Martin bell biography
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Martin Bell
Martin Bell is startup architect, investor and global thought leader.
In the course of his career, Martin Bell played a key role in building 50 startups at Rocket Internet. As founder & CEO of Bell Ventures, he advises established corporations across all industries on the strategic issues concerning their future. His unparalleled expertise has allowed him to develop his own playbook for innovation, called “100 Task Startup”.
For Martin, “digital transformation”, “agile working principles”, and “startup culture” are not buzzwords, but instead they capture his first-hand experience. In his keynotes, workshops, and panels, he electrifies his international audiences with his deep know-how, his rare gift for storytelling, and his action-oriented aura. Audience members learn new tools that enable them to take their entrepreneurial projects into their own hands.
As a Harvard alumnus and board member, Martin Bell enjoys fostering next generation’s talent in Berlin, wh
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Prof Martin Bell
Biography
I was originally trained as a historian and economist, and joined SPRU in 1968, working originally on technical change and its implications for skills in the UK engineering industry. An opportunity to lead a project in Thailand in the early 1970s led to my subsequent career in research, teaching and policy consultancy concerned with technology and industrialisation - mainly in Asia and Latin amerika. My research has centred on four interconnected sets of policy and management issues:
- technological learning and the accumulation of technological capabilities in firms;
- international technology transfer and its role in strengthening capabilities;
- knowledge networks and innovation systems;
- foreign direkt investment and its interaction with learning and innovation in host economies.
I have undertaken numerous consultancy and advisory projects for international agencies and national governments. The former have included the World Bank, The European Co
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Martin Bell (poet)
English poet
Vincent Martin Oliver Bell (2 February 1918 – 1 February 1978) was an English poet who was a key member of The Group, an informal group of poets who met in London from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.
Biography
[edit]Bell was born in Hampshire, England. He attended the University of Southampton, then called University College, Southampton, where he read for an external London Honours degree in English, followed in 1939 by a diploma in Education. He served from 1939 to 1946 with the Royal Engineers in Lebanon, Syria and Italy.
From the mid-1950s, Bell became a member of The Group in London, having been introduced by Peter Redgrove following a chance meeting outside Chiswick Library. Bell regularly attended The Group's meetings until leaving for Leeds in 1967, and was influential in its workings. He was later described by Philip Hobsbaum as "much older than the rest of us, and much the best linguist;" and by Peter Porter as "the father and t