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A 12-bit 350MS/s ADC with 75dB SFDR fabricated in 0.18$\mu$m SiGe BiCMOS process is presented. To improve the power efficiency, the ADC employs a novel residue amplifier (RA) by exploiting the hetero-junction bipolar transistor (HBT). We also propose a fast comparator to save time for the residue settling of pipeline stages. A fully integrated reference buffer with “negative bootstrap power” (NBP) is proposed to improve both high power supply rejection ratio (PSRR) and ground supply rejection ratio (GSRR). A bandgap reference (BGR) with ultra-low leakage current start-up loop is also presented. The measured results show that with Nyquist input, the SFDR achieves 75dB and 63dB SNDR up to 350MS/s and consumes 180mW (only ADC core) with 580fj/cov Waldon FOM.

This study draws upon institutional theory to investigate how the country’s institutional framework fosters start-up activities or causes a bottleneck that diminishes Austrians’ entrepreneurship. Through a multiple case study approach based on in-depth interviews with five start-up founders, our findings illustrate the impacts of the Austrian institutional environment on new venture initiatives. Among many institutional factors, incubation centres, administrative bureaucracies, and financial burdens appear to have the strongest effects on early-stage start-up activities in Austria. This paper concludes by providing theoretical insight and political implications on establishing institutional systems that streamline interactions between government, the local community, and start-up companies.

SINGAPORE – Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed) Announces Partnership with Duke-NUS Medical School’s Centre of Regulatory Excellence (CoRE), Pledging Joint Commitment to Promote Regulatory Convergence and Capacity Building Across the Region.

SINGAPORE – Guardian Partners with MyDoc to Address Singapore’s Population Health Needs through Integrating Technology and Self-Care.

SINGAPORE & UNITED STATES – CellMax Life’s Precision, Non-Invasive Cancer Testing Now Available throughout Southeast Asia through Asia Genomics.

UNITED STATES – 3-D Printed Models Could Improve Patient Outcomes in Heart Valve Replacements.

UNITED STATES – Promising Target to Protect Bone in Patients with Diabetes.

UNITED STATES – New Antibody Appears to Re-Activate Immune System in Cancer Therapy.

UNITED STATES – Combo Immunotherapy May Herald New Standard of Care for Kidney Cancer.

JAPAN – Chugai’s Bispecific Antibody “Emicizumab” Global Phase III Data in Patients with Haemophilia A with Inhibitors Published in The New England Journal of Medicine Online.

RUSSIA & INDIA – BIOCAD’s Rituximab Biosimilar to Receive Market Authorization Soon in India.

DSM opens new office in Thailand.

Corteva Agriscience invests in research to help secure the future of food in APAC.

DuPont combines nutrition and biosciences business.

Ekso Bionics exoskeleton adopted in Singapore for stroke patients.

BlueChilli launches HealthTech Accelerator for Southeast Asia.

Inovio and Plumbline Life Sciences collaborate to develop vaccine for African Swine Fever virus.

The following topics are under this section:

• Empowering the Consumer in Heart Health Management
• Game Changers – Triple-Threat Start-up Technology to shake up both Food and Biomedical industries
• The Lab report - Researchers from National University of Singapore looking to discover novel metal-based anticancer drugs with reduced toxicity.

The following topics are under this section:

• National Health Insurance and Drug Reimbursement Scheme in Taiwan
• Accelerating HealthTech Start-ups in Southeast Asia
• Cybersecurity for Healthcare in a Digital Age

The following topics are under this section:

• Preclinical data demonstrates favourable safety profile of novel anti-HER3 antibody
• Phase III clinical trial reveals positive results for cancer immunotherapy in treating the most common form of liver cancer
• Strategic partnership to bring hope to patients with fibrotic and inflammatory diseases
• Hong Kong’s first Mononuclear Cell Bank attains AABB accreditation
• Expanding reach of Biosimilar candidates in Taiwan and Hong Kong
• Developing Novel Cancer Therapies with Greater Precision
• Singapore-based MedTech Start-up raises US$ 4 million in funding
• Asia’s HealthTech Momentum Remains Strong at US$ 5 billion in 2019
• Emergex raises more than US$ 11 million in Series A Round
• Korean-based biotechnology company seals exclusive sales agreement

This paper contributes to the literature on new firms in two ways. First, by addressing new venture investment, it focusses on a largely neglected, but important, issue of new firm business decisions. Secondly, it provides a valuable picture for how investing by new businesses is going to evolve over time. Our results suggest that investments by new firms are prone to an s-shaped time pattern rather than a random, linear, or a gradually growing trajectory or a capital market-driven behavior as is assumed usually in the literature on investment decisions. By constructing a framework for future research on new venture investment, this article suggests specific research opportunities for future contributions to this body of knowledge. Based on the developed theorem, four main strands for future research can be identified, namely, (1) the empirical validation of the theorem per se, including trajectory, duration, and level of investment; (2) the link between investment and funding of the venture; (3) the link between investment and new venture development; and (4) investment as an adjustment of aggregate capital stock.

