Entrepreneurs who start out with no network, no money, no market and scarce resources find a big contrast between what they read in books and the success stories from the Valley and their reality, specially first-timers. Most entrepreneurial books focus on the Business Canvas Model, simplifying the process of building a start-up. Many entrepreneurs who have no previous business experience embrace quick and lean methods without the foundations needed to build solid value proposals. This book stands out because it deals with entrepreneurship in environments far removed from large cities with fewer infrastructures, connections and resources but which also need companies that provide services to citizens and society. This book focuses on the basics, treating each part of the business canvas as a discipline itself that must be mastered. The book illustrates key lessons learned and offers guidance on essential topics for new venture success in mainstream markets. It expands critical lessons learned and points of guidance across several key topics for new venture creation. Noteworthy is the role of context, financial understanding, building business development skills and start-up communications. Entrepreneurship for Rural Start-ups will be of interest to students, academics and researchers in the field of entrepreneurship, and will be of use to individuals looking to start a local business to take advantage of the rural environment and the possibilities it offers.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces. Understanding cities as spaces for encounter, conflict and otherness, this book argues that this indeterminacy is not marginal but a key characteristic of urban space, and degrees of liberty foster change, creativity, and political action. The urban void is a conceptual construct that aims to render a principle of absence apprehensible, and to describe how it intervenes in place-making in the city. Seville: Through the Urban Void build mostly upon Henri Lefebvre's work using concepts drawn on the social sciences, in order to articulate a biographic narrative of the Alameda de Hercules in Seville, Spain, which stands both as an outstanding instance of urban space and a very influential urban type. During its long historical span the Alameda has undergone alternating periods of decline and development, revealing the relations between successive urban paradigms and ideas of nature, territory, and the people. For the first time its whole history is told in a single account, which adds new perspectives to its understanding, and brings forward formerly disregarded aspects. This book shows how its liminal nature, which stubbornly persists over time, creates the conditions for creative processes.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces. Understanding cities as spaces for encounter, conflict and otherness, this book argues that this indeterminacy is not marginal but a key characteristic of urban space, and degrees of liberty foster change, creativity, and political action. The urban void is a conceptual construct that aims to render a principle of absence apprehensible, and to describe how it intervenes in place-making in the city. Seville: Through the Urban Void build mostly upon Henri Lefebvre's work using concepts drawn on the social sciences, in order to articulate a biographic narrative of the Alameda de Hercules in Seville, Spain, which stands both as an outstanding instance of urban space and a very influential urban type. During its long historical span the Alameda has undergone alternating periods of decline and development, revealing the relations between successive urban paradigms and ideas of nature, territory, and the people. For the first time its whole history is told in a single account, which adds new perspectives to its understanding, and brings forward formerly disregarded aspects. This book shows how its liminal nature, which stubbornly persists over time, creates the conditions for creative processes.

Entrepreneurs who start out with no network, no money, no market and scarce resources find a big contrast between what they read in books and the success stories from the Valley and their reality, specially first-timers. Most entrepreneurial books focus on the Business Canvas Model, simplifying the process of building a start-up. Many entrepreneurs who have no previous business experience embrace quick and lean methods without the foundations needed to build solid value proposals. This book stands out because it deals with entrepreneurship in environments far removed from large cities with fewer infrastructures, connections and resources but which also need companies that provide services to citizens and society. This book focuses on the basics, treating each part of the business canvas as a discipline itself that must be mastered. The book illustrates key lessons learned and offers guidance on essential topics for new venture success in mainstream markets. It expands critical lessons learned and points of guidance across several key topics for new venture creation. Noteworthy is the role of context, financial understanding, building business development skills and start-up communications. Entrepreneurship for Rural Start-ups will be of interest to students, academics and researchers in the field of entrepreneurship, and will be of use to individuals looking to start a local business to take advantage of the rural environment and the possibilities it offers.

