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El presente plan consiste en importar y comercializar EcoBlue (urea líquida automotriz), esta es necesaria en vehículos pesados con sistema SCR (selective catalytic reduction) con objeto de reducir la emisión de gases contaminantes de motores diésel cumpliendo así el decreto supremo N°010-2017-MINAM (los vehículos importados desde abril 2018 deben cumplir con la norma Euro IV). Nuestro mercado potencial son las empresas que cuentan con vehículos pesados (sistema SCR), el cual creció 77% en el 2019 respecto al año anterior, en el 2020 se redujo en 25% por el COVID-19 y en el primer trimestre del 2021 se refleja una recuperación del 42% respecto al primer trimestre del 2020. Nuestro mercado objetivo son empresas no corporativas (hasta diez unidades) con sede en Lima o Callao (9,650 vehículos), estas empresas están desatendidas por proveedores enfocados en empresas corporativas o cuyo core de negocio no es la venta de urea (concesionario). Nuestra declaración de posicionamiento: “Para empresas no corporativas que cuentan con vehículos pesados con el sistema SCR, EcoBlue es la mejor opción en venta de urea líquida automotriz que ofrece el mejor servicio porque estamos pendientes de las necesidades del cliente y realizamos despacho a domicilio”, asociado a nuestra propuesta de valor. En la simulación con proyección a cinco años, obtenemos un valor actual neto de S/256,524 del flujo de caja libre (inversión 100% de capital propio), además la tasa interna de retorno resulta 43% (mayor a la tasa de descuento), luego ambos indicadores muestran que sí es viable nuestro plan. / This plan consists of importing and commercializing EcoBlue (automotive urea), this is necessary in heavy vehicles with SCR (selective catalytic reduction) system in order to reduce the emission of polluting gases from diesel engines, thus complying with supreme decree No. 010- 2017-MINAM (vehicles imported from April 2018 must comply with the Euro IV standard). Our potential market is companies that have heavy vehicles (SCR system), which grew 77% in 2019 compared to the previous year, in 2020 it decreased by 25% due to COVID-19 and in the first quarter of 2021 reflects a 42% recovery compared to the first quarter of 2020. Our target market is non-corporate companies (up to ten units) based in Lima or Callao (9,650 vehicles), these companies are neglected by suppliers focused on corporate companies or whose core business is not the sale of urea (concessionaire). Our positioning statement: "For non-corporate companies that have heavy vehicles with the SCR system, EcoBlue is the best option for the sale of automotive urea that offers the best service because we are aware of the customer's needs and carry out home delivery" , associated with our value proposition. In the simulation with a five-year projection, we obtain a net present value of S / 256,524 of the free cash flow (100% equity investment), in addition the internal rate of return is 43% (greater than the discount rate), then both indicators show that our plan is viable. / Trabajo de investigación

The purpose of this study was to determine if NCAA Division I-A football program success had a relationship to student-athlete graduation rates. Graduation rate data for 2001 were obtained from the NCAA and cumulative five-year records of selected NCAA Division I-A football programs determined winning percentage for the years 1996-2000. The data were examined by correlating the two variables of winning percentage and graduation rate. The findings show no significant correlation at a probability level of .05. The results of this study indicate the success of a football programs do not have any relationship to low football team graduation rates. Therefore, other factors such as athletic department ideals, commercialization of sport, or the preconceived notion that collegiate football athletes are only enrolled to compete in football may play a factor in graduation rates among NCAA Division I-A football players.

