A radical new perspective on innovation to help aspiring entrepreneurs avoid common pitfalls One of the biggest problems faced by entrepreneurs and corporate executives alike is the conflation of entrepreneurship with innovation. The quest for innovation is often misguided by a variety of mantras, clichés and proclamations, often infused with notions of disruption and delusions of grandeur. Beyond Eureka! debunks the myths and conventional wisdom surrounding innovation, revealing its complex, non-linear nature and identifying ways to avoid common pitfalls. Serial entrepreneur Delbourg-Delphis first defines innovation as the implementation of something new that is developed for and commercialized in a marketplace. She uses various case studies—-both smaller scale and well-known—to unpack the common misconceptions surrounding innovation and guide entrepreneurs through the uncertainty of innovating in a potential market rather than a pre-existing one. Beyond Eureka! brings a new perspective to understanding the nature and practice of innovation based on the author's extensive experience, historical knowledge, and conceptual analysis. Innovators, whether entrepreneurs or the strategic leadership teams of established companies, will benefit from the insights and guidance.

"This tour-de-force of the history of the implementation of innovation seeks to address one of the biggest problems faced by entrepreneurs and corporate executives alike: the conflation of entrepreneurship with innovation. They are not the same, and they each come with their own challenges and opportunities. Starting a business is not the same as innovating a new product or service. Many books explain how to pitch, start and scale a company, as well as how to structure engineering, product, sales, marketing, and financial departments. It's implied that the company has a product or a service that has enough differentiators for the organization to succeed in the marketplace and that its founders and teams will thereby automatically be perceived as innovators. People get their understanding of what innovating means from various informal and formal sources, but it's when they get into creating something novel, whether a new product, conceptual breakthrough or business model, that they truly begin to reflect on what they thought they knew. It is then that they often become confused by the conventional wisdom. Silicon Valley pioneer and serial entrepreneur Marylene Delbourg-Delphis answers the most important questions about innovation that she has been asked by other founders and CEOs over the years. Packed with the benefits of hands-on experience, historical knowledge, and conceptual analysis, this book is a critical foundation for innovators, whether entrepreneurs or the strategic leadership teams of established companies, including heads of sales, marketing, operations, and product development"--

With appendices.

With appendices, which include also "Annual report on the statistics of railways..." and "Preliminary report on the income account of railways."

Scholarly editions contextualize our cultural heritage. Traditionally, methodologies from the field of scholarly editing are applied to works of literature, e.g. in order to trace their genesis or present their varied history of transmission. What do we make of the variance in other types of cultural heritage? How can we describe, record, and reproduce it systematically? From medieval to modern times, from image to audiovisual media, the book traces discourses across different disciplines in order to develop a conceptual model for scholarly editions on a broader scale. By doing so, it also delves into the theory and philosophy of the (digital) humanities as such.

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