venture capital, innovation models, research management, corporate research After carefully evaluating a variety of mechanisms to leverage the world class Venture Capital (VC) firms in the vicinity of Hewlett-Packard's Silicon Valley headquarters, Hewlett-Packard Labs (hpl.hp.com) and the venture capital firm Foundation Capital (www.foundationcapital.com) entered into a strategic relationship. ...

for energy saving retrofit projects, its economics are usually evaluated in terms of capital investment and payback time. the capital investment is in direct relation to the total heat recovery area of the network and the payback time factor is base on both the area and the energy savings. the debottlenecking is an increased throughput, which can be profitable in economic sense. the combination...

This paper explores the productivity differential between return migrants (“Sea Turtles”) and non-migrants through a case study of China’s venture capital (VC) industry. I find that even after correcting for selection bias, return venture capitalists are less productive than comparable non-migrants in targeting promising projects and/or providing value-added services. Given that the VC industry...

Both intellectual capital (IC) and knowledge management (KM) have been recognised as significant resources, when properly managed should enhance competitiveness, sustainability and performance. IC comprises the human, organisational and relational capital or resources. KM is about the ‘flow of knowledge’ from individual learning to organisational learning through KM processes to enhance organis...

Conception of human capital is not entirely original, but it has achieved enormous success among international institutions and western governments, not only because it propose a strategy of permanent development as its advocates suggests, but because economical justifies education; what is in the eyes of decision makers only valid justification. It seems that globalization of on-line education...

This paper investigates venture capitalists' monitoring of managerial behaviour by examining their impact on CEO pay-performance sensitivity across various controlling structures in Chinese firms. We find that the effectiveness of venture capitalists' monitoring depends on different types of agency conflict. In particular, we find that venture capital (VC) monitoring is hampered in firms that e...

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) have an important impact on the development of new economy but SMEs have a need for venture capital (VC) and initial public offerings (IPOs) in order to grow. Therefore, It is very important to know how owners, managers and employees in the SMEs perceive the VC and IPOs in Turkey. A questionnaire is developed to understand these types of perceptions via ...

Jakarta Bay is the storefront for maritime activities in Indonesia. Littering a significant problem development of Jakarta. Although has large social capital, actualisation capital solving waste still not widely known. This study analyses strategy implementing people handling plastic from perspective environmental security. The used descriptive qualitative method. Data were collected through ob...

One of the concerns for economical production of ethanol from biomass is the large volume and high cost of the cellulolytic enzymes used to convert biomass into fermentable sugars. The presence of acetyl groups in hemicellulose and lignin in plant cell walls reduces accessibility of biomass to the enzymes and makes conversion a slow process. In addition to low enzyme accessibility, a rapid deac...