Beyond Electric Dreams: Instituting a DAM Program Where it is Needed But Maybe Not Wanted

Digital content is created every second of everyday and can be found everywhere. And the need to preserve this content, as well as the have it available to your students, patrons, or faculty and staff is at a premium while budgets for DAM dwindle. And while the need and want for DAM is often there, the drive and funds to make it a reality sometimes is not. This presentation will cover one such DAM implementation project at a Fortune 500 company, beginning with the vetting and purchasing of a DAM system through implementation and show how the lessons from its successes and failures can be used in preserving assets in the academic world

On IP and secrecy Management for Innovation : the relevance of intellectual property rights to design-led start-up businesses

In their book, ‘The Smart Entrepreneur’, Clarysse and Kiefer claim that ‘Patents are particularly important when your business is not close to market, because the exclusivity afforded by a solid patent can buy you some time by preventing competitors from encroaching on your idea while you develop applications.’ (p.127) The UK Design Council on the other hand suggests to ‘Approach patenting with caution. Multinational cover is expensive and premature filing can do more harm than good’ (www.designcouncil.org.uk). Clarysse and Kiefer admit that ‘…a patent suit can cost $10-15 million and drag on for several years’ (p.93). This beckons the question what is the best IP strategy for a design-led start-up. Clarysse, Kiefer also explain how the lack of complimentary assets can hinder an entrepreneur’s market entry, and how “bottlenecks” in the value chain can be by-passed through focusing on niche markets (Clarysse, Kiefer, 2011, p.72ff). Here Clarysse, Kiefer expand on Teece’s understanding of complimentary assets, which are thought of as the “additional resources and capabilities needed to bring a technology product to market” (Clarysse / Kiefer, 2011, p.80). Back in 1986 Teece analysed how these assets can increase a company’s chance to succeed in the industry. David Teece has further defined appropriability as “the environmental factors… that govern an innovator’s ability to capture the profits generated by an innovation.” (Teece, 1986, p.287) He refers to IP as one of the most important factors in relation to appropriability. In search for an answer to the question whether or not a patent constitutes an effective means for start-ups to overcome competition, this paper will show a range of case studies of award winning British designs including the SEA Interface, a patent-pending platform technology for building pressure-sensitive touch interfaces, Cupris, a smartphone-enabled clinical device that transmits data between patients and healthcare practitioners, Yossarian Lives, a novel metaphor-based database search engine, and Arctica, a highly sustainable ventilation system. The inventors of these technologies will be interviewed in relation to their IP strategy, and in relation to their personal views on the international patenting system. The comparative study of semistructured qualitiative interviews will help identify the best approach to IP protection for design entrepreneurs whose funds are limited. Through reconciling the seemingly opposed views expressed by the Design Council Design Council on the one hand, and Clarysse and Kiefer on the other, this paper will discuss how designers can optimize the form and timing for IP protection for their start-up businesses. The author has previously received a business development award from NESTA (The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), and was subsequently involved in the Design London business incubator scheme, which was the birthplace of some of the ventures listed above. He is now studying for PhD at the Department for Service Design at the Royal College of Art in London, UK.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

Expanding Research and Analysis for Community Foundations - A Field-Wide Study

As part of the long-term research agenda of the Community Foundations Leadership Team of the Council on Foundations, FSG recently surveyed the field to better understand:- recent challenges to the economic sustainability of community foundations,- the use of cost-revenue studies, and- the extent of interest in gathering more consistent and timely benchmarking data about community foundation finances and operations.Based on a survey of nearly 250 community foundation CEOs and CFOs as well as in-depth interviews with leaders in the community foundation field, this presentation summarizes our learnings

Fueling Impact: A Fresh Look at Business Model Innovation and New Revenue Sources

Do you want to know how community foundations are finding innovative new sources of support, and diversifying their revenue base? How new revenue sources strengthen each community foundation's differentiation and sustainability?Difficult economic times in 2008-2010 have been an important wake-up call -- a reminder that diversifying revenue sources is an essential component of a strong business model

Homer Foundation - 2007 Annual Report

Contains mission statement, director's message, program information, financial statements, reports from the distributions and investment committees, grants list, donor information, and list of board members

RBF approximation by partition of unity for valuation of options under exponential Lévy processes

International audienceThe prices of some European and American-style contracts on assets driven by a class of Markov processes containing, in particular, L\'{e}vy processes of pure jump type with infinite jump activity, are obtained numerically, as solutions of the partial integro-differential equations (PIDEs) they satisfy. This paper overcomes the ill-conditioning inherent in global meshfree methods by using localized RBF approximations known as the RBF partition of unity (RBF-PU) method for (PIDEs) arising in option pricing problems in L\'{e}vy driven assets. Then, Crank-Nicolson, LeapFrog (CNLF) is applied for time discretization. We treat the local term using an implicit step, and the nonlocal term using an explicit step, to avoid the inversion of the nonsparse matrix. For dealing with early exercise feature of American option and solving free boundary problem we use the implicit-explicit method combined with a penalty method. Efficiency and practical performance are demonstrated by numerical experiments for pricing European and American contracts. Suggested reviewers Mohan Kadalbajoo, Mehdi Dehghan, simon hubbert Submission Files Included in this PDF File Name [File Type] cover letter.pdf [Cover Letter] Research Highlights.pdf [Highlights] Levy_Fereshtian.pdf [Manuscript File] Submission Files Not Included in this PDF File Name [File Type] Paper_Levy.zip [LaTeX Source File] To view all the submission files, including those not included in the PDF, click on the manuscript title on your EVISE Homepage, then click 'Download zip file'