Marc Grunhagen examines the evolution of fund-raising struggles in eleven in-depth case studies of seed and early stage ventures. The findings suggest two core recommendations for supporting growth-oriented fund-raising processes: a) to build legitimizing potential and b) to ensure sufficient financial scope for flexible adaptations throughout the financing struggle.

Das moderne Lehrbuch "Wirtschaftspolitik im Wandel" stellt sich dem Wandel in doppelter Weise: Es wandelt sich das Objekt der Wirtschaftspolitik im Wettbewerb auf den Guter- und Faktormarkten, und es wandelt sich die Wirtschaftspolitik selbst."

Das Jahrbuch Entrepreneurship bietet einen umfassenden Uberblick uber
den aktuellen Stand der Grundungsforschung. Es informiert ausfuhrlich
und kompetent uber die wichtigsten Entwicklungen in Theorie und Praxis.
Besondere Schwerpunkte bilden die Themen grundungsspezifische

Schlusselkompetenzen, Unternehmensentwicklung, Perspektiven des

Grundungsgeschehens, Entrepreneurship im internationalen Vergleich und
Gender-Aspekte im Grundungskontext.
Das Jahrbuch ist interessant fur Wissenschaftler und Dozenten in den Bereichen Entrepreneurship und Management sowie fur Praktiker in Klein-, Mittel- und Grossunternehmen.
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Das Werk strukturiert das Wissen zum Grundungsmanagement. Die Aufgaben und Losungen ermoglichen eine Vertiefung des Stoffes. Nicht nur fur Studierende und Seminarleiter, sondern auch fur Laien ist die Einfuhrung sehr gut geeignet."

During the past decades, intensive collaborative research in the fields of chronic and acute inflammatory disorders has resulted in a better understanding of the pathophysiology and diagnosis of these diseases. Modern therapeutic approaches remain unsatisfactory and shock, sepsis and multiple organ failure (MOF) are still a great challenge in intensive care medicine. Furthermore, treatment of inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis or psoriasis represents an unresolved problem as well. Many factors contribute to the complex course of inflammatory reactions. Microbiological, immunological and toxic agents are able to initiate the inflammatory response by activating a variety of humoural and cellular mediators. In the early phase of inflammation interleukins and lipid-mediators are excessively released and play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of organ dysfunction. Cellular lipid membranes represent a dynamic high turnover barrier system, which separate the intracellular from the extracellular space and easily adapt to respective demands. In addition to this barrier function membrane lipids (arachidonic acid) can be oxygenized to biologically active lipid mediators (eicosanoids). These function as "local mediators" which can quickly reach considerable concentrations and, due to their short half life, act in intercellular microenvironments.Two omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 FA) eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are mainly found in maritime sources, as opposed to omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids found in terrestrial sources (the typical western diet). Contemporary nutritional habits, emphasising industrially produced vegetable oils and animal fats, have disturbed this balance, resulting in a proportional decrease of omega-3 FA. This book presents an update of the pathophysiological impact of lipid mediators in inflammatory disorders and summarises the recent development of therapeutic approaches.

The inscription from Mesas do Castelinho, south Portugal, was discovered in September 2008. With 82 readable signs it is now the longest of the corpus of 95 Tartessian inscriptions. These texts survive from the Early Iron Age in the south-western Iberian Peninsula, the earliest writing from Atlantic Europe. By recombining word roots, prefixes and endings previously attested, the new inscription permits a major breakthrough with the language, confirming word divisions and contributing to the critical mass of evidence. It is now possible to take the case for Tartessian as an Indo-European and specifically Celtic language a step further, to ask what sort of Celtic language Tartessian was and how its syntax and sound system compares with those of Celtiberian, Gaulish, Old Irish and Welsh.

Participatory Action Research in Healthcare provides a guide to participatory action research in the community health setting. It draws upon the authors' experiences working, researching and engaging with people utilising collaborative, participatory approaches. The authors position participatory action research as a vital, dynamic and relevant approach that can be engaged by practitioners and health service providers. It is argued that participating with people is the way to move forward toward sustainable services that evoke human flourishing.

Participatory Action Research in Healthcare explores the key issues surrounding participatory action research, and examines the benefits of this approach for community development and health promotion. It includes detailed guidelines on data generation and analysis.

Inga Michler untersucht, ob und wie die deutsche Politik die Entstehung von High-Tech-Clustern, d.h. Grunder-Regionen, in denen sich Zukunftstechnologien konzentrieren, unterstutzen kann. Sie zeigt, dass man sich auf die Forderung herausragender Forschungsinstitute in einigen wenigen Regionen konzentrieren sollte. Denn lebendige Netzwerke zwischen Firmen, Universitaten und Forschungseinrichtungen generieren immer neue, innovative Ideen und sichern Wachstum und Arbeitsplatze.

The most comprehensive reference resource on Celtic culture; an encyclopedia written by and for scholars, yet accessible to all. This encyclopedia covers the entirety of the Celtic world, both through time and across geography. Although emphasizing the areas where Celtic languages and traditions survive into the present, the work does not slight the reaches of the Celtic empire, which was the largest language and cultural group on earth prior to the rise of Rome. In some 1,500 articles, many representing original research by the finest Celtic scholars, the work covers the Celts from prehistory to the present, giving comprehensive treatment to all topics from myth to music, religion to rulers, literature to language, government to games, and all topics in between. Entry into the rich world of Celtic scholarship has been difficult: The available information must be teased out of dense scholarly tomes or lightweight books emphasizing such popular elements of Celtic tradition as wee people, Druids, and blue-painted pagans. While this work treats those topics within its broad scope, the information is presented as scholarship, without the pop patina.