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Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations. [1] It is a subset of the fields of business, commerce and organizational theory. Business development is the creation of long-term value for an organization from customers, markets, and relationships. [2]
A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. [1] [2] While entrepreneurship includes all new businesses including self-employment and businesses that do not intend to go public, startups are new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo-founder. [3]
A Business Development Company ("BDC") is a form of unregistered closed-end investment company in the United States that invests in small and mid-sized businesses. This form of company was created by the US Congress in 1980 in the amendments to the Investment Company Act of 1940 .
Many companies need technological development to stay competitive. Technological development can occur through making decisions about acquiring, exploiting and managing technologies. These decisions should be made by involving the research and development staff, purchasing staff and marketers.
The high time and financial costs make research and development of participatory design less appealing for speculative investors. [30] It also may be difficult to find or convince enough shareholders or community members to commit their time and effort to a project. [31] However, widespread and involved participation is critical to the process.
Developing a framework for business model development with an emphasis on design themes, Lim (2010) proposed the environment-strategy-structure-operations (ESSO) business model development which takes into consideration the alignment of the organization's strategy with the organization's structure, operations, and the environmental factors in ...
Research and development (R&D or R+D) [1], known in some countries as experiment and design, is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products. [2] [3] [4] R&D constitutes the first stage of development of a potential new service or the production process.
While most entrepreneurial ventures start out as a small business, not all small businesses are entrepreneurial in the strict sense of the term. Many small businesses are sole proprietor operations consisting solely of the owner—or they have a small number of employees—and many of these small businesses offer an existing product, process or ...