The past ten years are characterized by a strong growth in entrepreneurship and the accelerated creation of new businesses offering innovative products and services. The focus of this book is on startups and scaleups intending to scale their business through collaboration with corporates, primarily in the capacity of client or venture partner. No startup or scaleup can go-it-alone entirely and is required to collaborate with other partners to ensure growth. It is crucial for startups and scaleups to think beyond (corporate) venture capital financings and actively use a vast spectrum of corporate partnering arrangements to scale their business. This book thus takes an expansive approach and analyses corporate partnering transactions from a much broader perspective, covering several types of partnering models for collaboration between corporates and startups and scaleups, with a very strong focus on the perspective of the startups and scaleups while engaging in these types of transactions. ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Dessers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Cresco, is one of the go-to lawyers of the Belgian venture capital scene. David assists entrepreneurs and companies in the design and execution of their plans during all stages of the private company lifecycle, including seed and venture capital funding, acquisitions and dispositions, as well as equity incentive, contracting and intellectual property needs. He frequently represents venture capital funds and corporates in structuring, negotiating and closing investments and divestments in high-growth companies. David furthermore advises clients regularly with respect to complex commercial transactions designed to protect and maximize the value of technology assets, including technology licenses and acquisitions, research and development collaborations, and corporate partnering transactions. He obtained his law degree at the universities of Antwerp and Leuven in Belgium. He also holds an LLM from the universities of Oxford, Hamburg and Rotterdam. David is recommended as leading lawyer by Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Legal500 and IFLR1000 for Corporate and M&A, Banking, Finance and Capital Markets, and Information Technology. David has given workshops and seminars at leading corporates on a wide variety of topics, including corporate venturing transactions and alliances. He is an active speaker at incubation and acceleration organizations, such as imec.ventures, B-Hive.eu, Watt Factory, Tech Tour, Level Up and Antwerp Management School. David is a founding partner of Cresco, a premier Belgian law firm for entrepreneurs, companies and investors with market-leading capabilities and thorough experience in private equity and venture capital, emerging and growth companies, mergers and acquisitions, technology and innovation counseling, and complex corporate alliances and commercial agreements.

Business managers know that cost-cutting measures cannot create long-term growth--greater revenues require sustained innovation. In this book, Tucker provides a practical step-by-step method any business can use to identify opportunities and encourage innovations that capitalize on them.

Volume 12 of this annual series focuses on achieving improving innovation in organizations through collaboration. The chapters present a variety of methods and settings that explore ways that collaboration can be utilized to enable and enhance innovation.

Collaborative innovation networks are cyberteams of motivated individuals, and are self-organizing emergent social systems with the potential to promote health, happiness and individual growth in real-world work settings. This book describes how to identify and nurture collaborative innovation networks in order to shape the future working environment and pave the way for health and happiness, and how to develop future technologies to promote economic development, social innovation and entrepreneurship. The expert contributions and case studies presented also offer insights into how large corporations can creatively generate solutions to real-world problems by means of self-organizing mechanisms, while simultaneously promoting the well-being of individual workers. The book also discusses how such networks can benefit startups, offering new self-organizing forms of leadership in which all stakeholders are encouraged to collaborate in the development of new products.

In many ways, the process of innovation is a constant social dance, where the best dancers thrive by adapting new steps with multiple partners. The systematic and continuous generation of value in any innovation system relies on collaboration between different groups, who must overcome multiple, often competing agendas and needs to work together fruitfully over the long term. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, business leaders, and policymakers representing North America, Europe, India, Africa, and Australasia, this volume investigates different combinations of collaborative arrangements among innovation actors, many of which are changing conventional expectations of institutional relationships. Collectively, the authors demonstrate that no particular combination has emerged as the most dominant, or even resilient, model of innovation. Several authors expand on our understanding of the triple helix model, with both academics and practitioners looking to the quadruple helix (encompassing business, academic, government, and civil society) as the new standard. Other authors address aspects of open innovation, co-creation, and user-centered design—all testaments to the rapidly shifting landscape. At the same time, many businesses, academics, and governments, not to mention non-profit organizations, foundations, and society at large, are active in conversations about how to pursue a more sustainable model of innovation. The pursuit of this holy grail of innovation is both facilitated and complicated by an ever-accelerating technological environment in which social networking and mobile tools are emerging as new dance arenas.

Professor, author, researcher and couple and family therapist Saliha Bava, PhD, and her husband, author and illustrator Mark Greene share the core ideas of relational thinking through comics, fables and powerful articles, charting a playful and transformative path to growing our children's relational intelligence."Growing our children's relationship super powers is the joyful cure for what ails our angry, disconnected culture."-Micheal Kasdan, The Good Men Project"Life-changing, culture-shaping ideas ... I was smiling, highlighting, imagining how I could use this to equip teachers and parents with new insights and understandings and SUPER POWERS. The theory masterfully bridges what I know from my work as an early childhood teacher right through to my new field of guidance and counseling."-Bronwyn Leiataua