This open access edited volume explores the past, present, and future of artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship - the unforeseen consequences and ways to advance to a sustainable future. In particular, it connects artificiality, sustainability and entrepreneurship, intertwining artificial with the specific phenomenon of those novel digital technologies that provoke continuous and significant change in our lives and business. Unlike digital entrepreneurship research, which focuses on digital technology development and management, this book covers processes and mechanisms of sustainable adaptability of entrepreneurs, the business logic of start-ups, and the collaborative behaviours under the mass digital transformation, including the prevalence of artificial intelligence. Some of the questions that this book answers are as follows: How has entrepreneurship reacted to such challenges previously? What lessons have been learned and need to be carried forward? How can entrepreneurship and the artefacts of entrepreneurship respond to current challenges? What should be the mindset of the entrepreneur to assure sustainable adaptation? How to embrace and embed the new business logic?

Corporate venturing is a key strategic growth tool, but it is also complex and most programmes fail. Learn how to successfully manage, measure and improve a corporate venturing programme with this one-stop strategic guide. The Corporate Venturing Handbook delivers phase-by-phase guidance on the effective set-up, operation and termination of a corporate venturing programme. Shedding light on how corporate venturing actually works in practice, it outlines how to manage its underlying dynamics and avoid pitfalls. Its intuitive and systematic framework navigates users through meeting objectives and expectations so they can successfully generate value for their organizations. The framework is evidence-based and data-driven, steering users to make informed decisions specifically tailored to their own organizational needs, and also offers a valuable tool to help measure and capture the financial and strategic return on innovation, improving the transparency and traceability of value creation. Readers will also benefit from best practice insights, cases and examples from some of the biggest and most longstanding corporate venturing programmes in the world, including Siemens Healthineers, Shell Ventures, Axa Venture Capital and Strategic Capital, PM Equity Partner, Nestle and Samsung.

Manager sehen sich auf nahezu allen Ebenen ihres Handelns mit Unsicherheiten konfrontiert. Fast alle etablierten Unternehmen verschreiben sich dem Ziel, dynamischeren und unsicheren Markten mit gesteigerter Innovationskraft zu begegnen. Handeln wie ein Start-up und Fahrtaufnehmen wie ein Ozeandampfer beschreibt aber fur viele Firmen die Quadratur des Kreises. Unternehmen mussen wieder energetisiert und unternehmerischer werden. Doch wie?

Antworten liefert dieses Praxisbuch. Fuhrende Autoren aus Wissenschaft, Beratung und Unternehmenspraxis zeigen Wege, wie die unternehmerische Methode Effectuation gewinnbringend zur Geschaftsmodellinnovation genutzt und konkret im Unternehmen umgesetzt werden kann. Nachvollziehbare Fallstudien illustrieren die Prinzipien des Effectuation-Ansatzes und fordern zur direkten Umsetzung in der eigenen unternehmerischen Praxis auf.

Thema dieses Kompendiums ist die Finanzierung von Unternehmensgr ndungen und des Unternehmenswachstums in einer fr hen Phase. Der Band mit wissenschaftlichen Beitr gen von prominenten Fachvertretern ist die erste geschlossene Publikation zum Thema Entrepreneurial Finance. Er wendet sich einerseits an Wissenschaftler, die sich diese noch junge Disziplin erschlie en wollen, und liefert andererseits Unternehmern und deren Finanziers einen breiten Rahmen, um Finanzierungs- und Investitionsentscheidungen kritisch zu reflektieren und im strukturierten Dialog mit der Wissenschaft zu diskutieren.

Das Buch unterstützt Gründer, Mitarbeiter, Investoren, Mentoren und weitere Stakeholder von skalierenden Start-ups, sogenannten "Scale-ups", bei deren nachhaltiger Skalierung. Es baut auf einem klar strukturierten, iterativen Prozess auf, der basierend auf jahrzehntelangen Branchenerkenntnissen aus dem Venture Capital und der Unterstützung von über 350 Unternehmen und zehn Start-ups mit einer Bewertung von über einer Milliarde US-Dollar entwickelt wurde (sogenannte "Unicorns"). Diese Erfahrungen kombinieren die Autoren mit Erkenntnissen aus der Forschung und bereiten sie leserfreundlich auf. So können Leser ein besseres Verständnis für verschiedenste Herausforderungen bei der Skalierung ihres Unternehmens entwickeln und diese besser meistern. Dazu zählen beispielsweise die Evaluation von Umsatzwachstumsoptionen, die Skalierung des Mitarbeiterteams sowie die Implementierung effizienter Organisationsstrukturen und Kommunikationsprozesse.

This open access edited volume explores the past, present, and future of artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship - the unforeseen consequences and ways to advance to a sustainable future. In particular, it connects artificiality, sustainability and entrepreneurship, intertwining artificial with the specific phenomenon of those novel digital technologies that provoke continuous and significant change in our lives and business. Unlike digital entrepreneurship research, which focuses on digital technology development and management, this book covers processes and mechanisms of sustainable adaptability of entrepreneurs, the business logic of start-ups, and the collaborative behaviours under the mass digital transformation, including the prevalence of artificial intelligence. Some of the questions that this book answers are as follows: How has entrepreneurship reacted to such challenges previously? What lessons have been learned and need to be carried forward? How can entrepreneurship and the artefacts of entrepreneurship respond to current challenges? What should be the mindset of the entrepreneur to assure sustainable adaptation? How to embrace and embed the new business logic?

Corporate venturing is a key strategic growth tool, but it is also complex and most programmes fail. Learn how to successfully manage, measure and improve a corporate venturing programme with this one-stop strategic guide. The Corporate Venturing Handbook delivers phase-by-phase guidance on the effective set-up, operation and termination of a corporate venturing programme. Shedding light on how corporate venturing actually works in practice, it outlines how to manage its underlying dynamics and avoid pitfalls. Its intuitive and systematic framework navigates users through meeting objectives and expectations so they can successfully generate value for their organizations. The framework is evidence-based and data-driven, steering users to make informed decisions specifically tailored to their own organizational needs, and also offers a valuable tool to help measure and capture the financial and strategic return on innovation, improving the transparency and traceability of value creation. Readers will also benefit from best practice insights, cases and examples from some of the biggest and most longstanding corporate venturing programmes in the world, including Siemens Healthineers, Shell Ventures, Axa Venture Capital and Strategic Capital, PM Equity Partner, Nestle and Samsung.

This core text and practical handbook presents a dynamic start-up framework with building blocks and steps to help readers to increase the success rate of their new venture. Taking a data-driven, iterative, and evidential approach, it guides readers to collect their own data at every stage, helping them to make strong business decisions based on empirical facts and develop their venture in a systematic way. Throughout the learning and venture creation process users will be supported by a multitude of handy tools and techniques. Cutting edge research is applied to practice to help users maximise their chances of entrepreneurial success and gain a critical understanding of the issues at hand. Drawing on the latest industry trends and tools, Start Up Navigator offers a state-of-the-art guide to new venture creation. It will be the ideal text for aspiring entrepreneurs keen to boost the success of their venture. It is also highly suitable for university students studying courses on entrepreneurship, new venture creation and start-up management at undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA level. Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/startup-navigator. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.

Dietmar Grichnik untersucht die Strukturen und Leistungen der Verbande auf ihre okonomische Effizienz und entwickelt ein Konzept kollektiver Strategien der Mitgliedsunternehmen einer Bankengruppe.