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Innovation is the translation of a new method, idea, or product
into reality and profit. It is a process of connected steps that
accumulates into your brand or reputation. However, there can be
many pitfalls and wrong turns on the road to realizing this goal.
Innovation, Commercialization, and Start-Ups in Life Sciences
details the methodologies necessary to create a successful life
sciences start-up from initiation to exit. You will gain an
appreciation for the necessary data, partnership, and skills to be
acquired and the constituencies that must be satisfied along the
way. The book examines how life sciences start-ups can create an
exit for their investors by recognizing that a liquidity event is
not consummated without due diligence. Due diligence is bigger than
validating accounting transactions. It ensures the company is
solving an important customer problem, demonstrating sales access,
and making sure that intellectual property is impervious to
competitive advancement. The due diligence process supports the
telling of a compelling story to customers, investors, regulators,
and acquirers. Written by an expert who has worked with more than
200 life sciences start-ups during the past decade, the book
discusses specific processes and investor milestones that must be
navigated to align customer, funder, and acquirer needs. It
examines these processes from the perspective of marketing value
through a focus on the needs of individual constituents-investors,
regulators, customers, and exit candidates. The book presents data
and analytical processes articulating the fundable milestones for
angel and venture capital. It gives you the tools needed to create
branding for public investors and more.
Modern industrial agriculture is not sustainable because of its
heavy reliance on petroleum, a non-renewable source of the energy
used in farming, and because of pollution caused by petroleum
products such as fertilizers and pesticides. A systems analysis of
farming suggests that agriculture will be more sustainable when
services of nature, such as nutrient recycling by soil
micro-organisms and natural controls of insects, replace the
services now provided by energy from petroleum. Examples are drawn
from the Southeastern USA, but lessons learned can be applied
worldwide.
Research in tropical forestry is confronted with the task of
finding strategies to alleviate pressure on remaining forests, and
techniques to enhance forest regeneration and restore abandoned
lands, using productive alternatives that can be attractive to
local human populations. In addition, sustainable forestry in
tropical countries must be supported by adequate policies to
promote and maintain specific activities at local and regional
scales.
Here, a multi-disciplinary approach is presented, to better the
understanding of tropical forest ecology, as a necessary step in
developing adequate strategies for conservation and management. The
authors have long experience in both academic and practical matters
related to tropical forest ecology and management.
This work evaluates the merits of a widely-used approach to natural
resource management, participatory action research (PAR), an
approach to resource management that strives to link researchers
with farmers and other local residents whose lives are effected by
long-range conservation programmes. The authors begin the book with
the history of PAR, and then use a variety of case studies that
chronicle sustainable development efforts in Brazil. They evaluate
the strengths and weaknesses of these efforts and suggest specific
ways to improve on future PAR efforts.
Focused specifically on Life Science Start-Ups Examines how to
determine a company valuation and future "fundable milestones"
Explores how to align regulatory and clinical strategies Discusses
intellectual property derived from a university or individual
through formation to exit. Reviews how start-ups must
simultaneously meet the needs of multiple constituencies at once:
investors, regulators, customers and exit candidates
Focused specifically on Life Science Start-Ups Examines how to
determine a company valuation and future "fundable milestones"
Explores how to align regulatory and clinical strategies Discusses
intellectual property derived from a university or individual
through formation to exit. Reviews how start-ups must
simultaneously meet the needs of multiple constituencies at once:
investors, regulators, customers and exit candidates
This work evaluates the merits of a widely-used approach to natural
resource management, participatory action research (PAR), an
approach to resource management that strives to link researchers
with farmers and other local residents whose lives are effected by
long-range conservation programmes. The authors begin the book with
the history of PAR, and then use a variety of case studies that
chronicle sustainable development efforts in Brazil. They evaluate
the strengths and weaknesses of these efforts and suggest specific
ways to improve on future PAR efforts.
Modern industrial agriculture is not sustainable because of its
heavy reliance on petroleum, a non-renewable source of the energy
used in farming, and because of pollution caused by petroleum
products such as fertilizers and pesticides. A systems analysis of
farming suggests that agriculture will be more sustainable when
services of nature, such as nutrient recycling by soil
micro-organisms and natural controls of insects, replace the
services now provided by energy from petroleum. Examples are drawn
from the Southeastern USA, but lessons learned can be applied
worldwide.
