Accelerate Growth through Collaboration with Startups 

This is not the hype story of how cool startups are and why you should invest in them with a fund or setup an accelerator. Corporate Venturing is so much more than CVC - corporate venture capital.

The aim of this book is to provide insights in the different strategies and tactics to accelerate innovation and growth through collaboration, as well as plenty of cases as examples where these methods are successfully applied. This is not a book for people that are looking for complex innovation theories around venturing. Rather it’s a no-nonsense, ready-to-apply comprehensive guide for creating and reviewing your corporate venturing strategy as a strategic instrument to thrive in this fast changing world.

The book will provide guidance, insights, perspective and inspiration for anyone that has an interests in corporate venturing as a strategy to accelerate growth. Whether you are a large corporate or an upcoming player in the market.

Microbiological Guidelines: Support for Interpretation of Microbiological Test Results of Foods.

Food should be tasty, healthy, sustainable and preferably not too expensive. But food should also be safe and with sufficient guarantees on maintaining good quality aspects until the end-of-shelf life. The various actors in the food supply chain have an interest in verifying the expected quality and safety by means of microbiological analyses of food. Measurement brings knowledge and microbiological guidelines help in the decision-making process for judging the acceptability of food or food production processes. The present handbook provides microbiological guidelines and current applicable EU legal criteria (status 1.1.2018) for a wide range of food categories (dairy, meat, seafoods, plant-based foods, bakery products, composite foods, shelf-stable food, water) and subcategories therein, based upon the type of food processing and intrinsic characteristics of the foods. This book can be consulted to provide quick answers on the expected microbiological contamination of foodstuff. It can help in interpretation of test results in assessing good (hygienic) practices in the production of food, determining the shelf life and ensuring food safety. The handbook also presents definitions of the wide variety of foodstuffs available and some reflections on, in particular, food safety issues or the on-going debate for some food items in assessing microbial quality. Furthermore, dedicated chapters deal with basic information on the various microbial parameters useful in testing of foods, sampling is discussed, and the set-up of challenge testing as a tool to assess food safety is elaborated upon.

This in-depth introduction to the law of contracts of Mainland China was written for Western lawyers who have contacts with the People's Republic of China, for scholars and students of comparative law or of Sinology. As stated above the book is merely an introduction, not a technical legal treatise for specialised private lawyers. It is therefore useful for businessmen too.

Without using stale language, this work also places the law of contractual obligations in an historical and socio-political context. It sketches, besides the general theory of contractual obligations and the provisions on the several specific contracts, the Chinese case law on international sales contracts, as well as the law on the dispute resolution. It can be said that with regard to the private law the book opens a window on the continental Chinese legal culture, as Zweigert and Kötz would call it.

About the author

Jacques H. Herbots devoted his PhD thesis to African law. Thereafter, for many years he taught contracts, obligations and comparative law at the renowned university of Louvain. Besides his main tasks as a professor, he kept feeling the pulse of the living law as a deputy judge, as an assessor in the Belgian Council of State and as a member of the High Council for the Judiciary. He is currently still arbitrator in the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation, and he was appointed to the panel of the CIETAC in Beijing. Ever since a visit to the People's Republic in 1974, one may safely say he has been fascinated by the Empire of the Middle.

Accelerate Growth through Collaboration with Startups 

This is not the hype story of how cool startups are and why you should invest in them with a fund or setup an accelerator. Corporate Venturing is so much more than CVC - corporate venture capital.

The aim of this book is to provide insights in the different strategies and tactics to accelerate innovation and growth through collaboration, as well as plenty of cases as examples where these methods are successfully applied. This is not a book for people that are looking for complex innovation theories around venturing. Rather it’s a no-nonsense, ready-to-apply comprehensive guide for creating and reviewing your corporate venturing strategy as a strategic instrument to thrive in this fast changing world.

The book will provide guidance, insights, perspective and inspiration for anyone that has an interests in corporate venturing as a strategy to accelerate growth. Whether you are a large corporate or an upcoming player in the market.

The Digital Business Cookbook

Thanks to open source, the Cloud and API's, it is easier than ever before to build and release software products to a global audience. As a result, competition is tough, prices are under pressure. The good old recipe of just adding more functionality to your product does not work anymore.

In this book, Peter Verhasselt and Nick Boucart will explore what it takes to build winning digital products today. They’ll focus on the idea that one should stop developing software, and design digital services instead, effectively combining hyperscale with microcare: the ability to establish an intimate relationship with each and every of your thousands of users.

Peter and Nick will discuss the capabilities and processes you need to build such digital services. They zoom in on the kinds of assets you need to develop, and that will greatly influence the valuation, all supported with practical advice and real world examples.

If you are responsible for bringing digital products to the market, this book will give you a head start.

Language: English

Microbiological Guidelines: Support for Interpretation of Microbiological Test Results of Foods.