An urn-ball probabilistic model of the labor market is developed. Agents can be employed (voluntarily or involuntarily) unemployed, or entrepreneurs. The analytical long-run equilibrium probabilities for each state and the matching function are derived. In equilibrium, a higher reservation wage increases the number of start-ups, but has an overall negative impact on the unemployment rate. A more buoyant economy (higher average growth rate and higher average wages) is shown to be associated with a lower unemployment rate. Higher start-up costs discourage entrepreneurship and increase unemployment. More active search behavior leads first to a decrease in the unemployment rate, and then to a small increase, due to increased coordination failure induced by the higher number of applications sent by job seekers. The out-of-equilibrium dynamics are investigated through an agent-based simulation, which also provides results on firm demography. Important empirical regularities such as the Beveridge and the Okun curve are recovered. Finally, the simulation model is used to investigate departures from maximizing individual behavior and the effects of more realistic assumptions about profits and the business cycle.

An increasing number of start-ups, which create disruptive products, services, or platforms, is appearing within the logistics industry. Many of these start-ups are based on new technological innovations made possible by digitization. Compared with many of the start-ups founded during the “dotcom bubble”, current logistics start-ups seem to be more successful in creating lasting customer value. This paper aims to determine if the use of agile approaches, which have increased in importance in recent years, increases entrepreneurial success by means of the ability to better deal with the rapidly changing customer expectations, business model insecurities, and complex technological decisions. Due to the limited extent of empirical studies and the availability of only a few publications, an explorative multiple case study analysis has been executed to understand usage of agile approaches by German logistics start-ups and their interrelation with corporate performance. The main empirical foundation of the cases analyzed is a double-digit number of expert interviews conducted with company founders and executive managers. The findings of the multiple case study analysis demonstrate how logistics start-ups apply agile practices to deal with a high level of market insecurity and reveal how their application enhances company success. Future research should deepen these findings by analyzing more logistics start-ups and employees with different, non-management roles. It would especially be interesting to study direct competitors of those logistics start-ups interviewed to enable an analysis of discriminance and to deduce the best practices in use. The originality of the multiple case study presented lies in its contribution to the widely unexplored field of agility in logistics start-ups and the noteworthy opinions of the high-ranking interviewees.

This paper investigates the survival rates of businesses founded by immigrants and natives in the context of Norway, which has not yet been explored. Based on the relevant literature review, the entrepreneur's human capital and venture's start-up characteristics were expected to explain the differences between the survival rates of businesses established by immigrants and natives. Longitudinal data on 389 firms established in 2002 were analyzed. It was revealed that the survival rate was lower for businesses established by immigrants compared to those established by natives. The analysis suggests that the relatively low survival rate of businesses established by immigrants is partly explained by the perceived novelty of the products and by the fact that immigrants are more likely to locate their businesses in urban areas. Human capital differences were not found to explain immigrant/native differences in business survival rates. Based on these results, several practical implications and suggestions for future research are offered.

Especially established industries, like the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, rely on effective and efficient technology transfer to maintain their competitiveness. Academic spin-offs, corporate spin-outs, and internal start-ups, as different types of new ventures, can be used for technology transfer from universities and research institutions to companies as well as between or within companies. Especially internal start-ups are a new approach for company internal technology transfer from research departments to business units. Based on 12 case studies from the chemical and pharmaceutical industry in Germany and Switzerland, which were identified and developed by narrative interviews with new ventures and parent organisations, like companies, universities, and research institutions, technology transfer through new ventures has been analysed. Despite the various backgrounds and challenges, the different types of new ventures show much more similarities than dissimilarities. Therefore, learnings from academic spin-offs can be transferred to corporate spin-outs and internal start-ups in the context of technology transfer.