The ability to extend educational research beyond the research community could have a great impact on end-users such as teachers, students, or educational administrators. One way to extend the use of educational research is to create tangible educational products; such as virtual simulations, instructional videos, and printed materials; which can be easily and widely distributed. In order to transform research into products, members of the research community must adopt and implement certain product commercialization processes. Effective processes, if not recognized by members of the community, are not helpful for ensuring that quality end products are reached. Likewise, a supportive community would not be able to create successful products without clear processes for doing so. For this reason, this study relied on research on communities of practice and product commercialization to set the foundation for discovering how a product commercialization community could be established. Interviews with faculty and administrators of the McKay School of Education at Brigham Young University were conducted. Qualitative methodology was used in the analysis of the interview data to allow themes to emerge that were important to the researchers. These themes included issues of project funding, human support, time, marketing experience, interaction with existing products, faculty reward system, and community structure and communication practices. Based on analysis of the interviews, the researcher identified several guidelines that would assist administrators in strengthening a community of educational product development among the members of the research community. These guidelines included focusing on motivators other than money, improving communication among members of the community and administrators, adding structure to the existing community, and conducting “quick-win" pilot programs. While this study did not attempt to implement any of these suggestions, it is anticipated that the results will provide a useful foundation for future studies addressing the issue in greater depth.

US corporations have long recognized university related scientific research as an important source of long term economic growth and technological innovation. This dynamic involvement with industry has drastically increased the university technology transfer and licensing activities, and has stretched the human and financial resources of Technology Management and Licensing Offices of many US universities. This research provides a mechanism that can aid in the complex process of properly assessing university-owned technologies and intellectual properties, to identify those with licensing and commercialization potential for the pursuit of truly important breakthrough discoveries. This research focuses on the university technology licensing and commercialization process from the perspectives of those licensing professionals whose firms' activities are engaged in licensing-in university technologies. The objectives of this research are to: 1.Identify the decision factors and licensing determinants that influence or impact the licensing and commercialization of university technologies. 2.Build and conduct a survey among those licensing professionals involved in the technology licensing process to determine the relative importance of each of the licensing determinants identified in the literature review, and their most current and up to date selection criteria for technologies they license. 3.Develop a framework to assist the University Technology Management & Transfer Office's personnel and other stakeholders in the assessment of the potential viability of the university technologies for licensing and commercialization.

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo is a university that encourages students to approach learning hands-on. As such, there is cutting-edge technology being developed by students in all departments on campus. Being that the university possesses an outstanding biomedical engineering department, there are groundbreaking medical devices that students are creating at Cal Poly SLO. These are devices that can better the lives of individuals suffering from ailments or fulfill needs in the medical industry. Subsequently, it is vital that these devices make it out of campus laboratories and into the hands of consumers. In order to move a product from ideation to the market, numerous steps must be completed and often times, especially with the challenges of commercializing medical devices, these efforts can result in failed product launches. As such, there is demand for a commercialization process to be created at Cal Poly SLO that will aid student created medical devices in reaching the market. This paper documents the progress made thus far on such a process at Cal Poly SLO.

This dissertation engages with anthropological debates of the representation of Native peoples in performance through a series of comparative case studies that examine Native North American participation in Wild West shows. Using multi-sited ethnographic and ethnohistorical approaches, it investigates the experiences of some Native performers with the top Wild West shows historically (1885-1930), of three Mohawk families who performed in a variety of spectacles (early 1900s ), and of contemporary performers in Wild West show re-creations at EuroDisney (France) and Buffalo Bill Days (Sheridan, Wyoming, U.S.A). This research focuses on Native performers' perspectives and experiences in order to complicate the picture of exploitation and commercialization in this context. In this dissertation, rather than focusing solely on the production of stereotypes, I trace the extent and various forms of Native agency and expressions of identity through a series of encounters that occur in a Wild West show "contact zone." Drawing on the concept of transculturation, I argue that Native performers adopted and used contact zone encounters as a space to express their opinions or to maintain, express, and/or contest Native identity. I thus elucidate the various forms of agency that Native performers have wielded, whether expressive, communicative, performative, or agency of cultural projects. A "cultural projects" approach to agency considers Native performers own goals and social relationships in addition to the socio-political constraints and power relations that structure their lives. Native performers had their own cultural projects; they actively pursued the opportunities and benefits of working in Wild West shows. I argue that narratives of opportunity, success, and pride found in the employment encounter, in oral histories of Mohawk performers' experiences, and in interviews with contemporary performers, represent agency of cultural projects. Oral histories from Mohawk performers' descendants and their interpretations of the archival record were crucial for revealing and substantiating these alternative perspectives of Native experiences in Wild West shows and spectacles. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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