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Innovative Finance for Technological Progress: Roles of Fintech, Financial Instruments, and Institutions (Banking, Money and International Finance)
by Naoyuki Yoshino Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary Roohallah AboojafariInnovative businesses and startups contribute to job creation, economic growth, and technological advancement in most countries. Finance helps nurture innovative firms like startups. Unfortunately, most startups and innovative projects cannot secure finance through the usual and conventional methods. This book goes beyond traditional financing to explore innovative ways to help finance startups and novel businesses. The book covers institutional innovation, innovation in products and processes, and the recent progress in financial innovations in various countries through empirical and case studies. It gives an in-depth look at regulatory, policy frameworks, and risk assessments for financial innovations. It also assesses the role of various innovations, including Fintech, machine learning, big data, scoring models, credit databases, digital platforms, credit guarantees in funding startups, and novel technologies. This book offers valuable insights into how policymakers can nurture a more conducive ecosystem for startups and technologies through innovative finance.
Innovative Financing for Development
by Dilip Ratha Suhas KetkarDeveloping countries need additional, cross-border capital channeled into their private sectors to generate employment and growth, reduce poverty, and meet the other Millennium Development Goals. Innovative financing mechanisms are necessary to make this happen. 'Innovative Financing for Development' is the first book on this subject that uses a market-based approach. It compiles pioneering methods of raising development finance including securitization of future flow receivables, diaspora bonds, and GDP-indexed bonds. It also highlights the role of shadow sovereign ratings in facilitating access to international capital markets. It argues that poor countries, especially those in Sub-Saharan Africa, can potentially raise tens of billions of dollars annually through these instruments. The chapters in the book focus on the structures of the various innovative financing mechanisms, their track records and potential for tapping international capital markets, the constraints limiting their use, and policy measures that governments and international institutions can implement to alleviate these constraints.
Innovative Fiscal Policy and Economic Development in Transition Economies (Routledge Studies In The Modern World Economy Ser. #88)
by Aleksandr V GevorkyanThis book explores the problems of fiscal policy as an instrument of economic and social development in the modern environment, primarily focusing on the transition economies of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia. Evaluating the transformational experience in these countries, this work meets a need for a critical analysis in the aftermath of the 1990s market liberalization reforms, of current trends and to outline the roadmap for future development.
Innovative Gesundheitsversorgung und Market Access: Beiträge Für Entscheider Und Akteure
by Mario A. Pfannstiel Patrick Da-Cruz Roger JaeckelDieses Fachbuch beschäftigt sich mit innovativen Gesundheitsversorgungsangeboten und dem Markzugang von Produkten und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen. Die Autoren behandeln das Thema aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Die Themenschwerpunkte werden durch die sieben nachfolgenden Perspektiven gebildet: Politik und Institutionen, innovative Arzneimittelversorgung und AMNOG, innovative Medizinprodukteversorgung, Vergütung innovativer Gesundheitsleistungen, neue Therapie- und Versorgungsformen und Digital Health. Der Sammelband richtet sich einerseits an Wissenschaftler und Studierende mit den Schwerpunktfächern Gesundheitsökonomie bzw. -politik, Gesundheitsmanagement, Marketing und andererseits an Praktiker und Berater im Gesundheitsmarkt, wie z.B. Geschäftsführer, Verbandsvertreter und gesundheitspolitisch verantwortliche Entscheidungsträger.
Innovative Humanitarian Financing: Case Studies of Funding Models (Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance)
by Maram AhmedHumanitarian crises have become more frequent, complex and protracted. If current trends continue, it is estimated that by 2030, humanitarian assistance costs could increase to $50 billion per year. By then, two-thirds of the world’s poor are at risk of living in conflict-affected countries. To bridge the gap, humanitarian organizations are increasingly utilizing innovative financing tools such as impact bonds, faith-based finance and other innovative financial products and services to mobilize greater funding to address humanitarian needs. This book is among the first to assess a set of innovative financing mechanisms that have been transforming the humanitarian sector and explores their key opportunities, challenges and future prospects. This book will be of interest to academics, practitioners, humanitarian organizations and policy makers involved in humanitarian financing and to the humanitarian sector in general.