DEVELOPMENT AND DISTURBANCE IN AMAZON FORESTS Contrasting
Impressions 6 2 The rain forests of the Amazon Basin cover
approximately 5.8 x 10 km (Salati and Vose 1984). Flying over even
just part of this basin, one gazes hour after hour upon this
seemingly infinite blanket of green. The impression of immen sity
is similar when viewed from the Amazon River itself, or from its
tributar ies. From a hammock on the shaded deck of a riverboat, the
immensity of the forest presents an incredible monotony as one view
of the shoreline blends unnoticeably into another. From both
perspectives, the overwhelming reaction to the sea of trees that
stretches from horizon to horizon is a sense of the vastness of the
rain forest. In September 1985, I got a different impression of the
rain forest. Several students and I journeyed in a self-propelled
car along the single-track railroad that stretches almost 1000 km
from the Carajas iron ore mine in the rain forest of Para State,
Brazil, all the way to Sao Luis on the coast (Fig. 1.1)."
Research in tropical forestry is confronted with the task of
finding strategies to alleviate pressure on remaining forests, and
techniques to enhance forest regeneration and restore abandoned
lands, using productive alternatives that can be attractive to
local human populations. In addition, sustainable forestry in
tropical countries must be supported by adequate policies to
promote and maintain specific activities at local and regional
scales.
Here, a multi-disciplinary approach is presented, to better the
understanding of tropical forest ecology, as a necessary step in
developing adequate strategies for conservation and management. The
authors have long experience in both academic and practical matters
related to tropical forest ecology and management.
Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling
collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new
meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can
transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and
knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists, museum
curators, art historians, and anthropologists, who address artistic
production in a variety of locations and media to question previous
uses of interview and provoke alternative understandings of
art.
Survival of the fittest" is a tautology, because those that are
"fit" are the ones that survive, but to survive, a species must be
"fit". Modern evolutionary theory avoids the problem by defining
fitness as reproductive success, but the complexity of life that we
see today could not have evolved based on selection that favors
only reproductive ability. There is nothing inherent in
reproductive success alone that could result in higher forms of
life. Evolution from a Thermodynamic Perspective presents a
non-circular definition of fitness and a thermodynamic definition
of evolution. Fitness means maximization of power output, necessary
to survive in a competitive world. Evolution is the "storage of
entropy". "Entropy storage" means that solar energy, instead of
dissipating as heat in the Earth, is stored in the structure of
living organisms and ecosystems. Part one explains this in terms
comprehensible to a scientific audience beyond biophysicists and
ecosystem modelers. Part two applies thermodynamic theory in
non-esoteric language to sustainability of agriculture, and to
conservation of endangered species. While natural systems are
stabilized by feedback, agricultural systems remain in a mode of
perpetual growth, pressured by balance of trade and by a swelling
population. The constraints imposed by thermodynamic laws are being
increasingly felt as economic expansion destabilizes resource
systems on which expansion depends.
This elementary text introduces basic quantum mechanics to
undergraduates with no background in mathematics beyond algebra.
Containing more than 100 problems, it provides an easy way to learn
part of the quantum language and apply it to problems.
Emphasizing the matrices representing physical quantities, it
describes states simply by mean values of physical quantities or by
probabilities for possible values. This approach requires using the
algebra of matrices and complex numbers together with probabilities
and mean values, a technique introduced at the outset and used
repeatedly. Students discover the essential simplicity of quantum
mechanics by focusing on basics and working only with key elements
of the mathematical structure--an original point of view that
offers a refreshing alternative for students new to quantum
mechanics.
Danger Sound Klaxon! reveals the untold story of the Klaxon
automobile horn, one of the first great electrical consumer
technologies of the twentieth century. Although its metallic shriek
at first shocked pedestrians, savvy advertising strategies
convinced consumers across the United States and western Europe to
adopt the shrill Klaxon horn as the safest signaling technology
available in the 1910s. The widespread use of Klaxons in the
trenches of World War I, however, transformed how veterans heard
this car horn, and its traumatic association with gas attacks
ultimately doomed this once ubiquitous consumer technology. By
charting the meteoric rise and eventual fall of the Klaxon, Matthew
Jordan highlights how perceptions of sound-producing technologies
are guided by, manipulated, and transformed through advertising
strategies, public debate, consumer reactions, and governmental
regulations. Jordan demonstrates in this fascinating history how
consumers are led toward technological solutions for problems
themselves created by technology.
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