Universities are becoming more entrepreneurial, and for local communities and companies, this has increased their economic standings tenfold. However, the competitiveness of developing economies thanks to these financially focused institutions has likewise increased. Examining the Role of Entrepreneurial Universities in Regional Development provides emerging research exploring how universities foster and support entrepreneurship and the development of a more entrepreneurial organization and highlights the importance of this process for local communities and companies. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as institutional entrepreneurship, public management, and economic contribution, this book is ideally designed for university presidents, provosts, rectors, chancellors, board members, managers, business professionals, policymakers, academicians, students, and researchers.

Universities are becoming more entrepreneurial, and for local communities and companies, this has increased their economic standings tenfold. However, the competitiveness of developing economies thanks to these financially focused institutions has likewise increased. Examining the Role of Entrepreneurial Universities in Regional Development provides emerging research exploring how universities foster and support entrepreneurship and the development of a more entrepreneurial organization and highlights the importance of this process for local communities and companies. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as institutional entrepreneurship, public management, and economic contribution, this book is ideally designed for university presidents, provosts, rectors, chancellors, board members, managers, business professionals, policymakers, academicians, students, and researchers.

Jupu the Puffin is the story of a curious and adventurous bird that flies and swims all over the western hemisphere. Throughout his journey he meets other birds, eats exotic fruits, and learns about different cultures in the Americas. This tale of adventure and exploration is sure to win the hearts of parents and children that love to read and travel It is a vivid children's geography book set in the Americas.

La educacion es el fiel reflejo de la sociedad y si esta en crisis es porque la sociedad tambien lo esta. Existe en el ser nacional una crisis de valores y una creciente deshumanizacion producida por una revolucion cientifico-tecnologica que ha privilegiado una cierta moral del exito para alcanzar una prosperidad falaz que, a la larga, compromete nuestro destino como pais. En este contexto, el libro de Miguel Torres, Una revolucion pacifica, constituye un valioso aporte que senala, con claridad meridiana, las pautas para hacer de nuestra tarea educativa una accion que prepare no para la posesion y la fijacion de nuestra existencia en el disfrute de lo adquirido, sino para la creacion y la emergencia de los mas nobles valores de la humanidad. Es una tarea que compromete a todos los peruanos de buena voluntad, que deseanmos una prosperidad basada en un desarrollo sostenible y en solidos principios, valores eticos y morales. Existen sucesos que cambian la rutina nacional y demandan otro tipo de formacion. Hay que reconocer que se ha perdido mucho en la ensenanza de los valores morales y que, si no se rescatan, todo el crecimiento economico del pais se echara a perder. Este libro tiene la mision de empezar una Cruzada semejante a aquellas de la Edad Media, pero a favor del Respeto. El Evangelio nos indica que el Senor quiere que todos seamos prosperados en todo sentido, especialmente prosperos en alma. Ha habido muchas "Revoluciones" en la historia del mundo, sangrientas en su gran mayoria, pero la que el autor de este libro propone, con un titulo paradojico, es Una revolucion pacifica, pues esta convencido de que solo el Respeto salvara al Peru."

La educacion es el fiel reflejo de la sociedad y si esta en crisis es porque la sociedad tambien lo esta. Existe en el ser nacional una crisis de valores y una creciente deshumanizacion producida por una revolucion cientifico-tecnologica que ha privilegiado una cierta moral del exito para alcanzar una prosperidad falaz que, a la larga, compromete nuestro destino como pais. En este contexto, el libro de Miguel Torres, Una revolucion pacifica, constituye un valioso aporte que senala, con claridad meridiana, las pautas para hacer de nuestra tarea educativa una accion que prepare no para la posesion y la fijacion de nuestra existencia en el disfrute de lo adquirido, sino para la creacion y la emergencia de los mas nobles valores de la humanidad. Es una tarea que compromete a todos los peruanos de buena voluntad, que deseanmos una prosperidad basada en un desarrollo sostenible y en solidos principios, valores eticos y morales. Existen sucesos que cambian la rutina nacional y demandan otro tipo de formacion. Hay que reconocer que se ha perdido mucho en la ensenanza de los valores morales y que, si no se rescatan, todo el crecimiento economico del pais se echara a perder. Este libro tiene la mision de empezar una Cruzada semejante a aquellas de la Edad Media, pero a favor del Respeto. El Evangelio nos indica que el Senor quiere que todos seamos prosperados en todo sentido, especialmente prosperos en alma. Ha habido muchas "Revoluciones" en la historia del mundo, sangrientas en su gran mayoria, pero la que el autor de este libro propone, con un titulo paradojico, es Una revolucion pacifica, pues esta convencido de que solo el Respeto salvara al Peru."