Innovative Infrastructure Finance: A Guide for State and Local Governments
by Can Chen John R. BartleInfrastructure is the foundation of modern economies. A robust, efficient, and well-maintained infrastructure system is critical to support the nation’s economy, improve quality of life, and strengthen global competitiveness. The serious infrastructure deficit in the U.S. is well-known. State and local governments are struggling to finance the needed expansion, upgrades, and repairs. Meeting the infrastructure financing challenge has emerged as one of the most urgent issues facing the country. Despite the growing number of innovations in state and local infrastructure financing, current information on innovative infrastructure financing is scattered and time-consuming to find. Until now, there was no detailed, comprehensive assessment of current knowledge and practice in innovative infrastructure financing. This book fills that gap and offers policy suggestions for state and local government managers who are considering the adoption and implementation of innovative infrastructure financing. It provides detailed case studies and rich examples that describe innovative approaches to fund state and local infrastructure development. These experiences and lessons in applying these innovations will be particularly useful for state and local government practitioners, professors, applied policy analysts, and students in public administration, policy, and public finance.
Innovative Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Leading Sustainable Innovation in Your Organization
by David S. Weiss Claude LegrandInnovation is a key source of competitive advantage, but it remains frustratingly elusive for many organizations. This book shows you how to close the innovation gap by making individuals and organizations systematically and sustainably innovative. You will learn how to embrace a culture of innovation and make it permeate every level of the organization. You will find a clear road map and practical tools to redefine your workplace's culture, identify and tap into the existing innovative intelligence, and develop leaders who can close the innovation gap for greater business success.
Innovative Korea: Leveraging Innovation and Technology for Development
by Anwar Aridi Hoon Sahib Soh Youngsun KohThe Republic of Korea today is a highly industrialized, global leader in innovation and technology. It is the 10th largest economy in the world and has a per capita income approaching the average of OECD countries. In the 1950s, however, it was one of the world’s poorest countries, with decidedly bleak prospects. Its transformation has made Korea a well-known case study of successful development. Innovative Korea: Leveraging Innovation and Technology for Development summarizes the sources of Korea’s remarkable growth and the policies and institutional reforms that made it possible. The report focuses on Korea’s successful transition from a middle-income to a high-income economy. Korea escaped from the “middle-income trap†? by fundamentally transforming its growth paradigm to a more private-sector-led model emphasizing market competition, innovation, and technology. Compared to the previous emphasis on large fi rms and industries, the government became more focused on promoting small and medium enterprises and technology entrepreneurs. Exports expanded significantly through greater integration in global value chains. Already-high levels of human capital development were complemented by an expanded social safety net and a more integrated approach to education and training. Korea succeeded by focusing on the foundations of long-run growth, building global capabilities in innovation and technology, and adapting and evolving its growth paradigm to promote new sources of growth. Innovative Korea, jointly prepared by the World Bank and the Korea Development Institute, provides useful insights on Korea’s development story and practical lessons for public policy making.
Innovative Law and Business in the Digital Era: Enhancing Financial, Technological, and Legal Literacy for a Sustainable Education
by Hashem AlshurafatThis book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection of such critical areas of knowledge as law, business, and technological innovation. As the digital revolution transforms industries, this book provides scholars, professionals, and students with critical insights into how legal frameworks and business strategies can adapt to foster sustainable growth. With a focus on improving financial, technological, and legal literacy, the book explores the challenges and opportunities in the business environment that can lead to a sustainable education for future generations. The book covers a wide range of topics essential to navigating the complexities of today's digital landscape, from regulatory compliance in emerging technologies to sustainable business models and innovation-driven markets. Written by leading experts, this book offers theoretical and practical perspectives on integrating sustainability, innovation, and legal expertise into business practices. This book is essential for readers who want to understand how law and business can work together to shape a future driven by innovation and ethical principles.
Innovative Leadership in Times of Compelling Changes: Strategies, Reflections and Tools (Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership)
by Joan MarquesThis book focuses on the need of leaders in professional and personal realms to understand the importance of innovative thinking to safeguard sustainability and enhance satisfaction and motivation among stakeholders in organizations. It provides professionals with a set of reflective stances, cautionary points, and roadmaps that enable them to do the right thing. From crisis management to spiritual practices, and from pro-social concepts to social responsibility and sustainability: the common denominator is a collective and concerted effort to develop leadership behaviors and strategies to safeguard generations to come.
