This edited volume presents new means of quantifying the behavioral and consequential differences between technology-based and non-technology-based nascent entrepreneurs in varied economies. It explores the socioeconomic place of technology in developed and developing countries, and describes the implications of this research for policymakers' ability to identify and support new areas of economic growth. This book also examines technology-based nascent entrepreneurship issues in the contex...

Eat St. is a lip-smacking celebration of North America’s tastiest, messiest, and most irresistible street food. Join James Cunningham on the ultimate culinary road trip to find the most daring, delicious, and inventive street food across the continent.And the best part is that now you can make these delicious, over-the-top, culinary creations at home. Eat. St. is packed with 125 recipes from the best food vendors on wheels dishing out great curbside eats all over ...

Raising responsible kids requires responsible parents. However, many parents, even the most devoted, lack a full understanding of the concept of responsibility and the importance of gaining this understanding. In The Robinson Way, Dr. James J. Cunningham presents a unique child rearing philosophy and a comprehensive discussion of all aspects of the parenting process.He gives definitive suggestions and specific recommendations to enhance a child’s growth and development into a happy...

Stories of Small Towns, Big Dreams, and Second Chances. This anthology weaves together tales of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances in rural settings. From a motel owner rescuing strays to an ex-cop confronting his past, each novella explores themes of redemption, identity, and the search for connection.Dive into the gritty realism of small-town life, where characters grapple with personal demons, navigate complex relationships, and discover unexpect...

When Transom Shultz goes missing shortly after returning to his sleepy hometown of Fallen Mountains, Pennsylvania, his secrets are not the only secrets that threaten to emerge. Red, the sheriff, is haunted by the possibility that a crime Transom was involved in seventeen years earlier—a crime Red secretly helped cover up—may somehow be linked to his disappearance. Possum, the victim of that crime, wants revenge. Laney will do anything to keep Transom quiet about the careless mistake they m...

Jim Poyser's BBC radio riotous six-part comedy of time travel and delightJason Slater is a very average twenty-first-century English teacher from Cheadle Hulme, but somehow wakes up after a few drinks in nineteenth-century Macclesfield. Apparently, he's now Tarquin, third son of Lord Belport, with a faithful valet, a suspicious brother, a spurned ex-girlfriend (who's now going out with his brother) - and no obvious way he'll ever get back home again.From to...

Combining best practices, empirical studies and the authors’ own research on technology transfer offices (TTOs), technology transfer, ecosystems and scientists in the principal investigator role, this book presents a business model framework for TTOs. From a practitioner’s perspective the business model framework captures key elements of TTOs’ strategic and operational activities that are needed for effective management and leadership. Moreover, the frameworkaddresses central issues includ...

This is the first study to draw on international research carried out across four EU member states to add to the neglected area of the creative economy of peripheral regions.Economies are dynamic entities and subject to constant flux. Driven by changing tastes, new ways to make and disruptive innovations, new routes of economic development present themselves at ever increasing rates. This study is concerned with the rise of the creative economy. UNCTAD has marked the emergence of t...

In early 2012 in Sydney and Melbourne, forty-one new novelists embarked on 'Writing a Novel' - a six-month creative writing course, under the auspices of Faber Academy at Allen & Unwin. Course directors James Bradley, Sophie Cunningham and Kathryn Heyman walked alongside these new writers as they risked metaphorical life and limb, to reveal their determination, commitment, willingness, courage and importantly their talent.This anthology is a taster of the new writing growing in Aus...

This book focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT has caught the imagination as a transformational technology that will positively impact a large and diverse array of socio-economic activities. This book explores this impact, beginning with a chapter highlighting the promises and complexities of the IoT. It then explores these in greater detail in subsequent chapters. The first of these chapters explores the patenting activity of leading companies and is followed by a discussion of th...

Everyone has hidden desires...Jardel has a structured life, a successful career, and a fine woman beside him. Solange Rivera is everything he wished for, but he's no Prince Charming.Betting it all on her seems to be the answer to all his troubles, but Solange has other plans. When Solange refuses Jardel’s vision for the future, there is nothing left but to prove to her they are meant to be together. By any means necessary. Even if it takes a little help from his fr...

Sometimes you think you know yourself until you realize you’ve only scratched the surface.Mariana Torres Charles is finally ready to fulfill her dream as a bandleader and designer for the up-and-coming carnival band LoveVibe for Miami Carnival. The win would be proof that she can follow through on her goals because in love…the follow through is less than stellar. After a long string of crushed lovers, she is done breaking hearts.When Mason Brathwaite, her forever-f...