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Kickstarters: China’s Innovation Incubators

May 14, 2013 By Matthew Fulco

China’s incubators set entrepreneurial spirit in motion. Stephen Bell has high hopes for Chinese student entrepreneurs. The American venture capitalist invests in seed-stage start-ups across China, betting that the next Mark Zuckerberg will emerge from the world’s second-largest economy. Bell’s Beijing-based venture-capital firm Trilogy VC runs the ChinaStars incubator program at the country’s top universities. […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Creativity, Culture, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Innovation, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship, Talent Tagged With: China Stars, Chinaccelerator, Incubators, Innovation, Innovation Works, Jue.io, Kai-Fu Lee, Slider, Start-ups, Stephen Bell, Technology, Trilogy Ventures

Promoting Innovation in Society

May 8, 2013 By Bennett Voyles

How do you kickstart innovation? Here are some pointers Beyond the law of supply and demand, one of the few things that most economists and policymakers agree on is that innovation is a very good thing. Most authorities acknowledge that the tremendous gains in lifespan and living standards made over the past 300 years have […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Talent Tagged With: Copycat, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, IP, Shanzhai, Slider, SMEs, University

Invisible Hand Revealed: Mobile Apps that Move Cabs

April 18, 2013 By Brian Viard

In an earlier article I discussed how the regulation of Beijing’s taxi fares had taken taxis off the road. Recently there has been a spate of mobile applications (mobile apps) to address this problem: DiDiDaChe and YaoYaoZhaoChe in Beijing, KuaiDiDaChe in Hangzhou, and DiDi and KuaiDi in Shanghai and Guangzhou. Although varying slightly, these apps […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Automobile Industry, Best Practice, Chinese Economy, Consumers, Economics, Entrepreneurship, ExpertSpeak, Innovation, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China, Technology Tagged With: Apps, Beijing Cabs, Beijing Taxis, Beijing Traffic, Invisible Hand Revealed, Mobile Apps, Slider, Taxis

Lost in Thailand: Revolutionizing China’s Movie Market

March 29, 2013 By Li Yang

Lost in Thailand, a Chinese slapstick comedy, recently created a box office record of sorts. Released in China on December 12th, 2012, as a low-budget sequel to Lost on Journey, the film became an overnight success earning over $202.1 million in box office revenue. By January 1st, 2013, it earnt over RMB 1 billion, becoming […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, China, Chinese Economy, Consumers, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, ExpertSpeak, Finance, Innovation, Marketing, Opinion Tagged With: Chinese Films, Enlight Media, Lost in Thailand, Slider

Download the March 2013 issue of CKGSB Magazine: Tapping homegrown innovation

March 25, 2013 By CKGSB Knowledge

You are invited to download the March issue of CKGSB Magazine. You’ll enjoy articles and interviews like: COVER STORY: Innovation: Incubators tap homegrown innovation in China. With close similarities to incubators in Silicon Valley and an arsenal of China-specific tactics for start-up success, Chinese incubators are moving beyond the traditional role of incubators. They are creating […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Banking, Best Practice, China, Chinese Economy, Connections, Consumers, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Finance, Globalization, Infographics, Innovation, Know China, Private Equity, Talent Tagged With: #Sir Tom Hunter, Apple, Art of War, Baidu, Best Buy, E-Commerce, E-Commerce in China, Environment, Globalization, Haier, Huawei, Incubators, Innovation, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Jennifer Li, KFC, Lenovo, Nokia, Pizza Hut, Private Enterprise, Robert Aumann, Slider, Smartphone, Sun Tzu, Yum! Brands

The High Growth Conundrum: Surviving the Financial Risks of Fast Growth

February 8, 2013 By Bennett Voyles

Fast growth might seem like a dream come true for an entrepreneur. What could be better than watching your vision turn into happy customers and hundreds or thousands of busy employees? The reality, however, is that a period of hypergrowth can be extremely dangerous for a young company—sometimes even fatal. Indeed, many fast-growing companies implode […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Management Tagged With: Edward Hess, High Growth, Hypergrowth, Slider

Sir Tom Hunter and his Idea of Venture Philanthropy

February 4, 2013 By Neelima Mahajan

An interview with Sir Tom Hunter, noted entrepreneur, philanthropist and Scotland’s first billionaire. Sir Tom Hunter’s story is an inspiring one. The son of a grocer in a small mining village in Scotland, he started a business selling sneakers from the back of a van. From humble beginnings, he went on to create sportswear retail […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, CSR, Entrepreneurship, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Good, Society, Videos Tagged With: #Interview, #Sir Tom Hunter, Charity, Clinton Foundation, Philanthropy, Slider, Venture Philanthropy

The Hypergrowth Conundrum: Q&A with Noam Wasserman, Start-up Statistician

February 1, 2013 By Bennett Voyles

After surviving his own founding pitfalls and watching the failure of many other founding teams when he worked for a venture capital firm, Noam Wasserman began to see patterns in who succeeded and who failed. He tried to find out more, but discovered that although a lot had been written on the question, almost all […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Conversations, Entrepreneurship, Management, Q&A Tagged With: High Growth, Hypergrowth, Noam Wasserman, Start-ups, The Founder's Dilemmas

Beyond Profits: China’s Social Entrepreneurs

July 3, 2012 By Kay Park

Philanthropy, Strategic Philanthropy

A new breed of entrepreneurs takes on China’s most vexing problems

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, Entrepreneurship, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship Tagged With: Business Model Innovation, Liao Jianwen, Liu Zhifeng, Mong Grass, Social Entrepreneurs, Social Innovation, Social Ventures, Spring Mountain, Wang Zhaoming

Getting real about private equity in China

April 19, 2012 By John Kuo

Capital raising for China-focused private equity funds is booming. In China, however, merely writing a check might not be enough for realizing returns. According to the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), private equity funds in China raised $12.9 billion in the first three quarters of 2011, a marked increase from the $7.5 billion generated […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, Chinese Economy, Entrepreneurship, Finance Tagged With: Private Equity

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