Chapter 1. Innovation and Commercialisation in Small Firms -- Chapter 2. Conceptual Foundations of the Book -- Chapter 3. The Decision to Innovate -- Chapter 4. Screening Opportunities -- Chapter 5. The Business Model and Innovation Strategy -- Chapter 6. Managing Uncertainty -- Chapter 7....

Part 1 Big Tree with Thick Trunk and its Fruits -- 1 Research Aim and Framework -- 2 Theoretical Background: General Purpose Technology, Pattern of Innovation, and Spin-out -- 3 Data -- 4 Technological Characteristics of Laser and Laser Diode -- Part 2 R&D and Market Competition of Laser Diodes...

1. Cultural entrepreneurship in society -- 2. From “Making Culture” to “Cultural Making”: Unpacking Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Cultural Entrepreneurship in Norway -- 3. Cultural Entrepreneurship and Disruptive Blockchain Applications in Vietnam: the Status quo and the Transition...

Chapter 1: Get into the Entrepreneurial Mindset -- Part 1: Five Lessons from Lean Startup Thinking -- Chapter 2: Start with the Customer in Mind -- Chapter 3: Define and Communicate Mission and Vision -- Chapter 4: Synthesize an Integrative Operating Model -- Chapter 5: Identify Metrics that...

1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Background to Design Thinking for new Business Contexts -- 1.3 Structure of Content -- 1.4 Using the Book: A Reader’s Guide -- 2 Evolution of the Relationship Between Design and Business Activities -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Design Thinking and...

Innovate or Die: Efficient Innovation Instead of Inefficient Start-up Thinking -- Efficient Innovation With the 5C Process -- The Innovation Machine: Efficient Innovation in Corporations -- The End Is Not Nigh. .

1. Social innovation. Origins, definitions, and main elements -- 2. Characteristics, types, and processes for the construction of social innovations -- 3. Generation of values by Social Innovations -- 4. Basics, characteristics, and differences of Social Entrepreneurship -- 5. Similarities and...