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This article may be useful if you do a scientific research dedicated to Business Incubators. I have used it for my own research. However, the most useful article that I've found is "Business incubators and new venture creation: an assessment of incubating models" by Rosa Grimaldi, and Alessandro Grandi, published in Technovation, Volume 25, Issue 2 , February 2005, Pages 111-121, also available on amazon. Another useful article is "Incubators as a small business support in Russia: contrast of university-related U.S. incubators with the Zelenograd Scientific and Technology Park", by Garry D. Bruton, published by Journal of Small Business Management - January 1, 1998. I also recommend the book "Incubators: A Realist's Guide to the World's New Business Accelerators by Colin Barrow.

The emphasis of this study, "A comparative study of two European business incubators", is on the identification and analysis of effective management practices in the management of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) support arrangements. complement the analysis. Two cases of SME support arrangements are compared: one in Finland and one in Sweden. Through the comparison of these two, the present study strives to draw a distinction between context-specific good practices and more universally applicable good practices. The cases analyzed in the empirical study are the SMIL (Foundation for Small Business Development in Linkoping) in Sweden and Spinno in Espoo, Finland. SMIL is an SME stimulation arrangement for technology-based SMEs in the Linkoping region. Spinno is a development-oriented business incubator program geared to stimulate the emergence of technology-based SMEs from universities in the Helsinki metropolitan region.

The mission of SMIL is to promote the growth and development of SMEs in the Linkoping region. Consequently, the bulk of its activities are geared to existing SMEs in the region, and take the form of business stimulation services. SMIL offers a range of both informal and formal activities. The informal activities include breakfast, lunch, and evening meetings. The formal activities are comprised of a range of training programs for competence development. The contents of the programs and activities are mostly designed to meet the needs of the participating firms. SMIL offers three types of formal business support programs, tailored to different stages in the growth and development.

The mission of the Spinno program is to catalyze the emergence of new knowledge-intensive firms from research institutes and higher education institutions (HIEs) in the Helsinki metropolitan region. Spinno seeks to accomplish this mission by organizing two annual training and consulting programs for aspiring new entrepreneurs. The bulk of the applications to the Spinno program come from participating research institutions and HIEs, but corporate spin-offs are also accepted into the program. During its six years of existence, Spinno has processed over 230 applications, of which some 150 have been accepted to the program. Of these, 100 have subsequently established a new firm. The core activity of Spinno is to maintain a six-month training and consulting pipeline for selected aspiring entrepreneurs.

For each of the case studies, the authors give a brief description, history and context, scope, objective and services, and a conclusion. Then the authors give contextual differences, similarities in management practices, configurational differences between Spinno and SMIL, conclusions, and management practice similarities between Spinno and SMIL.

This article may be useful in a scientific research related to Business Incubators.

University business incubators (UBIs) is one of four main types of incubators. The other three are Business Innovation Centres (BICs), Independent Private Incubators (IPIs), and Corporate Private Incubators (CPIs). This classification has been defined in a paper "Business incubators and new venture creation: an assessment of incubating models" by Rosa Grimaldi, and Alessandro Grandi, published in Technovation, Volume 25, Issue 2 , February 2005, Pages 111-121, which is I also highly recommend. Another useful article is "Incubators as a small business support in Russia: contrast of university-related U.S. incubators with the Zelenograd Scientific and Technology Park", by Garry D. Bruton, published by Journal of Small Business Management - January 1, 1998. I also recommend the book "Incubators: A Realist's Guide to the World's New Business Accelerators by Colin Barrow.

The present study, "A comparison of critical success factors for effective operations of university business incubators in the United States and Korea", suggests that there are critical success factors for effective operation of business incubators. And it compares the perceived importance of them between managers of U.S. and Korean firms. In this paper, the authors have reviewed the existing literature on operations and management of business incubator system. As a result of this review, 14 factors emerged as important to the effective operation of the incubator system. This research employs a questionnaire survey methodology. The questionnaire was developed to measure critical success factors for effective operations and general information of UBIs. The respondents are the UBI managers and entrepreneurs of tenant and graduate firms. The research findings described in this paper provide an exploratory analysis of critical success factors to operate the UBI effectively in two countries. This research not only suggests how the UBIs should be operated for their client firms but also goes a step further to establish that UBIs are especially suitable under the global entrepreneurship environment.

