Industrializing Innovation-The Next Revolution

ISBN-13: 9783030124328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

Suresh K. Sharma; Karl E. Meyer

Spis treści

Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.- Chapter 2 – University research and development.. 17.- Chapter 3 - Large corporations are innovation challenged 27.- Chapter 4 – Venture capital.. 49.- Chapter 5 – Existing innovation ecosystems. 67.- Part 2 – Industrializing innovation.. 81.- Chapter 6 – Driving the innovation ecosystem and the startup 81.- Chapter 7 – The new entrepreneur.. 101.- Chapter 8 – New startup ecosystems and the innovation hub 119.- Chapter 9 – Venture capital - A new framework.. 157.- Chapter 10 – Innovation in the corporate world.. 171.- Chapter 11 – University technology to market.. 189.- Chapter 12 – New frontiers – digital transformation of ‘life-work-innovate’ 197.- Part 3 – Innovation is universal – going global.. 203.- Chapter 13 – Bringing water to innovation deserts. 205.- Chapter 14 - IS Africa ready to innovate?. 213.- Chapter 15 –The role of smart cities or regional hubs. 223.- Chapter 16 – China and india industrializing innovation in large countries 231.- Epilogue.. 247.- Appendix 1 - Essays. 253.- Appendix 2 – Women entrepreneurs. 285.- Acknowledgements. 291.- Bibliography. 293.- About the authors. 297.

O autorze

Mr. Suresh K. Sharma co-founded Open Range Capital Partners and is it’s Managing Partner. Currently, he also actively helps commercialize university innovations into startups. A former GE executive-turned-entrepreneur, he exemplifies remarkably rich global track record of innovation, startups, technology, capital investments and business leadership. His last book; “The 3^rd American Dream” (2014, 2^nd Ed.) focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. And an earlier one; “Global Outsourcing” (2005) laid out a pragmatic road map of scaling businesses internationally. He has had advanced education in India, UK and USA.

Mr. Karl E. Meyer recently co-founded a very innovative and unique investment enterprise - 'Open Range Capital Partners' - that is designed to significantly transform venture capital, and its ability to creation value using digital technologies. He is a VC with deep global business operating experience. During his 30 years of outstanding software technology career - spreading over numerous countries in all 4 continents with leading Fortune 50 corporations - he has left indelible footprints of changing the game for hundreds of applications, architectures, M&A, and turnarounds in multiple industries including: energy, healthcare, smart manufacturing, sensors, software, data analytics and the data supply chain.  A keen student of innovation process globally, he is one of the world's leading experts on architecting next generation 'Innovation Hubs' leveraging visible patterns and other anti-patterns.