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how does one teach leadership? how does one teach someone to think more like a leader? how would you approach it, and what would you focus on?
05 May 2018 6,443 5 View
Why do business angels become angels? What is the drive or motivation behind this? Some of them were entrepreneurs - why not stick to that? What are some of the other backgrounds that angels come...
03 March 2018 4,254 2 View
Hi, I have a number of topics in entrepreneurship/ innovation that I seek collaboration on. The topics are currently listed under my preprints, and can be found there. The literature reviews are...
02 February 2018 5,684 4 View
How - in what ways - do character contribute to and have constructive outcomes and consequence? for example, character allows constructive thought... how does character mediate performance and...
01 January 1970 6,254 7 View
How do you see the relationship between mathematics and logic on the one side, and entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity on the other? There is certainly analytical thinking involved in...
01 January 1970 4,676 17 View
How much education and knowledge does the entrepreneur need? This is referring to common/ ordinary entrepreneurs - the average entrepreneur - and not "lucky stars" or "fly by nights". At the same...
01 January 1970 2,948 21 View
I frequently come across the opinion that it is difficult, or getting increasingly difficult, to develop and create new things. How true is this? Is it not simply a matter of a degradation in...
01 January 1970 9,736 45 View
What would you define as advanced entrepreneurship education and training?
01 January 1970 3,541 3 View
Are there optimization problems that require and use partial derivatives higher than the 2nd order? I.e. 3rd, 4th, 5th order partial derivatives used for and during optimization, particularly...
01 January 1970 6,808 3 View
Can higher order partial derivatives be used to move non-linear programming problems from local solutions towards the global solution? That is, Partial derivatives of order greater than 2nd order.
01 January 1970 9,791 6 View
Can higher order partial derivatives be derived or approximated from lower order partial derivatives? There is no specific equation to state the partial derivatives, but they can be measured...
01 January 1970 2,256 7 View
This may be a repeat of a previous question i asked, but i want to make such a statement in a paper, and want to evaluate if it can be refuted beforehand: Are there (non-linear) optimization...
01 January 1970 3,745 2 View
Why would an (the excel) evolutionary algorithm be better at, or simply be able to, solve what seems to be a linear problem, when the LP (and also NLP) algorithm struggle to, or simply fail...
01 January 1970 2,524 4 View
With a non-linear optimization problem, can insensitivity to the initial solution be interpreted as a global solution, or (high) probability of a global solution?
01 January 1970 2,844 4 View
With non-linear optimization, when you are interested in the different possible local solutions, because it can help you towards the optimal (global) solution, and to identify the optimal...
01 January 1970 4,213 4 View
What is the best way to choose initial solutions for a non-linear optimization problem sensitive to the initial solution? If you have a significant number of optimization problem coefficients (50...
01 January 1970 5,499 7 View
what is the best way to search or interrogate an initial solution of a non-linear optimization problem you (strongly) believe is close to the optimal solution? is there a better approach or...
01 January 1970 7,563 1 View
Can it happen that the grid size or resolution (to use such language) of the local solutions of a non-linear optimization problem are, or become, too fine for the evolutionary algorithm to pick...
01 January 1970 1,813 3 View
What impact does the initial solution have in the case of non-linear optimization problems and (solved by) evolutionary algorithms? For instance, initial solutions have an impact with linear...
01 January 1970 6,230 4 View
What is the best commercially available non-linear optimization problem evolutionary solver/ algorithm? Must be freely or easily obtainable. Not necessarily free. relatively Easy to install and...
01 January 1970 2,936 5 View
do constraints simplify or further complicate non-linear optimization problems? i think i can think of cases of both: cases where certain constraints simplify the non-linear problem, possibly by...
01 January 1970 6,236 3 View
Can sub-problems be created for nonlinear optimization problems in order to help to solve them? Would that simply constitute a customization of an evolutionary algorithm?
01 January 1970 4,741 14 View
Would the initial solution affect the "path" the evolutionary/ non-linear algorithm takes, such that an initial solution can potentially be too good? one would think that the initial solution...
01 January 1970 6,333 2 View
what is the fastest way to find the number of occurrences of x bits in y bits? is there a faster way than merely counting/ looping/ simulating them? can it be calculated or partially calculated...
01 January 1970 9,353 5 View
With a nonlinear optimization problem, would limiting the full coefficient set of x coefficients to y coefficients, with y < x, constitute searching in specific sub regions? The remaining...
01 January 1970 9,152 3 View
To what extent would creative problem solving instruction entail, cover, and transfer or result in creativity and innovation instruction? If a person has been taught creative problem solving, to...
01 January 1970 8,602 14 View
If you were to teach entrepreneurship in levels or stages, how would you do this? How many stages or levels would you have, and what would you teach at each stage or level? What would be very...
01 January 1970 2,483 25 View
In the context of innovation and creativity, and creative problem solving: can AI/ a computer/ machine replicate and conduct/ oversee creative problem solving or innovation facilitation? That is,...
