Stage Technology

Stage Technology

Author: Bruno Grösel

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-08-19

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 3111366960

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Whereas simple manual drives were often used in stage technology in the past, today highly specialized know-how is employed. Therefore, personnel must be trained accordingly. This training ranges from courses for craftsmen to higher education at technical colleges and universities. The book therefore appeals to the entire range of interested parties; only one chapter requires basic technical knowledge.


Making the Scene

Making the Scene

Author: Oscar G. Brockett

Publisher:

Published: 2010-02-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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A lively, beautifully illustrated history of theatrical stage design from ancient Greek times to the present, coauthored by the world's leading authority, Oscar G. Brockett.


Early-Stage Technologies

Early-Stage Technologies

Author: Richard Razgaitis

Publisher:

Published: 1999-10-08

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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Comprehensive coverage of the issues, methods, and art of valuing and pricing early-stage technologies To develop or not to develop; to license or not to license; what price will be a true reflection of the product's value from both the buyer's and seller's point of view? These questions are crucial to companies dependent on intellectual property-particularly technology companies, universities, and biotech companies. The risks associated with early-stage technology are high, and decisions must often be made years before any potential product will reach the market. In Early-Stage Technologies: Valuation and Pricing, Richard Razgaitis presents TR-R-A-DE(TM), a comprehensive approach to determining the future of new technologies based on technology rights, risk assignment, the art of deal-making, and deal economics. He considers the key components involved in a licensing transaction, offers a detailed presentation of six valuation methods for intellectual property, examines risk in both quantitative and qualitative terms, and explores the negotiation strategy and structuring of agreements that are the keys to the art of technology rights deal-making. Early-Stage Technologies is an indispensable tool for anyone involved in the development, valuation, and licensing of intellectual property, the most valuable resource and driving force of the information age.


Revolutionary Stagecraft

Revolutionary Stagecraft

Author: Tarryn Li-Min Chun

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2024-06-04

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0472903969

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Revolutionary Stagecraft draws on a rich corpus of literary, historical, and technical materials to reveal a deep entanglement among technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in modern China. This unique approach to Chinese theater history combines a close look at plays themselves, performance practices, technical theater details, and behind-the-scenes debates over “how to” make theater amid the political upheavals of China’s 20th century. The book begins at a pivotal moment in the 1920s—when Chinese theater artists began to import, use, and write about modern stage equipment—and ends in the 1980s when China's scientific and technological boom began. By examining iconic plays and performances from the perspective of the stage technologies involved, Tarryn Li-Min Chun provides a fresh perspective on their composition and staging. The chapters include stories on the challenges of creating imitation neon, rigging up a makeshift revolving stage, and representing a nuclear bomb detonating onstage. In thinking about theater through technicity, the author mines well-studied materials such as dramatic texts and performance reviews for hidden technical details and brings to light a number of previously untapped sources such as technical journals and manuals; set design renderings, lighting plots, and prop schematics; and stage technology how-to guides for amateur thespians. This approach focuses on material stage technologies, situating these objects equally in relation to their technical potential, their human use, and the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that influence them. In each of its case studies, Revolutionary Stagecraft reveals the complex and at times surprising ways in which Chinese theater artists and technicians of the 20th century envisioned and enacted their own revolutions through the materiality of the theater apparatus.


Indicating Value in Early-Stage Technology Venture Valuation

Indicating Value in Early-Stage Technology Venture Valuation

Author: Christoph Philipp Wessendorf

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-24

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 3658349441

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Fundraising for venture capital investments have continued to increase in recent years. One crucial step in the investment process is the valuation of the target company. Investors are faced with the great challenge of valuing a young venture without a corporate or financial history, a firm customer relationship or even a business model, while still taking into account the tremendous growth potential. Especially the valuation of technology companies is a difficult and often subjective process. Motivated by these considerations, this dissertation details a design science research project, which aims to develop an artifact that improves the indication of value in early-stage technology venture valuation while enabling operationalizable and fair valuation. This approach ensures a more meaningful valuation and better applicability to early-stage technology ventures compared to traditional methods while supporting the deliberate reduction of information asymmetries between entrepreneurs and investors. Firm-specific characteristics and practical applicability are taken into account.


Stage Management

Stage Management

Author: Lawrence Stern

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-09-04

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1317343905

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Revered as the authoritative resource for stage management, this text offers students a practical manual on how to stage manage in all theater environments. Rich with practical resources — checklists, diagrams, examples, forms and step-by-step directions — Stage Management eschews excessive discussion of philosophy and gets right to the essential materials and processes of putting on a production. In addition to sharing his own expertise, Stern has gathered practical advice from working stage managers of Broadway, off-Broadway, touring companies, regional, community, and 99-seat Equity waiver theaters.


State of Innovation

State of Innovation

Author: Fred L. Block

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1317251423

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The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has generated a fundamental re-evaluation of the free-market policies that have dominated American politics for three decades. State of Innovation brings together critical essays looking at the 'innovation industry' in the context of the current crisis. The book shows how government programs and policies have underpinned technological innovation in the US economy over the last four decades, despite the strength of 'free market' political rhetoric. The contributors provide new insights into where innovations come from and how governments can support a dynamic innovation economy as the US recovers from a profound economic crisis. State of Innovation outlines a 21st century policy paradigm that will foster cutting-edge innovation which remains accountable to the public.


Representing High Tech Companies

Representing High Tech Companies

Author: Gary M. Lawrence

Publisher: Law Journal Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 1434

ISBN-13: 9781588520852

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This book discusses financing and documenting joint ventures and early-stage strategic partnerships; devising workable nondisclosure agreements and managing an intellectual property portfolio.