Cohn traveled to Poland to study Polish reactions fifty years after the pogrom, and also described Jewish thinking in this regard. Repudiating an assertion in a yizker bukh (memorial book), Cohn said: "As well, his claim that Hitler chose Poland because of its indigenous anti-Semitism sounds a common Jewish theme, one that enrages Poles and finds no historical support." (p. 17) Cohn also notes that the 12 Poles tried and 9 executed within a week of the Pogrom was "a parody of justice". (p. 16)

Perhaps the most interesting part of Cohn's essay is his interview of Henryk Blaszczyk (not Baszczyk, as Cohn writes), the "kidnapped" boy. Cohn writes: "In Henryk's story, which unfolded for the next hour or so, he did not remember ever having implicated the Jews in his disappearance from Kielce, though he said he might have...[The Blaszczyk family] were interned in a basement until December. When they arrived home, they found their house ransacked. He was told never to speak of his experiences or his father would go back to prison." (p. 19) Unfortunately, Cohn fails to put two and two together. If Kielce was just a spontaneous anti-Semitic outrage, why was the Blaszczyk family forcibly secluded for 5 months after the pogrom, and who was intimidating the Blaszczyk boy into silence and why?

Cohn (p. 20) suggests that there is a contradiction between the Soviet-staging position and the understandable-Polish-anger-towards-extensive-Jewish-Soviet-collaboration position. Of the 42 murdered Jews (and tens more in the simultaneous "train pogroms") an unknown fraction perished directly at the hands of Communist agents (the police (UB), the "steel workers", the "priests", etc.) and the remaining fraction perished at the hands of enraged Poles (who had taken the bait from the agent provocateurs about the "boy kidnapped by Jews"). So the Soviet staging accounts for the first fraction of the murdered Jews, while Polish anger (plus mob psychology) accounts for the remaining fraction. There is no contradiction between the two. However, it is possible that Communist agents were directly responsible for ALL the Kielce and train deaths.

A book put out by the Polish Educational Foundation of North America is discussed rather superficially by Cohn (p. 20), not doing justice to its content (see the Peczkis review of Kielce - July 4, 1946 - Background, Context and Events - A Collective Work). Finally, nowhere does Cohn mention the fact that the Soviet-staging theory is at least provisionally supported by some Jewish investigators, notably Michal Checinski and Yitzhak Zuckerman.

I liked the story book and my daughter does as well. I wished the illustrations were brighter instead of the drab colors, it made it harder for my daughter to stay interested. I liked how the cow goes from each animal to try and find her "moo", it's a cute story.

This article, written by Richard Fobes, author of 'The Creative Problem Solver's Toolbox', has captured some basic material from the latter book. What the author has done, especially towards the tail-end of the article, is that he has simply dove-tailed the creative problem solving process into forecasting of the future. As it stands, the article is reasonably good.

The connection between creative problem solving & forecasting the future is to look into the past. According to the author, "what we see is that the most dramatic & interesting historical changes have been innovations that have solved previously existing problems. So, one way to predict interesting future changes is to anticipate how current problems will eventually be solved."

On the issue of trend analysis, the author adds this observation: "Using creative problem solving to forecast an innovation is different from using trend analysis to forecast the future. Most significantly, the underlying assumptions of these two techniques differ.

In trend analysis, the underlying assumption is that current trends will continue. In forecasting that uses creative problem solving, the underlying assumption is that existing problems will be solved at some time in the future.

