Bøger af Henri Swan

The world as we know it today is made of collective innovation accumulated through millions of years and copied, improved, and scaled by successive civilizations and dynasties. Innovation tends to take place in an ecosystem where the entrepreneurial spirit is prevalent, with access to good research institutions and ample funding, enabling a vibrant collaboration between individuals that foster innovation. The university system in America is unusual among industrialized countries to have a long history of interaction with the commercial corporation "The Industry", where many of the innovative activities within universities rely on the input of both ideas and people along with generous financial support. Such interactions are very rare in Europe, Japan, or most developing countries, but are becoming common gradually. This book is about bringing clarity and transparency into the knowledge economy and helping accelerate its evolution further, by democratizing innovation execution and thought leadership, accessing actionable insights to level the playing field and help shape the current and future generation of innovators from across the world on how to execute incremental improvement to the human lives and solve pressing global challenges of our times.

Master your Innovation Success from Idea to Exit (Color Illustrated Paperback Edition). This book is everything you need to know and the most comprehensive ever published covering startup, innovation and venture capital lifecycle in one volume of over 400 pages loaded with color graphs and illustration with actionable insights from over 100 experts at leading institution, including Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Google, Apple and scientific research academia.Corporate, Academia and Institutional Investors spend five trillion dollars a year globally on innovation, where two third of initiatives fails, this book is about reversing that. We face pressing challenges. Eco-degradation, infuctuous diseases and new risks brought by the misaligned resources spent on bad innovation that's challenging the human development. The solution lies by leveraging breakthroughs in technologies and sciences, along a paradigm shift in ventures capital funding, propelled by fourth industrial revolution, that enables equitable and sustainable innovation models. Moreover, the nature of innovation-driven development model demands a worldwide assessment and the reshaping of a leading innovation hubs, urgently of great relevance to ensure a better tomorrow.We are at the dawn of business management's first century. It is our challenge to capture the opportunity we have been given to ensure that those of us who seek to build the next big thing will have the how-to they need to impact the world positively, across tech, health, and science-based innovation. This book aligns "entrepreneurship, sustainable innovation, impact investing, and faster exit" to a rigorous footing, through emerging and proven practices, perfected by Silicon Valley's pioneers. It is a must have walkthrough "blueprint for founder seeking to launch, fund, grow or exit their startup"; along with investor, engineer, product developer; corporate "innovation, investment or acquisition leader", advisor, and academic lecturer; in need of expanding their horizons, on taking to market innovation with positive impact.It is an ideal reference manual, based on first-hand insider scope of thought leadership, packed with research from top tier institution with actionable insights on startup, corporate innovation and venture capital ecosystem showcasing a 360- degree cycle of innovation execution "masterfully crafted in a single volume of 400 pages illustrated with over 100 colorful graphs and charts"."We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes a touchstone of how we invent. " - Jeff Bezos This volume leverages the experience of prominent innovators by capturing past, current, and projected future technologies innovation, with deep dive on how innovation happens through each stage, and what to do or not to do during its execution. This shall be a prime source for anyone eager to understand or excel in innovation or venture capital.In The Future of Innovation, you'll learn how-to from "Idea to IPO" through five focus areas:What's Innovation, it's history, what's not innovation, and how to make idea disruptiveA deep dive into global innovation hubs and how to enables policies that drive impactWalkthrough on building innovation with future technology that's urgently needed nowLaunch a startup, grow and attract investors in a $30 trillion market (impact/ESG/SRI)When and how to exit (Acquisition, IPO or M&A), with do/don't execution roadmap"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done". - Two Nobel laureate Marie Curie