This paper studies the entrepreneurial optimism and debt decisions for business start-up. By analysing a sample of 160 business start-up and by using the panel data estimation, we study entrepreneurs’ optimism and its impact on debt decision of business start-up. The measure of entrepreneurial optimism is based on the entrepreneur earnings forecasts initiated by Lin et al. (2005). Meanwhile, the nature of entrepreneurial experience (serial and portfolio entrepreneur) has an effect on entrepreneurial optimism and leads to more or less optimistic entrepreneur. The results reveal that optimistic entrepreneur prefers equity in funding the financial deficit. Serial entrepreneurs tend to use more debt funding. In the dynamic model, the entrepreneur acquiring business concurrently adjusts slowly to debt ratio. Nevertheless, the sequential entrepreneurial experience leads to more optimism and so on more debt use. Given the governance role played by banks, the high adjustment cost for start-up is a consequence of the efficiency of the quality of control exercised by banks that in spite of entrepreneurial optimism, the entrepreneur does not convince the financiers to be so confident on the prospect of the business.

Purpose—The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of servant leadership on competitiveness of startups. Also, the role of self-efficacy as a mediator between servant leadership and competitiveness has been explored.

Design/methodology/approach—Servant leadership, competitiveness and self-efficacy were evaluated in an empirical study based on a sample of 220 employees of Iranian start-up companies.

The data analysis was performed through a two-stage partial least squares structural equation modeling technique. In the first stage, the measurement models were examined in terms of construct validity and reliability, while in the second stage, the structural model and research hypotheses were tested.

Findings—The results demonstrated that servant leadership positively affects competitiveness. Also, as expected, self-efficacy act as a mediating variable between servant leadership and competitiveness.

Practical implications—Start-ups nowadays constitute a large portion of countries’ financial turnover and economy. Considering the sharp increase in competitiveness and instability in the market, start-ups with transformational leadership are more likely to succeed. However, other styles, such as servant leadership, could play an essential role in guiding these startup companies on the way of competitiveness by strengthening employees’ empowerment and self-efficacy.

Originality/value—It is believed that the important contribution of this study is demonstrating the effects of servant leadership on competitiveness of startups. Also, the mediating role of self-efficacy in this relationship has been strongly confirmed.

In recent years, one of the most popular topics is the entrepreneurial innovation all over the world. Especially, in Vietnam, one of the main factors to value the success of enterprise is the entrepreneurial innovation. However, in ASEAN, compared with Malaysia and Singapore, the entrepreneurial innovation index of Vietnam is much lower. Besides this, government in Vietnam was not paying attention to start-up activities. As a result, this paper focuses not only on identifying the difficulties related to the entrepreneurial innovation but also examining the current situation of supporting the entrepreneurial innovation in Vietnam. Last but not least, this paper will provide some possible recommendations to develop the entrepreneurial innovation in Vietnam.

The life of an entrepreneur can be stressful and complex, with insecurity, risk, and hard decisions. There is a lot of stress and burnout among entrepreneurs. It seems like entrepreneurship education doesn’t prioritize human skills, in spite of the fact that they can help entrepreneurs and founders in start-ups deal with resistance. This chapter explores from the author’s perspective how you can help yourself or others become entrepreneurs “by heart,” who can navigate in complexity without getting stressed or experiencing burnout. To explore this concept, I utilize personal cases of entrepreneurship, quantum physics, and the change management method, true storytelling. The chapter focuses on how to work with your personal story, the seven principles in true storytelling, and energy as a way of becoming an entrepreneur and creating an ethical strategy.

An urn-ball probabilistic model of the labor market is developed. Agents can be employed, (voluntary or involuntary) unemployed or entrepreneurs. The analytical long run equilibrium probabilities for each state and the matching function are derived. In equilibrium, a higher reservation wage increases the number of start-ups, but has an overall negative impact on the unemployment rate. A more buoyant economy (higher average growth rate and higher average wages) is shown to be associated with a lower unemployment rate. Higher start-up costs discourage entrepreneurship and increase unemployment. More active search behavior leads first to a decrease in the unemployment rate, and then to a small increase, due to increased coordination failure induced by the higher number of applications sent by job seekers. The out-of-equilibrium dynamics are investigated through an agent-based simulation, which also provides results on firm demography. Important empirical regularities such as the Beveridge and the Okun curve are recovered. Finally, the simulation model is used to investigate departures from maximizing individual behavior and the effects of more realistic assumptions about profits and the business cycle.

An automatic start-up and shut-down control system is designed for a drum-type boiler of a fossil power plant using fuzzy logic. The control system consists of seven continuous parts and one decision maker for a sequential action. In each part of the fuzzy logic controller, the knowledge for control is acquired from the expertized operator and recorded data. The designed control system is tested via a model of a drum-type boiler of the controlled plant, the Seoul Fossil Power Plant Boiler Unit #4.