Chapter 11 examines the critical role of an exit strategy in enabling business owners and founders to make informed decisions, monitor key valuation metrics, and attract investors throughout various stages of the venture life cycle – launch, scale-up, re-scale, and scale-down. The chapter...

As the climate warms, there has been mounting pressure on surface and groundwater resources in many irrigated agricultural regions. Farmers have no choice but to change their production and water use practices. Some of those changes motivate transformations to more sustainable water use, while...

This chapter investigates the geography of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in Europe and their urban genesis based on a patent data analysis that combines a textual approach with the browsing of technological classification codes. Specifically, the chapter advances the hypothesis that,...

Converting the paradigm of linear production into circular production is an enormous challenge whose implementation requires the intervention and collaboration of all the actors that make up the ecosystem. In this context, university students are privileged actors, as they may become future...

Functional income distribution is at the heart of Michal Kalecki's theory of the business cycle: firms’ pricing power on product markets and the relative bargaining strength of workers and capital owners determine the equilibrium wage share. This chapter analyses this proposition in light of...

Einleitung -- Führung von Mitarbeitern -- Motivation -- Mindset -- Vom Spitzensport lernen -- Mentale Stärke -- Besser konzentrieren: Wie komme ich in den Flow?- Bedeutung der Selbstfürsorge und mentaler Gesundheit -- Stressbewältigung und Resilienz aufbauen -- Schlusswort.

In this chapter, we aim to construct a theoretical framework to promote citizen involvement in public policy and human development by taking social capital as our reference point. The literature on social capital and human development stresses the critical role of citizen involvement in...

The present work evaluates the evolution of productivity in Brazil from 2000 to 2018, using the vertically integrated approach (Pasinetti, 1981) to input–output decomposition instead of the traditional Leontief approach. This allows us to consider production as the outcome of vertically...