This book is everything you need to know and the most comprehensive ever published covering startup, innovation, and venture capital lifecycle in one volume of over 400 pages loaded with color graphs and illustration with actionable insights from over 100 experts at leading institution, including Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Google, Apple, NASA, and other scientific and academic research institution.

Corporate, Academia and Institutional Investors spend five trillion dollars a year globally on innovation, where two third of initiatives fails, this book is about reversing that. We face pressing challenges. Eco-degradation, infectious diseases and new risks brought by the misaligned resources spent on bad innovation that's challenging the human development. The solution lies by leveraging breakthroughs in technologies and sciences, along a paradigm shift in ventures capital funding, propelled by fourth industrial revolution, that enables equitable and sustainable innovation models. Moreover, the nature of innovation-driven development model demands a worldwide assessment and the reshaping of leading innovation hubs, urgently of great relevance to ensure a better tomorrow.

We are at the dawn of business management's first century. It is our challenge to capture the opportunity we have been given to ensure that those of us who seek to build the next big thing will have the how-to they need to impact the world positively, across tech, health, and science-based innovation. This book aligns "entrepreneurship, transformational innovation, ventures investing, and lucrative exit" to a rigorous footing, through emerging and proven practices, perfected by Silicon Valley's pioneers. It is a must have walkthrough "blueprint for founder seeking to launch, fund, grow or exit their startup"; along with investor, engineer, product manager; corporate "innovation, investment or acquisition team", advisor, students and academic lecturer; in need of expanding their horizons, or shortening time to market innovation.

This book is an ideal reference guide, based on first-hand insider scope of thought leadership, packed with how to design, build, launch, and grow any innovative products or services that leverage across platform emerging and deep technologies, based on the experience of prominent innovators by capturing past, current, and projected future tech transformation, with a deep dive on how innovation happens through each stage, and what to do or not to do during its execution. This shall be a prime source for anyone eager to understand or excel in innovation or venture capital

a 360- degree cycle of innovation execution "masterfully crafted in a single volume of 400 pages illustrated with over 100 colorful graphs and charts"

In The Future of Innovation, you'll learn how-to from "Idea to IPO" through five focus areas:

1. What's Innovation, its history, what's not innovation, and how to make idea disruptive


2. A deep dive into global innovation hubs and how to enables policies that drive impact


3. Walk through on building innovation with future technology that's urgently needed now


4. Launch startup, grow, and attract investor in a $30 trillion clean or impact tech market


5. When and how to exit (Acquisition, IPO, or M&A), with do/don't execution roadmap

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done". - Two Nobel laureate Marie Curie

"Green tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century". by John Doerr, of Kleiner Perkins*, Venture Capital, and early backer of Google and Amazon. The largest donor to the newly launched Stanford University School of Sustainability<*