Role of venture capital and startup co-evolution in entrepreneurial ecosystems:case Stockholm

Abstract. The topic of this thesis is role of venture capital and startup co-evolution in entrepreneurial ecosystems. Among the reasons for the topic selection are the importance of high-growth entrepreneurship for the economy. Even though the importance is widely acknowledged, the researchers and practioners have issues in recognising why certain areas gives certain results. Therefore, this study collected, analysed and utilised literature on entrepreneurial ecosystems and generational units, collective memories and identities. The reason for this selection was made to understand entrepreneurial ecosystems and how the actors in the ecosystem shape it during and after the emergence process. The study utilised qualitative research design as its methodological choice. An extensive case study was conducted. The selection to utilise case study research was made, because it enables to understand complex and historical processes, hence the methodological choice was well aligned with the purpose of the study. The integration of entrepreneurial ecosystems and generational units’ literature was found to be relevant theoretical choice, because the study was able to show that the main actors (Venture capitalists and startups) have significant role in transforming the suitable conditions into concrete high-growth ventures. The results of the study propose that the characteristics of an ecosystem develops over time as an outcome of the interplay between actors and context

Science and Applications Space Platform (SASP) End-to-End Data System Study

The capability of present technology and the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) to accommodate Science and Applications Space Platforms (SASP) payload user's requirements, maximum service to the user through optimization of the SASP Onboard Command and Data Management System, and the ability and availability of new technology to accommodate the evolution of SASP payloads were assessed. Key technology items identified to accommodate payloads on a SASP were onboard storage devices, multiplexers, and onboard data processors. The primary driver is the limited access to TDRSS for single access channels due to sharing with all the low Earth orbit spacecraft plus shuttle. Advantages of onboard data processing include long term storage of processed data until TRDSS is accessible, thus reducing the loss of data, eliminating large data processing tasks at the ground stations, and providing a more timely access to the data

Spartan Daily, May 8, 1998

Volume 110, Issue 69https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9285/thumbnail.jp

Spartan Daily, May 8, 1998

Volume 110, Issue 69https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9285/thumbnail.jp

The sexualisation of popular culture: towards a Christian sexual aesthetic

For roughly the last decade, North American sexual mores have undergone an intriguing and paradoxical transformation. This change can be witnessed in both mainline evangelicalism as well as within mainstream American popular culture. While parachurch organisations push for youth-abstinence and argue for increasingly more stringent sexual norms for teens and young adults, popular culture has evinced an increasingly more liberalised understanding of sexuality, including the popularisation of figures and images from adult media and increasingly explicit sexual references in popular music. Though both trends appear to convey antithetical sexual mores, I will argue that underneath these contrasting surface appearances their common fascination with sexual experience reflects an unhealthy trend in both popular culture and popular church towards a privatised and disembodied sexuality. For the Church to respond to an increasingly sexualised culture, it must address her own understanding of human sexuality and the body first. My thesis is a simple one: human sexual experience has become a commodity, a privately consumed good, which is alienated from either the human body or social community

The State of the Region: Hampton Roads 2000

Those who know and love the region of Hampton Roads wish to make it an even better place to live than it is currently. In order for us to achieve that end, we must know literally where we are in critical areas. This first State of the Region Report is designed to provide citizens with a detailed, though not burdensome, look at several critical aspects of the lives we live in Hampton Roads. The Report focuses on topics such as the regional economy (including the tourist and military sectors), the workforce, K-12 education, technology, and of course, government and regional cooperation.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/economics_books/1018/thumbnail.jp

"Innovation and Growth: A Schumpeterian Model of Innovation"

Following Schumpeter we assume that innovation in specific firms, or groups of firms, can have economy-wide effects. Models based on this idea can be shown to have multiple equilibria. The idea of a positive feedback loop innovation system or POLIS is formalized by picking an appropriate sequence of equilibria over time. It is shown that POLIS has empirical relevance by applying the formal model to an actual economy. The 1997-98 financial crisis in many Asian countries, most notably South Korea, seemed to have reversed the conventional wisdom regarding the East Asian miracle". This paper applies the concept of a POLIS to the case of Taiwan to show that at least in this case, neither the view that the miracle was a mirage nor the view that the growth was a result of factor accumulation only is correct. Ultimately technological transformation - in particular the creation of a positive feedback loop innovation system is what makes the difference between sustained growth and gradual or sudden decline. Although various problems remain in both the real and the financial sectors, the successes of Taiwan in building the preconditions for an innovation system are worth examining. Upon careful examination of Taiwan's system of innovation within the above Schumpeterian model it is found that Taiwan has a fighting chance of building a POLIS in the near future. An interesting feature of the Taiwan POLIS is the modular organizational architecture of some of the high technology firms in Hsinchu science-based industrial park and other centers.