Although it can forecast likely future solutions to existing problems, creative problem solving does not provide any clue about when the anticipated solutions might arrive. Because significant innovations are typically adopted very slowly, they may not be developed and widely adopted for years, decades, or even centuries after they are first anticipated. For this reason, creative problem solving is not very useful for making profits based on buying and selling property, stocks, etc. Instead, creative problem solving is useful for making decisions that steer businesses, individuals, & governments toward a better future.

Trend analysis has traditionally been the backbone of forecasting. But now that so many trends are ending, forecasts depending too heavily on trend analysis are becoming shortsighted. To overcome this limitation, the skill of creative problem solving is needed. The basis of this approach is to use the tools of creative problem solving to anticipate how existing problems eventually will be solved. An added benefit of learning the tools of creative problem solving is that they also can be used to solve the problems we encounter each day at work and at home.

The kind of creativity that simply prompts new ideas is not adequate for either effective problem solving or forecasting. The higher kind of creativity, the kind that more reliably leads to effective solutions of challenging real-life problems, is necessary. This is the kind of creativity that enabled Leonardo da Vinci to imagine a helicopter 500 years ago. And this is the kind of creativity that gives us a powerful forecasting tool in these times of dramatic global change."

Well, if readers are serious about revving up & sharpening their creative problem solving skills, irrespective whether in inventing, in business or for personal application, I strongly suggest reading the author's book.

This is a frustrating book in many ways. It actually provides what its subtitle promises the "elements of a grand strategy" for the Global War on Terror and it is quite a well thought out set of elements indeed. The problem is that my guess is no one who matters in the U.S. Government has read the book or even believes that they could learn anything from this book or any one of several excellent studies of global terrorism written or at least sponsored by folks out side the federal government. This makes reading such material very frustrating.

The book is made up of essays by contributors from academia and from various current or former U.S./UK government officials. The principal editor, I presume, is Audrey Cronin who appears to have a very sound grasp of the details of Global Terrorism and provides a very credible conclusion in the final chapter, "Towards an Effective Grand Strategy" that should be what is guiding U.S. counter-terrorism efforts today, but clearly is not. Other particularly good chapters in this book include essays on the roles that should be played by intelligence, law enforcement and military force in counter-terrorism. Paul Pillar, who at one time headed up the Counter Terrorism Center at CIA, again shows that there are actually people in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) who understand the role that intelligence can play in counter-terrorism. Unfortunately as near as I can tell knowledgeable folks like Pillar are more or less sidelined by those who run the IC for reasons not entirely clear.

I recommend this book to anyone really interested in how the Global War on Terror might be waged, but would not recommend it for general readers

I was a criminal investigator for many years, but now a real estate investor who still operates in some pretty rough neighborhoods. I'm also a concealed carry firearm permit holder.

The author, along with other qualified law enforcement authors, engaged in a long series of criminal studies covering several years, much of which, included talking to the real people who did the crimes.

In this piece, Pinizzotto re-reminds the officer and citizen of the obvious....and individual wearing clothes inappropriate for the weather, looking suspicious and all that. But there was much more. As an example, using the hood of a sweatshirt to conceal a firearm, and the fact that none, repeat none, of the many perps interviewed used a holster.

This caused them to be constantly adjusting the position of the firearm, especially when sitting to standing, or exiting a car. There was also considerable discussion of situations involving women when confronted with more than one suspect.

Interesting and worth the e-doc purchase.

John Cash is the only journalist who has really covered the OKC Bombing. His articles in the McCurtain Gazette have uncovered more discrepancies in the official story than anyone else has dared or been courageous enough to follow up on. He deserves a Pulitzer Prize.

The article may be too short for my purposes (research paper for Psych of Disaster course), but it is well written. I'm very glad however considering the length that I bothered to go to the Family Practice News website where they have the entire journal, much less the article, available for free vs. the 10 dollars Amazon has the gall to charge.

excellent insight from a seasoned real estate veteran on what to be aware of when buying distressed debt. had the wall streeters followed this simple formula, we would not be where we are at today.