Food should be tasty, healthy, sustainable and preferably not too expensive. But food should also be safe and with sufficient guarantees on maintaining good quality aspects until the end-of-shelf life. The various actors in the food supply chain have an interest in verifying the expected quality and safety by means of microbiological analyses of food. Measurement brings knowledge and microbiological guidelines help in the decision-making process for judging the acceptability of food or food production processes.

The present handbook provides microbiological guidelines and current applicable EU legal criteria (status 1.1.2018) for a wide range of food categories (dairy, meat, seafoods, plant-based foods, bakery products, composite foods, shelf-stable food, water) and subcategories therein, based upon the type of food processing and intrinsic characteristics of the foods.

This book can be consulted to provide quick answers on the expected microbiological contamination of foodstuff. It can help in interpretation of test results in assessing good (hygienic) practices in the production of food, determining the shelf life and ensuring food safety.

The handbook also presents definitions of the wide variety of foodstuffs available and some reflections on, in particular, food safety issues or the on-going debate for some food items in assessing microbial quality. Furthermore, dedicated chapters deal with basic information on the various microbial parameters useful in testing of foods, sampling is discussed, and the set-up of challenge testing as a tool to assess food safety is elaborated upon.

How the most forward-looking organisations leverage work-life integration to attract talent and foster employee wellbeing

One Life is a must-read guide to successfully adopt work-life integration within your organisation. How can you attract and retain talent, reduce and prevent burnout, engage and motivate employees? You’ll find the answer in this book. Bursting with real examples and multidisciplinary case studies from all over the world, One Life is a fundamental reading for leaders, line-managers and small business owners alike.

The book covers all aspects of Work-Life Integration Management, from theory to practice. It contains the following:

• a framework for organisations to situate work-life issues
• a work-life integration maturity model allowing organisations to assess their current level of maturity, and learn where there is room to grow
• the fundamental elements of Work-Life Integration Management
• a whole chapter dedicated to adidas, and their work-life integration department

After reading this book you’ll be inspired to get to work and take work-life integration in your organisation to the next level.

 Commandez dès maintenant votre pack promotionnel pour les experts judiciaires ! Ce pack contient deux ouvrages :

• Nationaal register voor gerechtsdeskundigen / Registre national des experts judiciaires
• Le métier de l'expert judiciaire

§ 1. RECHTSFILOSOFIE/PHILOSOPHIE DU DROIT ‘IDEOLOGISCH-ONAFHANKELIJKE’ RECHTERS: FACTOR VAN RECHTSSTATELIJKE (DES)INTEGRATIE? QUELQUES CRITÈRES DE CLASSIFICATION DES OUTILS DE PARTICIPATION CITOYENNE À L’ORDRE JURIDIQUE LE TIRAGE AU SORT COMME MÉCANISME DE PARTICIPATION CITOYENNE S’INSCRIVANT DANS LA TRANSITION ÉCOLOGIQUE § 2. DE VERVAGENDE GRENS TUSSEN PUBLIEKRECHT EN PRIVAAT-RECHT / LA FRONTIÈRE FLOUE ENTRE DROIT PUBLIC ET DROIT PRIVÉ […]

Les lois des 10 avril 2014 et 19 avril 2017 ont institué un registre national des experts judiciaires et un code de déontologie, qui impose à l’expert judiciaire :

• le suivi d’une formation continue
• de faire assurer sa responsabilité civile

Pareilles dispositions renforcent les exigences en matière de qualification et de compétences de ces “gens de métier” que sont les experts judiciaires.

Le registre national des experts judiciaires est un recueil d'informations juridiques / législations actualisées à l'occasion du colloque consacré au registre national des experts judiciaires.

Bron van nieuwe institutionele ontwikkelingen / Sources de nouvelles évolutions institutionnelles VOORWOORD DE NIEUWE GEWEST- EN GEMEENSCHAPSBEVOEGDHEDEN IN HET TWEETALIGE GEBIED BRUSSEL-HOOFDSTAD I. Inleiding II. Het Belgisch federalisme is een asymmetrisch federalisme geënt op vier taalgebieden III. Bevoegdheden in Brussel: “Er is genoeg voor iedereen …” A. Op het vlak van de bevoegdheden worden alle […]

Nowadays every company (corporates, startups and scaleups) wants to make products that sell. Through innovation and creativity we want to make the best products, but often with varying degrees of success. Nevertheless, with some simple techniques and strategies one can significantly increase the probability and size of success of his product or service.

Based on 20 years of hands-on experience at Barco nv (ClickShare and Virtual Reality within Barco), Yoav Nir explains these concrete techniques and strategies. The methodology that the author brings is, with the book as a guide and more than 80 tips, quickly useful in practice. The theory is supplemented with many cases. It is primarily a “how to” book and a lesson learned, based on in-depth analysis and reflection. As a result, it’s an inspiring complement to existing international reference works (Osterwalder, Ries,...).

The book focuses on both startups and scaleups, as well as on larger corporates where entrepreneurship can lead to new, innovative products and services.

