Innovation Equity

Innovation Equity

Author: Elie Ofek

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0226618293

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This text bridges the gap between what academics know and what innovation stakeholders- from managers, to investors, to analysts, to consumers-need to know about how new products and services are expected to perform in the marketplace.


OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society Volume 1 and Volume 2

OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society Volume 1 and Volume 2

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2008-09-16

Total Pages: 723

ISBN-13: 9264046534

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Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society provides a thorough international investigation of tertiary education policy across its many facets – governance, funding, quality assurance, equity, research and innovation, academic career, links to the labour market and internationalisation.


Redesigning Educational Leadership Preparation for Equity

Redesigning Educational Leadership Preparation for Equity

Author: Michelle D. Young

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1000453944

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Delivering equity for PK-12 learners is an essential aim for educational leadership preparation programs. This book serves as a resource for equity-focused design and redesign thorough innovation, improvement and impact. Based on direct experience while also drawing from innovative exemplars, and unpacking a decade of program improvement practice, this book explores how to foster partnerships and pipelines, recruit and select candidates, map the curriculum, develop powerful learning experiences, create field experiences, design program evaluation, and support faculty learning. Chapters open with a vignette that presents scenarios in which many faculty members find themselves, particularly when programs are in need of improvement. Drawing on years of experience facilitating redesign, the authors offer both processes and resources to assist faculty, including diagnostic tools, sample agendas, templates, guiding questions, and suggested protocols. Whether facing new accreditation requirements, state program approval changes, institutional redesign challenges or as part of a grant funded redesign, this book is a critical resource for educational leadership faculty and program coordinators looking to garner the appropriate resources, ask the right questions, and follow reliable processes in program design and continuous improvement toward equity. Chapter resources and templates available for download online at https://www.routledge.com/9780367673543 on the tab that is entitled "Support Material." Please also join Redesign.Improve.Innovate—an online forum focused on preparation and practice improvement found here: www.RedesignImproveInnovate.org.


Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation

Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation

Author: Andrew Metrick

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons

Published: 2011-06-15

Total Pages: 1153

ISBN-13: 1118137884

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This useful guide walks venture capitalists through the principles of finance and the financial models that underlie venture capital decisions. It presents a new unified treatment of investment decision making and mark-to-market valuation. The discussions of risk-return and cost-of-capital calculations have been updated with the latest information. The most current industry data is included to demonstrate large changes in venture capital investments since 1999. The coverage of the real-options methodology has also been streamlined and includes new connections to venture capital valuation. In addition, venture capitalists will find revised information on the reality-check valuation model to allow for greater flexibility in growth assumptions.


The Road to Universal Health Coverage

The Road to Universal Health Coverage

Author: Jeffrey L. Sturchio

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 142142956X

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Srinath Reddy, Yasmine Rouai, Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Cicely Thomas, Tana Wuliji, Snow Yang, Pascal Zurn


Corporate Finance, Innovation, and Strategic Competition

Corporate Finance, Innovation, and Strategic Competition

Author: Cornelia Neff

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 3642556906

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This book analyzes how corporate finance decisions influence strategic competition and innovation of firms in the product market. We consider bank loan financing and venture capital financing. Due to assymetric information, firms must sign special contracts with banks or venture capitalists. The financial contracts, in turn, determine the competitive strategies of firms in the product market. Firms compete in prices for market shares. In addition to that, firms invest in R&D in order to induce product or process innovation. We show that better access to financial resources improves a firm's market position and leads to a higher rate of innovation. Cash-rich firms may even decide to prey upon financially restricted rivals in order to prevent new market entry or to induce market exit.


Community Resilience

Community Resilience

Author: Alonzo L. Plough

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0197559387

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Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future presents a rich body of research findings, enlivened by stories of lived experience, to reflect on the current attitudes and policies that prevent health equity. It offers concrete action points for improving community resilience and potential pathways for more equitable public health research in the future.