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Start-up Made in Italy: un modello predittivo di exit a partire dagli indicatori di bilancio.
No full textDall'Innovazione alla Start-up - L'esperienza di imprenditori italiani in Italia e in California
No full text"The concept of Innovation is prevalent in so many studies, books and blogs as to. become, in some ways, a trite term. Some of these writings present a “recipe” for how. to make an innovative product, while others offer advice about how to expand a business. with an innovative idea, and still others focus their attention on some specific aspects. of this vast concept.. Nevertheless, a univocal description of the concept of innovation does not exist;. the only certainty is with regard to its importance. One of the many definitions that. could be representative is that given by Schumpeter, according to which innovation is. the introduction for the first time, into the economic or social system, of a new product,. process or system (Schumpeter J. A., 1911). This implies an entrepreneurial act. capable of passing an invention from the conceptual phase to concrete commercial. application. A business structure that supports such a transformation is therefore essential.. In this study, we will focus our attention precisely on the businesses that translate. an idea into “innovative businesses,” also known as “startups.”. The origins of this type of business can be found in the United States and, more. specifically, in California. South of San Francisco, in the area the entire world knows. as Silicon Valley, a unique and inimitable “entrepreneurial ecosystem” developed,. from which all countries today seek to draw ideas and inspiration.. This ecosystem is constituted of some distinctive elements such as: The presence of many big businesses.. The presence of universities, such as Berkeley and Stanford, that are. the principal sources of intellectual capital.. The presence of solid financial structures of venture capitalism, angel. investors and legal support.. The presence of consistent human capital coming from various countries. and the influence this has on the general cultural environment.. The culture of failure together with the presence of brilliant personalities. like Steve Jobs, Bill Hewlett and David Packard (to cite some of. the most famous), driven by a preeminent desire to create innovation.. In Italy, following the economic crisis of 2008, the boom of the ecosystem tied to. innovative startups could be explained by the desire for recovery and development.. The research project (carried out over approximately one year) from which this. work arises was born following studies performed at the University of California,. Berkeley. During that period, the research conducted in the area allowed for the indepth. analysis of the Californian situation and the understanding of the dynamics that. are at play this entrepreneurial ecosystem.. The objective was to analyze all of the key variables existing between startups. created by Italians, in Italy and in Silicon Valley, to then note any commonalities and. differences that may exist (not only cultural and in the ecosystem but also in the business. models used).. Although the two ecosystems (Italian and Californian) are not comparable, it was. still possible to research and compare the reasons for which Italians choose to build. their businesses in Italy or in California. The entire research project was developed. from this starting point, based on which the results will be presented in this work.. More specifically, the work is divided into five chapters, together with a preface. by Prof. Alberto Onetti and a presentation of the work.. The first chapter aims to explain the historic developments of the concept of innovation. in economic and managerial literature, in order to understand the determinants. that are at the core of the innovative businesses that drive startups.. The second chapter provides the definition of startups and describes the organizational. models, their life cycles and the players that participate in the same, specifically. those who are not part of the traditional ecosystems such as advisors and mentors, the. role played by business incubators and accelerators and the characteristics of backers. such as angel investors and venture capitalists.. The third chapter concentrates on the historic development of the Californian and. Italian ecosystems. The same concludes with a map that traces, based on the life cycle. of the startup, the general trends related to the profile of the innovative businesses. and the players who comprise them.. In the fourth chapter, the empirical analysis and the results obtained are presented.. The sample considered is comprised of 52 startups, 22 created by Italians with at least. one branch in the United States, and 30 created by Italians in Italy. Through the use. of a questionnaire, it was possible to better understand the various determinants, from. general information characterizing the startupper and business to past experiences. from the incubation factors to the investment and location factors that drive Italian. startups, both in Silicon Valley and in Italy.. To supplement the questionnaire, interviews were also conducted on part of the. sample to better understand the specific situations of the startups and to collect various. opinions regarding the strong and weak points of doing business in Italy and in. Silicon Valley.. Finally, the fifth chapter presents a critical analysis of the results of the research. project and the conclusions of the authors. To provide further opportunities to inspire. the reflections of the readers, the chapter also relates opinions on the theme, “Startups. and the Future of Italy” by some of the principal players of the Italian startup scene,. such as: Riccardo Luna, Augusto Coppola, Stefano Bernardi and Niccolò Sanarico.. The volume offers a representation of the economic panorama concerning the new. entrepreneurial ecosystem, which is gradually becoming stabilized through the establishment. of new businesses identifiable as startups.. The objective of the authors was to describe, in a balanced way, the important and. varied aspects of innovation, emphasizing both the particular elements of the scientific. debate and the methods with which, on the various international markets, the. theoretic concepts were transformed into competitive advantage for existing companies. and in new best practices for newly established businesses.. The text is addressed primarily to experts in the sector and to those who work in. the field of startups, such as consultants, managers and entrepreneurs, but does not. exclude those who would simply like to deepen their knowledge or acquire new skills,. with the ultimate goal of encouraging reflection about the subject.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Business model configuration and dynamics for technology commercialization in mature markets.
Full text linkPurpose
The food industry is a well-established and complex industry. New entrants attempting to penetrate it via the commercialization of a new technological innovation could face high uncertainty and constraints. The capability to innovate through collaboration and to identify suitable strategies and innovative business models (BMs) can be particularly important for bringing a technological innovation to this market. However, although the potential for these capabilities has been advocated, we still lack a complete understanding of how new ventures could support the technology commercialization process via the development of BMs. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
To address this gap, this paper builds a conceptual framework that knits together the different bodies of extant literature (i.e. entrepreneurship, strategy and innovation) to analyze the BM innovation processes associated with the exploitation of emerging technologies; determines the suitability of the framework using data from the exploratory case study of IT IS 3D – a firm which has started to exploit 3D printing in the food industry; and improves the initial conceptual framework with the findings that emerged in the case study.
Findings
From this analysis it emerged that: companies could use more than one BM at a time; hence, BM innovation processes could co-exist and be run in parallel; the facing of high uncertainty might lead firms to choose a closed and/or a familiar BM, while explorative strategies could be pursued with open BMs; significant changes in strategies during the technology commercialization process are not necessarily reflected in a radical change in the BM; and firms could deliberately adopt interim strategies and BMs as means to identify the more suitable ones to reach the market.
Originality/value
This case study illustrates how firms could innovate the processes of their BM development to face the uncertainties linked with the entry into a mature and highly conservative industry (food)
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Evidence and Experience of Open Sustainability Innovation Practices in the Food Sector
No full textThe adoption of an “open sustainability innovation” approach in business could
be a strategic advantage to reach both industry objectives and sustainability goals. The food sector is facing a constant increase in competition. In order to address the high
competition that involves the food industry, sustainability and innovation practices can be strategically effective, especially with an open sustainability innovation approach. In the literature, we found many examples of open innovation applications and their implications for sustainable strategy. These applications are important for reducing cost and time to market, as well as for a company’s impact on the environment and food
security. In this paper, the authors show the evidence of these implications. In particular,
starting from the state of the art of the food sector, we highlight the empirical results of ten case studies. By analyzing these cases, we can gain a better awareness on how and why these approaches are currently being applied by food sector companies
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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