Crucible tells the tale of a young man named Tony who grew up on the city streets of Brooklyn. Tony's background is one of an absentee father and mother who were in and out of his life. So many of the life lessons he should have gotten by way of example were absent as well. Lessons like, forgiveness, grace, mercy and most of all love and how to make it work. His picture was murky at best. Having seen far more examples of what NOT TO DO, he was at a loss when he became an adult as to how to make all of the relationships in his life permanent without all the venom, the adult from his childhood, carried. This is a tale of a man who went out into the world in search of this thing he had sought unsuccessfully his entire life - LOVE. It is here the tale is drawn. That life long journey to love from all the wounded places of our eternal hearts. How to love, live and prosper through all the bags we carry. All the predetermined bad programming our extended families and parents leave us with. HE NEEDED TO DEFINE love before he could find it. He needed to define it in a working place FOR HIMSELF. Because if he didn't FEEL IT, it wasn't real for him. Would he be able to persevere through those questions and maintain that blessing once he found it? Was it LOVE truly? And if it was, the REAL QUESTION WAS, HOW WOULD HE EVER KEEP IT AS BROKEN AS HE WAS?

This book proposes the implementation of a novel hybrid method for cell detection and cell tracking of biological cells of "in vitro" samples. The proposed detection for this method is done by the evaluation of a computational method based on image processing methods; Several tecniques and methods had been developed and the better combination of them for our porpuse were normalization, equalization, binarization, morphological operators, normalized cross correlation and a settle algorithm. Background elimination is a priori task for this work. Fourier analysis plays an important role in this work, by frequency analysis the elimination of the background is easier and faster.

Bringing together a collection of chapters on China's Belt and Road Initiative (hereafter, BRI), this book offers a comprehensive overview of the topic from a business and economics perspective. With contributions from scholars it provides theoretical and empirical analysis of the opportunities and challenges facing multinational enterprises and their foreign direct investment activities abroad in relation to BRI. Additionally, the contributors cover such key areas including economics and international business, international trade, global value chains, environmental issues and international business policy, creating a useful tool for academics, as well as policy-makers and practitioners in China and other countries along the new Silk Road. The implementation of BRI is establishing significant connectivity networks, including aviation e-service network and trade network systems, and fostering connectivity in other various areas. The initiative has promoted economic and financial development of the countries along the route in terms of infrastructure construction, connectivity, and capital flow of foreign direct investments. Multinational enterprises have a significant role to play, and it is affected by many factors, including social trust and economic freedom, financial competitiveness, and trade openness. The interconnection across the countries has brought about economic impacts between China and the countries along BRI. Given the ongoing US-China trade war and international relations, this topic gains even more interest. Therefore, it is important to assess the costs and benefits of BRI regarding international business activities of foreign companies, including the environmental impact of BRI to mitigate climate change, but equally importantly it is to evaluate the opportunities and challenges facing multinational companies and global value chains. This book will make a valuable contribution to international business studies and provide an overall overview on the topics of international trade and investment and sustainable development within BRI through changes in investment scale and efficiency. This edited volume will interest scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of international business studies, globalization, economics, political science, and Chinese politics.