Social Venture Partners: Engaging a New Generation of Givers

Podcasting and Vidcasting – Delivering Engaging Learning to a New Generation

Podcasting and vidcasting have become the new hot topic in education, with services such as Apple’s iTunes U making it easy for Universities in particular to promote their courses to a wider audience. Standford University in the US has led this new wave of technology, even going so far as to “provide...downloads of faculty lectures, campus events, performances, book readings, music recorded by ...

The Use and Effect of Social Capital in New Venture Creation – Solo Entrepreneurs vs. New Venture Teams

This paper examines the use of social capital in the venture creation process. We compare solo entrepreneurs (n=182) and new venture teams (n=274) from a random sample of start-ups in innovative industries and test social capital use and its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that solo entrepreneurs and new venture teams do not differ in their degree of use of social capital. Howev...

Institutional Polycentrism, Entrepreneurs’ Social Networks, and New Venture Growth

Nanobody as a new generation of functional proteins

Nanobody (Nb) or VHH is the smallest binding domain of camelid heavy chain antibody (HcAb). Light chains of HcAb naturally removed and because of some evolutionary changes, Nbs have unique properties rather than conventional antibodies. The size of Nb is about one-tenth (0.1) of whole antibodies and this size improved some problems of four chains antibodies such as high yield of expression in p...

A NEW GENERATION OF OXYNITRIDE GLASSES CONTAINING FLUORINE

Oxynitride glasses are found as grain boundary phases in silicon nitride ceramics. They are effectively alumino-silicate glasses in which nitrogen substitutes for oxygen in the glass network, and this causes increases in glass transition and softening temperatures, viscosities (by two to three orders of magnitude), elastic moduli and microhardness. Calcium silicate-based glasses containing fluo...