I work for a software company. We use several metrics to evaluate new software projects, including increased sales, retention, and revenue. One quality we look for is innovation. This often prompts a discussion of "how do you measure innovation." How do you say that one idea is more or less innovative than another? We often turn to our competitors and say if they aren't doing it then the idea is innovative... but that may also be a sign that the idea is terrible. You may even hear someone say "why can't we be innovate like that company?" As soon as you strive to be like another company, are you still being innovative? I recognize that this post offers more questions than answer. I'm truly curious about your thoughts...

What is innovation? How do you recognize innovation? How do you measure innovation?

The War of 1812, as a whole, best illustrates which economic theory of war?

(A) Opportunity Cost Effect

(B) Rapacity/Greed Effect

(C) Information Asymmetries

(D) Collective Action Problem

Discuss the costs and benefits of collective action with regards to trade legislation. Why is it that trade restrictions are so prevalent when it is so easy to prove their negative impact on general welfare? (25 points)

Hill Incorporated purchased metal to build a new roller coaster on December 31, 2020. Hill provided a $500,000 down payment and agreed to pay the balance in equal instalments of $340,000 every December 31 for five years. Hill could have received a loan from the bank for this amount at 9% interest.

1.Prepare the journal entries that would be recorded for the purchase and for the payments and interest on December 31, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

You have been asked by the government of your home country to advise on public policy for innovation and entrepreneurship. Discuss your response, in the context of your country’s particular economic and innovation aspects.

1. What is the relationship between CSR, innovation and leadership? Please, explain?
2. How can leadership invigorate and improve passionate intrapreneurs promoting innovation and change, and CSR?

Two scholarly references are required.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation concepts in selected Chinese and Western companies

Project overview:

Students work individually and analyze entrepreneurship and innovation concepts in one Chinese and one Western company belonging to the same industry. The main goal is to understand entrepreneurship and innovation “in practice”, and to compare the situation in China and Western countries.

General instructions:

Student should focus on the following key concepts related to innovation and entrepreneurship:

1. Who was the entrepreneur(s) starting this business?
2. Main characteristics of entrepreneur.
3. Background: Provide a minimum of three facts about their background: - Where is he/she from? - What natural talents did they have as a child? - What were their potential early successes?
4. How it started - Provide a minimum of three facts about their early business ventures: - What choices did they make that impacted their business or education? - What job experiences did they have?
5. Risks? Provide a minimum of two examples of risks that they took.
6. Identify and explain a minimum of two personal characteristics that have contributed to their entrepreneurial success
7. How did they identify an opportunity? Which were their sources of innovation?
8. Original business model and further business model innovations?
9. Main innovations – types of innovation, products, services etc.
10. R&D
11. Patents
12. How was the entire innovation process structured?
13. Are outside individuals part of the innovation process – for example out-sourced R&D, community-based users such as open source, academics? If so, what are the incentives for them?
14. Understand the strategies that a firm must consider to most effectively exploit the value of their innovation
15. Does the firm engage in strategic partnerships? If so, what are the basic factors that make this partnership-based approach effective?
16. Development of Industry - Describe what the entrepreneur is doing to continue their work in the business world: - Identify their current projects.
17. Future challenges for growth and internationalization.

Assessment:

Report (2,500 words) based on this project work. APA style referencing.

What problems could a programmer encounter if they defined a destructor for a class but no copy constructor? Illustrate your description with an example class.

Programming language: C++

Requirement: provide answer along with one code example with illustration.

1. Consider Country Z, a country with an economy that behaves according to an entirely conventional Solow model. In 2018, it’s in steady state. In this low-productivity country, technology (A) never changes. In 2019, a philanthropist instantly gives Country Z a massive amount of physical capital as a one-time gift because he read on a blog that such a gift might "jump-start" Country Z's economy. The capital is used reasonably efficiently, so there are no public choice failures.

   1. Between 2018 and 2020, what will happen to Country Z's interest rate? Will it rise, fall, or remain unchanged?

   2. Between 2020 and 2030, what will happen to Country Z's interest rate: Rise, fall, or remain unchanged?   

   3. Between 2020 and 2030, what will happen to Country Z's wages: rise, fall or no change?

   4. In Z's post-2019 steady state, what will wages be like compared to 2018: higher, lower, or the same?