Context: Software startups are newly created companies with no operating history and fast in producing cutting-edge technologies. These companies develop software under highly uncertain conditions, tackling fast-growing markets under severe lack of resources. Therefore, software startups present a unique combination of characteristics which pose several challenges to software development activi...

Physician entrepreneurship is on the rise; and investment by physicians in startup device companies is one manifestation of it. At the same time, there is increasing concern about potential conflicts of interest in physician business interests, given their fiduciary responsibility to their patients. There are multiple forms such investment can take. The Stark and anti-kickback statutes are rele...

Software companies face high pressure to develop innovative products and services at increasing speed. However, a traditional new product development (NPD) process is not always a sufficient means for doing this. We report experiences from an explorative multiple case study covering eight cases from four companies of different sizes and business characteristics. Each case aimed to streamline th...

Technology companies are investing billions of dollars in educational technology, but also creating their own alternative schools. This article traces the emergence of four prototypical ‘silicon startup schools’ as exemplars of a technocratic mode of corporatized education reform: IBM’s P-TECH, part of its Smarter Cities program; AltSchool, a chain of schools based on ‘makerspaces’ established ...

The need to stimulate technological entrepreneurship has been one of the biggest challenges faced in Science, Technology and Innovation Policies Brazil. Therefore, present research sought carry out a comparative study different programs instruments foster innovation for smaller companies coordinated by Federal Government operated through its Autarchies, Public Companies Social Organizations. fo...