01 January 1970 6,817 16 View
how would you measure *radical* innovativeness? that is, not merely innovativeness, but specifically the ability to bring about radical or disruptive or breakthrough innovation.
01 January 1970 9,866 10 View
how would you use big data for innovation, and to innovate? particularly radical innovation. how can big data facilitate and contribute to innovation?
01 January 1970 7,531 7 View
What do you perceive as good topics for applied research in entrepreneurship and innovation? Note the emphasis on applied research.
01 January 1970 9,943 21 View
How do you see the difference between innovation and entrepreneurship? If innovation is defined as the implementation of creativity, how does entrepreneurship different from innovation, or how is...
01 January 1970 7,194 16 View
How do multinationals contribute to innovation in the countries they operate in - within the subsidiary firms, and the local context? This is over and above technology adoption in general. There...
01 January 1970 4,501 6 View
what are the dimensions that determine the difference between innovation and creativity? Both innovation and creativity must have value - be valuable. Both creativity and innovation must be...
01 January 1970 5,889 24 View
any significant advancement in entrepreneurship and innovation, creativity technology you can think of? that is, technology that aids, accelerates, facilitates, etc entrepreneurship, innovation,...
01 January 1970 4,638 12 View
What hinders engagement and participation in , and openness to innovation and creativity, also innovation and creativity exercises? (Why) are all (not) willing to participate in innovation and...
01 January 1970 3,965 9 View
Does a sub or pre creativity/ innovation state exist? You have a sub-conscious and intuition, that contribute significantly to creativity/ innovation by working "in the background" and "after...
01 January 1970 9,489 14 View
What is the unique contribution of mega-projects to creativity and innovation? How do or can mega-projects impact and contribute to creativity and innovation, that ordinary or lower level projects...
01 January 1970 9,647 10 View
To what extent does hope or motivation impact and determine creativity and innovation? In this, motivation and hope are likely high(er) level constructs. What are the factors that contribute to...
01 January 1970 3,773 12 View
what are typical development levels or stages of creativity? Many things, fields, etc have development stages or levels. Leadership is a good example. The individual goes through certain stages in...
01 January 1970 2,860 35 View
What are typical innovation and creativity mistakes, faults, gaps, shortcomings? What do people miss or get wrong when it comes to creativity and innovation?
01 January 1970 6,444 3 View
Which countries are a) best and b) worst in terms of the population's dependendence on government/ independence from government, and how does this relate to creativity and innovation (performance)?
01 January 1970 9,089 2 View
what is your definition of entrepreneurship, and how does it differentiate between the entrepreneur and simply the business owner? assuming both are measurable, to what extent would 1) focus on...
01 January 1970 2,781 24 View
What would you consider as important entrepreneurship (and innovation) metrics, particularly at a national level?
01 January 1970 9,264 2 View
how would you identify industry-entrepreneurship gaps? some governments, and other players, select certain industries to support or not support, that they feel are (most) promising or outdated,...
01 January 1970 8,547 9 View
to what extent is innovation and entrepreneurship dependent on (new) knowledge? to what extent is innovation and entrepreneurship (new) knowledge creation? if the innovator or entrepreneur is...
01 January 1970 8,564 26 View
How can big data contribute to entrepreneurship research? How would you use BD to gain insight into entrepreneurship - what would you look at - and what data would you gather and utilize?
01 January 1970 4,488 16 View
Is it possible to specify upper bounds on the coefficients other than an universal or global constraint? I am using excel solver evolutionary algorithm at present. I do not know whether this is...
01 January 1970 812 2 View
What is the best/ next step if you suspect the evolutionary algorithm recombines and mutates in an inferior way, for your nonvonvex nonlinear optimization problem? Write your own heuristic? How do...
01 January 1970 1,636 5 View
How good are evolutionary algorithms with equality constraints? I must add the objective function is specified as the sum of absolutes. I need/ want to use equality constraints to guide the...
01 January 1970 9,297 3 View
With a non convex nonlinear optimization problem, would specifying the objective function as a sum of absolutes, rather than a sum of differences, make the optimization problem (significantly)...
01 January 1970 6,965 4 View
I run a nested or multi level optimization problem, because the nonlinearity is simply too much for the evolutionary algorithm. I use optimization to search an initial solution, to further search...
01 January 1970 5,198 2 View
With a non-convex non-linear optimization problem, how can you increase or amplify the remaining residual to get a better answer? The objective function or optimization problem is a...
01 January 1970 10,082 5 View
How do you measure, gauge, etc the general non-linearity of a/ your non convex non linear optimization problem? (How) can one quantify (%, number, measurement, etc) or qualify (scale, category,...
01 January 1970 3,503 2 View
Up To what resolution can non-linear optimization problem algorithms work and solve nonlinear optimization problems? I have a simulation as test case, so i know the global solution, and the...
01 January 1970 8,235 5 View
I am more and more getting the idea that i need to solve my optimization problem at 2 levels, to find the optimal solution, because of its dimensionality. The results of the lower level...
01 January 1970 435 3 View