L’Association belge pour le droit du travail et de la sécurité sociale (ABETRASS) a consacré sa biennale du droit social 2016 à la thématique des sources du droit social. Face à un objet aussi vaste, les actes que l’on tient entre les mains contiennent aussi bien des vues d’ensemble à caractère panoramique que des analyses ciblées sur une question ou un instrument juridiques particuliers. De même, les textes ont trait tantôt au droit du travail, tantôt au droit de la sécurité sociale, tantôt encore au droit social dans son ensemble.

Chevillées à ces perspectives, non moins de six thématiques générales sont successivement envisagées. Il s’agit de :

• l’autonomie du droit social comme discipline juridique,
• de la hiérarchie de ses normes,
• de la (non-)codification de la matière,
• des éventuels principes généraux qui lui seraient propres,
• des influences européennes et internationales sur son évolution
• de diverses sources formelles particulières telles l’usage, les accords d’entreprise transnationaux ou encore, parmi d’autres, les règlements de pension.

L’Association belge pour le droit du travail et de la sécurité sociale a souhaité dédier sa biennale 2016 à la mémoire de cette grande dame du droit social que fut Micheline Jamoulle, ancienne professeure de droit du travail à l’Université de Liège. C’est pourquoi l’ouvrage s’ouvre par la bibliographie de la dédicataire, ainsi que par une présentation de son oeuvre en guise d’hommage.

La sagesse populaire le dit: nous aimons mieux ce que nous connaissons mieux.

Or, qui ne s'est jamais ouvert sur la complexité des rouages de l’État belge ? Sur l'incapacité d'en expliquer simplement les structures, voire même d'en comprendre les principes ? Où trouver de l'aide ?

Ici et maintenant, avec "La Belgique pour débutants".

Ce guide indispensable répond à une démarche citoyenne: mener précisément le lecteur au travers du labyrinthe que constitue le fonctionnement des administrations et institutions belges.

Rédigée par des témoins réputés de notre temps, cette nouvelle édition présente de nombreux schémas, résumés et illustrations qui la rendent encore plus attrayante et intelligible.

Place à la clarté, tant pour les gens de métier que pour toute personne soucieuse de ses droits et de ses libertés, désirant s'inscrire activement dans la société qu'elle chérit.

“A contemporary strategy for grand goal achievement”

This book is not meant to come up with the typical ten point plan that you find in the plethora of books on “how to…” or “finding the shortcut to…”. It is simply not realistic to impose the one and only way to become a performance beast. We cannot be made immune to personal emotions and our brains work in a very unique way and therefore it seems illogical to accept the restrictions of such ten-point-plans. Dixie Dansercoer surely does not want to preach, generalise or standardise training methods to manipulate people into becoming high performers. Our brains may be trained just like muscles, but people cannot be as easily manipulated as flesh and bones.

The goal is to provide the reader with inspirational insights with respect to high performance, provide him/her with practical guidelines and stories to be read and shared without drowning in all-too-academic theories. The red line of polar exploration allows the author to write from the heart with accounts of his direct experiences. When confronted with the monotony of infinite white, wide-open spaces, one cannot but study the mental and psychological impact of these ambitious expeditions.

Do you have the dedication, discipline and concentration to finish what you set out to do? To be a high performer?

Un expert judiciaire a peu à voir avec la justice !

Oui, à bien y réfléchir, un expert judiciaire a peu à voir avec la justice. Et c’est plutôt « tant mieux ! » car il s’agit d’un professionnel qualifié en tout domaine autre que le droit. Sinon, il serait juriste ou avocat. À bien des égards, ce technicien habilité par un juge pour donner un avis éclairé sur des faits précis - avis susceptible de dénouer une affaire - constitue l’élément neutre (et peut-être bien le seul) d’un tribunal.

Car, contrairement à la croyance populaire, selon Jean Giraudoux « jamais poète n’a interprété la nature aussi librement qu’un juriste la réalité. » Conscient d’intervenir dans un contexte profondément humain, c’est-à-dire passionnel, l’expert judiciaire s’interdit par conséquent de livrer un sentiment ou de juger. Par contre, il jauge, contextualise, explique, précise, détaille…

Du coup, son comportement cartésien ne sera pas forcément des plus bienvenu. Aussi, pour accomplir sa mission d’auxiliaire des tribunaux, l’expert doit se forger une aptitude propre à surmonter les embûches de la procédure, des stratégies et des émotions des parties ; et ainsi faire face aux enjeux du litige pour, in fine, dégager une « vérité du fait » qui induira la « vérité du droit » ; ce que propose ce livre.

Outre le traitement de nombreuses questions, l’ouvrage aide aussi tous ceux qui se passionnent pour le sujet - spécialistes, étudiants et néophytes - à mieux appréhender la mission de l’expert judiciaire, sa gestion, son cadre juridique et la formulation de son rapport. Ainsi armé, le lecteur pourra reprendre à son compte la pensée de Saint-Paul : « le monde serait meilleur si vous l’étiez ».