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JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
start-up when it comes to implementation phase of business
establishment is variability, exchange of phases. The most
valuable about start-up is not the thought itself, idea of
experimental workplace, but the team of people, who works on
this thought and help to form it. In case, company wants to break
through and succeed on new markets must bring new innovative
ideas, difficult to copy. These ideas, knowledge and thoughts are
in result product of science and development. As key points are
considered phases of implementation starting from development,
through service, design of a product until marketing and finance.
Considering analysis of answers of companies, we can state that
the foundation of successful establishment of start-up work
places is to invent successful product, launch it on a local market
and after the demand grows expand the product internationally.
6 Conclusions
Business model design is critical for a start-up. A successful
design must be developed and tested with limited resources and
under conditions of great uncertainty related to both internal and
external factors. At the same time, this lack of definition is an
excellent opportunity for business model innovation. In this
paper, we present the Innovation Pivot Framework, a practical
tool aimed at assisting entrepreneurs in identifying alternative
uses of their innovation and deciding which applications and
target markets they should pursue first. This process leads to a
formulation of the source of competitive advantage based on the
innovation envisioned. This tool may be useful both at the first
moment of a start-up’s conceptualization and when the new
venture needs to redefine its competitive advantage. Beyond the
area of entrepreneurship, it could also be an effective analysis
tool to achieve better business model designs in well-established
companies.
In order to release correct innovation project (business model) in
which it is suitable to invest financial and other means and effort
with an aim of final commercialisation, becomes an important
requirement for business and management of every organisation
(production, guidance, services, etc.) in an environment of
globalisation and internalisation of markets and customers.
Each control, every decision step in innovation project (business
model) it should meet these objectives:
Release resources for further studies of semi - finished new
product, process. Verify latest achievements of requested quality
results. Investigate possibility of suggested progress in the next
step. Set priority solutions (advantageous source assignment).
Innovation project (business model) should be finished by
assessing implementation success of its solution, so detailed and
persuasive answers for these questions were obtained:
What main results might be achieved by realisation of
innovation project (business model)?
What comes from observations of these results with project
objectives?
What was success, what was not, what would be appropriate
to do differently?
What lesson comes from realisation of innovation project?
What other precautions are necessary to improve
competitiveness of new product?
What really are start-ups? Given term appears very often in
business environment. Many, however, do not know what this
English term describes, or what project can be addressed as a
start-up and which „only “a starting business is. Even though
this term has started to appear in Slovakia only recently, its
meaning and popularity started to raise very evenly. Especially
young and innovation thinking businessmen have found
themselves in this concept, where there is no condition to only
purchase, produce, fixed to stone shops.
Find universal definition for start-up project models is clear or
slightly difficult. However, in general they are understood as
innovative, therefore very quickly developed, especially
technologically oriented companies with global potential and
high level of "scale" and ability, or possibility of sudden
expansion reacting to actual needs and possibilities of
development of market and costumers.
Characteristic attribute of start-ups are as follows:
Low starting costs,
Innovation in certain area,
Higher business risk on one side, potentially higher return of
investments on the other side.
Important is also legal framework. Legal order of Slovak
Republic is not familiar with the term start up, this should be
chained shortly. From the legal point it is understood as newly
started business (or the business in the process of establishment),
which will attempt to materialise or materialises certain thought
into productive (process) form. Added value should lead to
exceptionality on a market and problem solving, where solution
have not been found yet. From the long-term point, emphasise is
put on ability to scale company based on products, processes,
services with them aim to provide them later on a market.
Start-up project (business model) must include:
Technological or research base,
Information technologies for sale,
Offer services.
Practise has showed so far, that start up projects with more
people participating on them have bigger chance to succeed on a
market, compare to those who start to establish business on their
own. Work in a team is however more important than work of an
individual. Due to a stated reason, success of a business is
influenced not only by creating the team but also by correct
relations within team. In this paper, we will not discuss any other
incentives, questions that exist in this situation and are tractate. It
will be the next step of our research: e.g. possible new forms of
start-ups, establishment of a start-up, investor relations, failures,
causes of start-up failures, etc.
Big challenge for exercising and development of start-ups in
business in Slovakia are so called Eco-innovations. Even in this
field it is held, that thought, idea or simply creative thinking
might be, even must be immanent part of a business. Due to
living conditions of a planet getting worse, which is mainly fault
and way of not respecting rightfulness in creation and protection
of environment, it is necessary to support development of start-
up ecosystem in Slovakia, in a sense of prepared governmental
conception. It can be achieved by stimulating of business
environment, system of state support and forming or improving
legislation in this area. We believe these matters may activate
Slovak subjects and individuals with unique ideas, attract foreign
subjects with innovative ideas, also make investing into start-ups
more attractive and form adequate image of Slovakia in
international context.
Outlined and stated way of start-up development in general, but
also in connection with ecosystem in Slovakia faces many
barriers, obstacles and blocks. For example, poor offer of
financial and non-financial tools, insufficient connection of start-
up community with science institutions or universities. Another
barrier is also low level of mutual cooperation of individual
members of Slovak start-up ecosystem, non-sufficient business
skills, low motivation and also low interest in entrepreneurship
as a career choice. These barriers need to be overcome in
Slovakia.
Enterprises are forced to research and development to
compensate for other activities, such as alternatives. The creation
of start-ups, start-up offices. This form of alternative research
and development companies also require substantial capital. The
most commonly beginning of start-ups interested large
corporations, which have a fixed market background and
profitable. Start-up businesses to create workplaces of the
problem, and quickly when needed alternative solutions tasks. A
good initial idea or ideas that the firm may obtain participation
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