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A preliminary study of agility in business and production - Cases of early-stage hardware startups

2018

[Context] Advancement in technologies, popularity of small-batch manufacturing and the recent trend of investing in hardware startups are among the factors leading to the rise of hardware startups nowadays. It is essential for hardware startups, companies that involve both software and hardware development, to be not only agile to develop their business but also efficient to develop the right products. [Objective] We investigate how hardware startups achieve agility when developing their products in early stages. [Methods] A qualitative research is conducted with data from 20 hardware startups. [Result] Preliminary results show that agile development is known to hardware entrepreneurs, howe…

Herramientas para la generación y evaluación ex-ante de modelos de negocio

2015

El trabajo de investigación recogido en esta Tesis construye sobre dos líneas de investigación que han recibido un notable impulso en los últimos años. Se trata de dos líneas enmarcadas en el extenso ámbito de la innovación empresarial, con especial aplicación al mundo de la iniciativa emprendedora. Se trata de: • la creación de oportunidades y mercados, como concepto que amplía el tradicional descubrimiento de oportunidades, y lo sustituye como origen de la iniciativa emprendedora (Alvarez and Barney, 2007; Dew et al., 2011), y • la innovación en modelos de negocio, como herramienta competitiva que amplía los espacios tradicionales de aplicación de la innovación al ámbito de la concepción …

Internal Software Startups - A Multiple Case Study on Practices, Methods, and Success Factors

2020

Startups are often seen as drivers of innovation. In an attempt to leverage this potential, larger business organizations have founded internal startups as a subset of internal corporate ventures (ICV). These smaller organizations are intended to be more agile than the parent organization, in order to produce new service and product innovations using their own methods and practices independently of the organizational culture and methods of the parent organization. However, our understanding of ICVs is still lacking in terms of processes and success factors, and especially the more recent internal startups have scarcely been studied thus far. To approach this novel area of research, we take …

Dense Solid-Liquid Off-Bottom Suspension Dynamics: Simulation and Experiment

2009

Dense solid-liquid off-bottom suspension inside a baffled mechanically agitated stirred tank equipped with a standard Rushton turbine is investigated. Dynamic evolution of the suspension from start up to steady state conditions has been inspected by both visual experiments and computational fluid dynamics. A classical Eulerian-Eulerian Multi Fluid Model along with the “homogeneous” k-epsilon turbulence model is adopted to simulate suspension dynamics. In these systems the drag inter-phase force affects both solids suspension and distribution. Therefore, different computational approaches are tested in order to compute this term. Simulation results are compared with images acquired on the re…

An interest-aware video streaming platform: Shaping its architecture to better suit users' demands

2014

This paper investigates how a p2p television platform can take advantage of the presence of frequent channel viewers to grant them a more satisfying service than to less regular spectators. The idea we explore is to learn beforehand about the users’ interests, in order to cluster them in groups that display different behaviors; then, the video chunk scheduling algorithm of the p2p overlay is altered, with the aim of serving frequent spectators in a privileged manner, providing them with a faster access to the selected channel. An analytical model is developed, to capture the difference in startup delay that the proposed changes introduce; several additional performance metrics are numerical…

The Lean Urban Policies’ Design A values-centered method for sustainable urban planning.

In these past years, the necessity and urgency has emerged for policies tied to an alternate development to be efficiently applied, and not limited to single operations. The policies must be defined by a clear and effective method of action.
 Starting by investigating what are the relationship among human being, built environment and natural sources, in fact, we think it is possible to enrich the sustainable urban planning policies with new contents and possibly, new tools. By describing the frame, the objective is to define the most effective method, to be able to convey an effective project action and governance for the territory, to achieve predefined social and energy based objectives. …

The Role of Business Plan Competitions in the Processes of Defining and Launching a New Venture. Cases of Companies Involved in the ‘StartCup’ Palerm…

2015

Deregulation and re-regulation of the economy as key ways to support new start up companies and develop ease of doing business. International experie…

2017

Rilievi interpretativi del concetto di successo per il fenotipo start-up e la sottostante funzione imprenditoriale del founder

2020

Il lavoro si sofferma sul concetto di successo aziendale a partire da una consapevole definizione del finalismo aziendale e quindi delle ragioni e degli obiettivi che l'azienda è chiamata a perseguire; un riferimento specifico viene fatto alle startup e al modello di business (e relativi presupposti etici) che deve delinearne l'avvio e lo sviluppo nel mercato. Spunti di riflessioni e suggerimenti di metriche di valutazione vengono desunti dal tipo delle benefit corporation.

A dynamic business modelling approach to design and experiment new business venture strategies

2018

Abstract Business Modelling has evolved as a key activity to reflect new business venture strategy by framing the way a firm will operate and how it will function in achieving its goals (e.g., profitability, growth, innovation, social impact). However, scholars and practitioners have criticized the adoption of a too static perspective in the design and use of conventional Business Model representations. Such a static perspective prevents nascent entrepreneurs experimenting with their Business Models and, as a result, identifying the most effective strategies, especially in terms of business sustainability and profitability. In this paper, we argue that combining conventional Business Model …