It has been proposed that a key success factor for entrepreneurial start-up companies in dynamic industries is their capacity to continuously adapt their business opportunistically. However, the concept of opportunistic adaptation is in need of further development and clarification in order to make it possible to empirically test its usefulness, something that this far has been done only to a l...

Trial start up is a frenetic time for any trial manager: once a trial has been funded the clock is ticking to get the first participant recruited. There are a number of key activities that need to happen during this stage, so developing standardised processes to help improve effectiveness can make the system more efficient, and help promote best practice. Three of the key processes that have be...

Experiments are described in which the start-up voltage in a tokamak is reduced by about a factor of two by the use of a modest amount of electron cyclotron resonance heating power for pre-ionization. The solution of the zero-dimensional start-up equations indicates that the effect is due to the high initial density which increases the rate at which the conductivity increases in the neutral-dom...

The NEMO collaboration is looking to measure neutrinoless double beta decay down to a lower limit of 0.1 eV for the effective neutrino mass. The NEMO 3 detector is now operating in the Fréjus Underground Laboratory. The expected performance and the data of the first runs are presented here.

In the study, we propose the Associated Probability Intuitionistic Fuzzy Weighted Averaging (As-P-IFWA) and the Associated Probability Intuitionistic Fuzzy Weighted Geometric (As-P-IFWG) aggregation operators with associated probabilities of a fuzzy measure presenting an uncertainty. Decision makers' evaluations are given as intuitionistic fuzzy values and are used as the arguments of the aggre...

Launching a new enterprise—whether it’s a tech start-up, a small business, or an initiative within a large corporation—has always been a hit-or-miss proposition. According to the decades-old formula, you write a business plan, pitch it to investors, assemble a team, introduce a product, and start selling as hard as you can. And somewhere in this sequence of events, you’ll probably suffer a fata...

In this paper, we introduce and study a new acceptance / rejection rule suitable for use in start up demonstration tests. According to this rule, the equipment is accepted if k consecutive successes occur, while the equipment is rejected if two failures separated by at most 2 − r successes are observed. General formulae and analytic expressions are given for the probability mass function, the m...

Author experiences from working jointly and within startups inform this chapter. Emphasizing the importance of employees achieving unprecedented productivity through working collaboratively and supported by flexible roles and social technologies cannot be understated. Startup employees led by the entrepreneur are masters of embracing complexity. This means the startup team understands cause and...