Innovative Logistics Services and Sustainable Lifestyles: Interdependencies, Transformation Strategies and Decision Making
by Ani Melkonyan Klaus KrummeThis edited volume aims to describe the transformation of supply chain management (SCM) and logistics services by merging sustainable logistics, SCM, sustainable consumption and lifestyle research. This assessment of the transformation potential serves the development of sustainable business models and optimized decision-making systems for achieving sustainable economic value creation within a green economy. In 5 sections, the volume takes a unique transdisciplinary approach to assess sustainable business practices within SCM and the logistics sector, and to understand the interactions between logistics services and consumer lifestyles while creating transparency within the decision making process. This book will be of particular interest to academics, policymakers, planners, and politicians. Section 1 introduces readers to the importance of blended research and innovation between sustainable SCM and consumer lifestyles for transformation towards a green economy. Section 2 addresses the question of how trends and developments in consumption behavior and lifestyles influence the development of sustainable logistics. Section 3 discusses the transformation potential towards sustainable logistics using the food sector as an example. Section 4 focuses on strategic decision making in SCM, and how long-term improvements of sustainability performance can be achieved. Section 5 concludes with policy recommendations as well as research and innovation perspectives for future sustainable development with SCM and logistics.
Innovative Management And Firm Performance
by Maja Levi Jakšić Slađana Barjaktarović Rakočević Milan MartićThis book focuses on business firms as catalysts and agents of social and economic change, and explores the argument that sustainable development is the perfect opportunity for businesses to strengthen the evolving notion of corporate social responsibility, while achieving long-term growth through innovation, research and development.
Innovative Management in Information and Production
by Junzo Watada Bing Xu Berlin WuInnovative Management in Information and Production is based on the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Innovative Management, Information and Production. This symposium is held by International Society of Management Engineers. The symposium took place on October 8-10, in HCMC, Vietnam. This book examines recent innovative management of information and productions such as digital collection management and operations planning, scheduling and control.
Innovative Marketing Communications: Strategies For The Events Industry (Events Management)
by Emma Wood Guy MastermanInnovative Marketing Communications for Events Management provides students and event managers with a complete insight into the strategic and innovative marketing of events of all scales and nature. The book builds a conceptual framework for the development, planning, implementation and evaluation of innovative communication strategies for the marketing of events, and the effective use of events as an innovative communications method in general organizational marketing.With a strong practical underpinning, Innovative Marketing Communications for Events Management emphasises to event managers the importance of effectively integrating a range of tools and techniques to communicate the event and provides them with a better understanding of how a variety of private and public sector organisations can use events within their communication strategies.
Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries (Research for Development)
by Corinna Rossi Cinzia Talamo Stefano Della Torre Niccolò Aste Rajendra Singh AdhikariThis open access book explores key issues and presents recent case studies in areas of importance for the transition to a circular model of development in emerging African countries that will minimize resource consumption and waste production. The topics covered include the development of sustainable housing models, energy and environmental issues in building design and technical systems, recycling for a sustainable future, models for humanitarian emergencies, and low-cost and web-based digital tools with applications in architecture and archaeology. The aim is to contribute to a necessary paradigm shift with respect to urban planning and usage of territories, moving from a linear urban metabolism based on the “take, make, dispose” approach to a circular metabolism. Such a change requires a focus on the relationship between the architectural, urban, and physical aspects of new developments, climate, and energy demand, as well as the identification and integration of strategies and infrastructures to achieve a high level of efficiency and self-sufficiency. The book will appeal to all with an interest in sustainable development in the African context.
Innovative Nachhaltigkeit in Einrichtungen der betrieblichen Altersversorgung: Best Practices für das Anlage- und Risikomanagement
by Henry Schäfer Frank Vogel Ewald StephanDas Buch bietet Einblicke in die Vielfalt der Umsetzungswege nachhaltiger Kapitalanlagen in Einrichtungen der betrieblichen Altersvorsorge in Deutschland, der Schweiz und Österreich. Während der erste Teil des Buches übergreifenden Themenbeiträgen zu nachhaltigen Kapitalanlagen gewidmet ist, möchte der zweite Teil Altersvorsorgeeinrichtungen dazu anregen, eigene Praktiken und Strategien zu nachhaltigen Kapitalanlagen zu reflektieren und zu bereichern. Für die verschiedenen Dienstleister im Bereich der betrieblichen Altersvorsorge liefern die Themenbeiträge wichtige Einblicke in die Praxis nachhaltiger Kapitalanlagen in einem für institutionelle Investoren stetig an Bedeutung wachsenden Segment.
