This paper attempts to recast the entrepreneur by synthesizing ideas from personal construct psychology and systems-based evolutionary economics. It retains an Austrian subjectivist emphasis but focuses on rapid product innovation rather than abitrage. Profit opportunities are mental constructs that link products and revenue streams. Entrepreneurs develop new products by forming novel connectio...

Flexible teams are a new type of organizational entity that will become even more prevalent in the future. We define the concept of a flexible team, present selected attributes of such teams (composite membership and roles, diverse disciplines and skills, rapid communication alignment, and rapid process alignment), address the impact of these attributes on different categories of tools, and dis...

To build a platform for (high, sustainable) use, we need to know what will thrill users. Finding the right concoction of technology, functionality and design to delight users takes a thousand decisions, pivots and changes. The JSTOR Labs team has been using Flash Builds – high-intensity, short-burst, user-driven development efforts – in order to prototype new ideas and get to a user saying “Wow...

The effect of rapid air chilling of carcasses, compared to conventional air chilling, and effect of earlier deboning, after rapid air chilling, on colour of pork M semimembranosus was investigated. During and at the end of chilling, compared to conventional chill treatment, carcasses that were rapid chilled had significantly (P < 0.001) lower internal temperature in the deep leg. Rapid chilled ...

In this paper we present a framework for the rapid prototyping of knowledge-based recommender systems applied to learning object recommendation. With a recommendation scheme of five stages as starting point, the framework can be configured and adapted to build different recommenders. The framework not only provides default implementations of alternative strategies for each stage, but can easily...

This documents describes the source of the style RR.sty, and how to use it for typesetting INRIA research reports or technical reports by using LaTeX, the way to obtain a serial number and how to deposit the final version (PostScript file) on local and national INRIA files servers. Key-words: research reports, technical reports, INRIA, LaTeX Les styles RR et RRA4 3

We present the main features of a system designed to support the development and delivery of web applications through concepts for modularity, reuse and rapid prototyping. The system is based on an extended object-oriented database system that manages both application data and publishing information in terms of content, structure and presentation. The process of information delivery uses dynami...