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This classic novel of a perfectly engineered society is “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (The Wall Street Journal). Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from…

It has long been assumed that new product innovations are typically developed by product manufacturers, an assumption that has inevitably had a major impact on innovation-related research and activities ranging from how firms organize their research and development to how governments measure innovation. In this synthesis of his seminal research, von Hippel challenges that basic…

Praise for From Innovation to Cash Flows "Critically important topics for all entrepreneurs, new and experienced. Collaboration, intellectual property, and funding are described with depth and thoughtfulness. From Innovation to Cash Flows provides both the theoretical structure and the rich examples to serve as a great reference. Not to be missed!" —Cheryl A. Fragiadakis, Head…

La transformación digital ha cambiado también las prácticas laborales. La mayoría de los emprendedores, y la gente que conforma sus equipos, trabajan a distancia. ¿Cómo lograr que realmente sean exitosos y productivos? Dream Team Virtual te ayuda a saber cómo seleccionar a los expertos cualificados, qué plataformas virtuales utilizar, cómo estructurar y apoyar a tu…

Cualquiera que tenga acceso a una conexión de Internet puede ganar dinero a traves de esta vía. A diferencia de las empresas convencionales, el mundo online tiene un bajo costo inicial; todo lo que se necesita es saber que hacer. La presente Guia de acceso rapido a la venta online brinda todas las claves para…

El mundo empresarial no ha sido ajeno a los cambios de hábitos que hemos experimentado con la revolución tecnológica que vivimos, y se ha producido una autentica fiebre por parte de la mayoría de las empresas, por adaptarse a los nuevos tiempos y no perder el tren de la vanguardia de las nuevas tecnologías. Para…

"On November 7-8, 2013, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop to discuss approaches related to identifying and reducing potential environmental public health risks to new and existing industrial chemicals present in society. Industrial chemicals include chemicals used in industrial processes or commercial products, not including those…

Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm. The purpose of traditional safety management is therefore to find ways to ensure this ‘freedom’. But as socio-technical systems steadily have become larger and less tractable, this has become harder to do. Resilience engineering pointed out from the very beginning that resilient performance - an organisation’s…

The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development (IAASTD) looks realistically at how we could effectively use agriculture/AKST to help us meet development and sustainability goals. An unprecedented three-year collaborative effort, the IAASTD involved more than 400 authors in 110 countries and cost more than $11 million. It reports on the advances…

Pundits on both the right and the left often portray religion and feminism as inherently incompatible, as opposing forces in American culture. Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers seeks to dispel that notion by asking sixteen well-known religious figures to tell the story of how they became involved in the women's movement. Their work-much of…