Innovative Nachhaltigkeit oder Nachhaltige Innovation: Wechselwirkungen zwischen Digitalisierung, Technologien und nachhaltiger Unternehmenspraxis (Organisationskompetenz Zukunftsfähigkeit)
by Markus Bodemann Vanessa Just Jasmin Weber Annemarie PaulInnovation und Nachhaltigkeit – lediglich zwei Buzzwords oder eine Symbiose? Digitalisierung und die Nutzung neuer Technologien wie Künstliche Intelligenz bieten Chancen für innovative Geschäftsmodelle sowie neuartige Produkte und Dienstleistungen. Während neue technologiegetriebene Potentiale realisiert werden, stellt sich zunehmend die Frage nach der Nachhaltigkeit von Innovationen. Welche sozialen, ökologischen und wirtschaftlichen Implikationen bringen sie mit sich? Wie wirken Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit zusammen und gibt es ein gegenseitiges Treiben? Dieses Buch beleuchtet die Interdependenz von Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit in ihrer Vielfalt. Dabei werden Anwendungsszenarien und Implikationen aus verschiedenen Branchen und Industrien erläutert und unmittelbare und mittelbare Einflüsse von Innovation auf die Gesellschaft, Unternehmen und Politik diskutiert. Das Werk richtet sich an Entscheider in Unternehmen, Studierende, Dozierende und alle, die sich ein Bild über die vielfältigen Implikationen und Zusammenhänge von zukunftsweisenden Innovationen und Technologien und damit verbundene Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte machen wollen.
Innovative Presentations For Dummies
by Barbara Boyd Ray AnthonyBe the speaker they follow with breakthrough innovative presentationsInnovative Presentations For Dummies is a practical guide to engaging your audience with superior, creative, and ultra-compelling presentations. Using clear language and a concise style, this book goes way beyond PowerPoint to enable you to reimagine, reinvent, and remake your presentations. Learn how to stimulate, capture, and hold your audience in the palm of your hand with sound, sight, and touch, and get up to speed on the latest presentation design methods that make you a speaker who gets audiences committed and acting upon your requests. This resource delves into desktop publishing skills, online presentations, analyzing your audience, and delivers fresh, new tips, tricks, and techniques that help you present with confidence and raw power.Focused and innovative presentations are an essential part of doing business, and most importantly, getting business. Competition, technology, and the ever-tightening economy have made out-presenting your competitors more important than ever. Globally, an estimated 350 PowerPoint presentations are given every second. When it's your turn, you need to go high above and far beyond to stand out from the pack, and Innovative Presentations For Dummies provides a winning game plan. The book includes extensive advice on the visual aspect of presentations and, more importantly, it teaches you how to analyze your audience and speak directly to them. A personalized approach combined with stunning visuals and full sensory engagement makes for a winning presentation.Learn how to be an innovative, not just "effective" presenter in any situationUnderstand how to read and cater to specific audiencesCreate captivating visual materials using technology and propsCreative customize presentations to best communicate with audiencesMore and more employees are being called upon to make presentations, with or without prior training. With step-by-step instruction, vivid examples and ideas and a 360-degree approach to presentations, Innovative Presentations For Dummies will help to drastically improve your presentation outcomes as never before.
Innovative Priority Mechanisms in Service Operations: Theory and Applications (SpringerBriefs in Service Science)
by Shiliang Cui Zhongbin Wang Luyi YangThis book introduces the most advanced and recent theoretical research on innovative priority mechanisms in service settings. It covers cutting-edge topics on service innovations such as line-sitting, service-position-trading, referral priority programs, queue-scalping, distance-based priority, and dynamic priority policy. It also contains a variety of practical examples and applications which help managers to make better decisions and to develop a coherent business strategy.This book appeals to a wide readership, from academics and Ph.D. students who are interested in priority mechanisms, to service managers and researchers in the service industry.This is an open access book.
Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: Select Proceedings of ICIPDIMS 2019 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Bbvl. Deepak Drk Parhi Pankaj C. JenaThis book gathers selected research articles from the International Conference on Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing System (ICIPDIMS 2019), held at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. The book discusses latest methods and advanced tools from different areas of design and manufacturing technology. The main topics covered include design methodologies, industry 4.0, smart manufacturing, and advances in robotics among others. The contents of this book are useful for academics as well as professionals working in industrial design, mechatronics, robotics, and automation.
