CAPITALIZE ON YOUR BRIGHT IDEAS WITH LEGAL DESIGN THINKING

Organizations today innovate to survive in a competitive, complex, and interconnected business world. They co-create with others outside their own organization to succeed. But capturing the value of these bright ideas separately is often very complicated.

The Innovation Matrix simplifies and structures innovation management. Start looking at innovation and Intellectual Property (IP) from a pragmatic perspective. This book will take yo...

The Dragon1 Fundamentals Study Guide, 1st Edition, prepares architecture professionals for the 'Dragon1 Foundation' examination. It also serves as a text book for MBA and Informatics students. This book is very well suited for anyone interested in working with architecture, both as members of projects or participants in planning the architecture of the enterprise. Written by the founders in the Netherlands in 2014, this book offers people around the globe a new and unique approach to design a...

Decision-makers can dispose of dozens of books, in which strategic methods and techniques are central. Increasingly, however, decision-makers are asking themselves how reliable those methods and techniques are and how big the chance is that they can achieve their Strategic Goal with them. Decision-makers also want to be able to calculate and test this ‘probability’ themselves. They are no longer satisfied with qualitative descriptions and estimates.

Ernst R. Brus has developed methods and...

A Sustainable Digital Economy

The Digital revolution is promising us a great future. Cyber and Privacy incidents that come with it are the modern equivalent of pollution we knew from the industrial revolution as well. The fear, uncertainty, and doubt that these incidents create lead to an expensive Cybersecurity arms race and growing legislative controls. How can such a Digital Economy ever be trusted and Sustainable?

By linking to lessons learned from other industries, and positive show case...

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”

Abraham Lincoln in 1862 already warned us to renew our thoughts and actions.

This book helps the Reader in this process by understanding dynamics and change, the role of resilience and opening the world by regarding i...

The BDA Currents: Where Diplomacy Meets Business, is the Brussels Diplomatic Academy’s annual report covering the wider geopolitical and other factors influencing and affecting the world of diplomacy, international relations and global business. The journal focuses on issues of topical interest around the centers of global power, influence and importance, including the continents of Europe and Africa, the Middle East, China, India & Asia, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States an...

We are living on a finite planet. Mankind is overstepping planetary boundaries, however. In 2021, worldwide consumption has exceeded the yearly bio-capacity of the Earth (what we call the overshoot day) on the 29th of July. For industrialised countries, the situation is far worse: In 2022, Belgium reached that overshoot day on the 26th of March. In the face of these urgent challenges of sustainable resource use, there is wide agreement on the need for a transition, a fundamental societal shif...

Standards play an important role within society, shaping many transactions between consumers and companies, citizens and governments, as well as customer/supplier relationships in the broadest sense. This book investigates the economic and strategic importance of standards in a small, strongly globalised economy. The case of Belgium is developed from both a macro-economic and micro-economic perspective.

Based on an econometric model, the macro-economic part quantifies the impact of standards ...

The legal systems shaping capitalist societies worldwide contribute to a variety of fundamental societal problems, such as an ever-mounting public and private debt, environmental pollution, an increasing polarization between the rich and the poor, and an overall, globally unjust fiscal and financial order. These issues remain unaddressed by the capitalist system itself. However, the main legal building blocks of the capitalist socio-economic system are remarkably simple, the most important be...

This new book of investor Harm de Vries and VC lawyers Menno van Loon and Sjoerd Mol, who together have been involved in hundreds of venture capital transactions, explains all of the most common clauses used in VC deals. It includes many examples, as well as negotiation tips for both entrepreneurs and investors and a full termsheet template as annex. Furthermore, the book explains the economics behind the deal terms, which makes them easier to understand. The result is a practical guide to ve...