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With LEAP business strategy game, educators and companies have gotten a tool that will frame, inspire and engage the participants' discussions while developing innovative business models -ready for the real world.

Business. --- Ondernemen. --- Ondernemerschapspel. --- Start Up.

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This comprehensive Practical Guide provides direction on the wide array of legal questions and challenges that start-ups face. Start-up Law features analysis from five jurisdictions that represent a variety of legal traditions across different continents. Expert contributors address key legal issues for technology-based start-ups and entrepreneurs, as well as providing insights into the law and practice of the countries examined. Key features include: a focus on the complete life cycle of a start-up, from innovative idea through growth of the business to success or failure; specific, in-depth analysis of law relating to start-up businesses in Denmark, Canada, Israel, Switzerland and the United States; guidance aimed at helping start-ups and entrepreneurs navigate the diverse legal and regulatory hurdles they may encounter, including practical insights from expert contributors with first hand industry experience. Start-up Law will prove crucial reading for lawyers advising technology start-ups, as well as entrepreneurs themselves in this sector. It will also be useful for scholars and students in business and commercial law, as well as policy-makers interested in providing a supportive regulatory environment for innovation and start-ups.

New business enterprises --- Law and legislation. --- Start-up --- innovation --- Start-up life cycle --- entrepreneurship --- Start-up law book

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This report explores major factors causing schedule delays and problems often experienced in constructing and starting up new process plants. It quantifies the key factors driving construction and startup schedules as well as the costs of startup. Several factors critically affecting these outcomes reflect strategic decisions about how individual projects should be managed. The findings indicate that (1) construction schedule slippage is associated with poor project definition at the start of detailed engineering, planned long concurrency between detailed engineering and construction, and the use of unrefined solid feedstocks; (2) total startup time can be determined by the number of commercially unproven process steps, the portion of the plant heat and material balances based on previous commercial units, and whether the plant processes an unrefined solid feedstock; (3) placing responsibility for the project in a team composed of representatives from each of the corporate divisions, rather than dispersing responsibility across them, appears to result in better communication and shorter startups; and (4) startup costs as a percentage of total costs are closely related to the number of new process steps, the extent of materials-handling problems encountered during process development, and whether the plant processes an unrefined solid feedstock.

Project management. --- Production scheduling. --- Start-up costs.

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"Entrepreneurship is not a calling only for the selected few. Creative work and economic self-realization are goals that anyone can pursue. Learn how to create your own "idea-masterpiece" as a collage or puzzle made from existing pieces, and construct your own company from pre-existing components that are freely available to everyone. Brains versus Capital: Entrepreneurship for Everyone opens up many channels of opportunity for many people who never thought that they would start their own company. This book emphasizes knowledge-based start-ups, which offers a crucial difference to classic self-employment and the new technology based start-ups. Günther Faltin has been teaching this approach for decades, and he has applied his theoretical concept with great success to "The Tea Campaign" (Teekampagne), the largest mail-order tea company in Germany. A growing number of companies uses Professor Faltin's principles successfully. Featuring practical examples of successful companies, Günther Faltin shows how anyone can refine an idea to create a new company. By combining components that already exist, a small start-up founder could even challenge the big companies"--

New business enterprises. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Start-up --- Entrepreneuriat

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In the 2000s, a new business incubation model has emerged in the United States to meet the current needs of start-up: the start-up accelerators. Ten years later, the world is witnessing their
multiplication by hundreds. They are the new hype. In Belgium and more particularly in Wallonia, public authorities took an interest on this new model and set it up as a driving force to develop the regional economy.
What about the performance of these structures? How are they evaluated? Which KPIs do they use to assess their performance? Do they have an impact on the development of the economic activities of our country?
The main goal of this dissertation is to understand how the start-up accelerators' performance is evaluated both from the public authorities standpoint and from the point of view of start-up accelerators themselves.
After having analysed the scientific literature, eleven actors linked to the Walloon start-up accelerators have been interviewed. The choice of multi-perspectives actors has enabled the author to understand the functioning of the existing structures in Wallonia. A comparison between the methods that have been found in other countries and the results of the study has been made in order to try to give potential solutions that respond to our leading question research.
The results of this master thesis may turn out to be interesting for start-up accelerators that would like to assess their performance but also for public authorities that are searching to do the same with the goal of allocating funding in a better way.

Start-up --- Accélérateur de start-up --- Performance --- Evaluation --- Incubateur --- Indicateurs --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Comptabilité & audit