Innovative Product Development by Additive Manufacturing 2021
by Roland Lachmayer Stefan Kaierle Behrend BodeThe book consists of a collection of papers from a corresponding conference regarding additive manufacturing. The yearly conference used to be held in German under the title: “Konstruktion für die Additive Fertigung.” The topics are: • Design and optimization • Simulation, validation and quality assurance • Specifications, potentials and solutions
Innovative Product Development by Additive Manufacturing 2022
by Roland Lachmayer Stefan Kaierle Behrend BodeThe book consists of a collection of papers from a corresponding conference regarding additive manufacturing. The yearly conference used to be held in German under the title "Konstruktion für die Additive Fertigung" and is held in English since last year. The topics are Specifications, potentials, and solutions Contributions to specifications on components and processes and methods for assessing the suitability of components and the application of additive manufacturing and finding solutions for concepts and design Design and optimization Contributions to the development and design of components, their design to ensure functional requirements and manufacturability, and methods and tools for optimization components Simulation, validation, and quality assurance Contributions to approaches for the computer-aided and physical validation of components, the testing of components and material, and measures to ensure quality aspects Process chain and business modelsContributions to their integration of additive manufacturing processes into existing processes and measures to increase value creation and the creation of new business models.
Innovative Quality Improvements in Operations
by Tomas Backström Anders Fundin Peter E. JohanssonThis book examines current and emerging challenges in manufacturing related to the ideal of developing production processes with variability and agility on one level of the system, combined with structures ensuring stability and robustness on another level; close to what by other scholars has been discussed in terms of continuous innovation. However, this ideal has proven to be difficult to achieve in practice, and there is a need for enhanced and more sophisticated theoretical models dealing with the complexity surrounding organizational conditions to foster incremental as well as radical change in production systems, and, at the same time to ensure stability over time. As a theoretical frame of reference, a perspective on change where conflicting demands and conflicting activities, e. g. , exploration and exploitation, are seen as intertwined and interdependent, is used throughout the book. The ideal from this perspective is to make use of such conflicting forces and to develop the change dynamics by keeping them in the same social system, not to structurally separate them in different departments or different initiatives. The main purpose of the book is to address an increased need for quality improvement through innovation and disruptive change in production. Traditional theories and managerial models of production systems are developed with a focus on stability and improvement. There is a need for enhanced models to reach an ability to develop new future production systems. The goal of the book is to provide nuances and new perspectives giving more realistic models of the production system to be able to increase the change potentiality of the organization and thus the long-term competiveness. Learning and organizational perspectives are in focus as enablers to increase the understanding of a production system as such. Long-term competitiveness through adaptability and the potential for radical improvement is of importance throughout the book. The use of dualities and the concept of ambidextrous organizations as a frame of understanding is the innovative strength for this area.
Innovative Quick Response Programs in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
by T. C. Cheng Tsan-Ming ChoiQuick Response (QR) policy is a market-driven business strategy in which supply chain members work together to react quickly to volatile market demand. Nowadays, with advances in information technologies (such as RFID and ERP systems), new challenges and opportunities arise for the application of QR. This handbook explores QR extensively with a view to discovering innovative QR measures that can help tackle the observed and emerging challenges. The book is organized into four parts, which include chapters on analytical modeling and analyses, information technologies, cases, reviews, and applications. This handbook provides new analytical and empirical results with valuable insights, which will not only help supply chain agents to better understand the latest applications of QR in business, but also help practitioners and researchers to know how to improve the effectiveness of QR using innovative methods.
Innovative Renewable Waste Conversion Technologies
by Gheorghe Lazaroiu Lucian MihaescuThis book investigates innovative solutions to increase the share of renewable engery in the global power mix, with a particular focus on improved and sustainable biomass conversion technologies. To this end, the book deals with an analysis of the generation mix of renewable energies (including biofuels, renewable waste and biogas) in the overall power balance of several countries. In addition, the possibilities of using bioenergy resources in the context of power generation are thoroughly analyzed. As one of the most important ways of converting biomass into energy, the combustion process is analyzed in detail, highlighting the vast potential for the use of innovative biofuels. In this context, a detailed classification of existing biofuels is established, reflecting the relationship between their energy properties and their potential use in industrial facilities. Additionally, the most efficient combustion technologies for the respective applications are discussed. Furthermore, the authors emphasize that the management of renewable waste, both from industry (tannery waste and oils from transport) and agriculture, requires an economic and environmental friendly approach. The challenges of burning various renewable waste fuels and upgrading industrial facilities are discussed, and the ideas and technologies presented in this book contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for "Affordable and Clean Energy". The book is a useful resource for professionals dealing with current and upcoming activities related to renewable energy combustion, and a good starting point for young researchers.