Entry barriers tumbling in what were once oligopolistic strongholds. Hundred year-old business models being rendered irrelevant overnight. Newbie organizations crowdsourcing their most creative work. National governments lurching towards bankruptcy. Investors angrily confronting greedy CEOs and complacent boards. Newly omnipotent customers eagerly wielding their power. Social media dramatically transforming the way human beings connect, learn and collaborate. Obviously, there are lots of things that matter now. But in a world of fractured certainties and battered trust, some things matter more than others. While the challenges facing organizations are limitless; leadership bandwidth isn't. That's why you have to be clear about what really matters now. What are the fundamental, make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead? Hamel identifies five issues are that are paramount: values, innovation, adaptability, passion and ideology. In doing so he presents an essential agenda for leaders everywhere who are eager to... move from defense to offense reverse the tide of commoditization defeat bureaucracy astonish their customers foster extraordinary contribution capture the moral high ground outrun change build a company that's truly fit for the future Concise and to the point, the book will inspire you to rethink your business, your company and how you lead.


The Fifth Wave

The Fifth Wave

Author: Michael M. Crow

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1421438038

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Out of the crises of American higher education emerges a new class of large-scale public universities designed to accelerate social change through broad access to world-class knowledge production and cutting-edge technological innovation. America's research universities lead the world in discovery, creativity, and innovation—but are captive to a set of design constraints that no longer aligns with the changing needs of society. Their commitment to discovery and innovation, which is carried out largely in isolation from the socioeconomic challenges faced by most Americans, threatens to impede the capacity of these institutions to contribute decisively and consistently to the collective good. The global preeminence of our leading institutions, moreover, does not correlate with overall excellence in American higher education. Sadly, admissions practices that flatly exclude the majority of academically qualified applicants are now the norm in our leading universities, both public and private. In The Fifth Wave, Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars argue that colleges and universities need to be comprehensively redesigned in order to educate millions more qualified students while leveraging the complementarities between discovery and accessibility. Building on the themes of their prior collaboration, Designing the New American University, this book examines the historical development of American higher education—the first four waves—and describes the emerging standard of institutions that will transform the field. What must emerge in this Fifth Wave of universities, Crow and Dabars posit, are institutions that are responsive to the needs of students, focused on access, embedded in their regions, and committed to solving global problems. The Fifth Wave in American higher education, Crow and Dabars write, comprises an emerging league of colleges and universities that aspires to accelerate positive social outcomes through the seamless integration of world-class knowledge production with cutting-edge technological innovation. This set of institutions is dedicated to the advancement of accessibility to the broadest possible demographic that is representative of the socioeconomic and intellectual diversity of our nation. Recognizing the fact that both cooperation and competition between universities is essential if higher education hopes to truly serve the needs of the nation, Fifth Wave schools like Arizona State University are already beginning to spearhead a network spanning academia, business and industry, government agencies and laboratories, and civil society organizations. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, including design, economics, public policy, organizational theory, science and technology studies, sociology, and even cognitive psychology and epistemology, The Fifth Wave is a must-read for anyone concerned with the future of higher education in our society.