TY - JOUR T1 - Global Market Entry for Finnish SME eCommerce Companies JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marko Mäki A1 - Tuija Toivola KW - Digital disruption KW - eCommerce KW - Global eCom KW - internationalization KW - university cooperation AB - The aim of this paper is to contribute to knowledge about the expansion of eCommerce (eCom) operations by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to global markets. We investigate the literature on eCom and reflect on our experiences working with several Finnish eCom companies and consulting firms to boost their global sales. In addition, one important goal of our study was to acquire knowledge and boost participants' learning of fast growing digital business models. Our findings show that digital disruption and digitalization in general are driving forces behind eCom growth. The study's conclusions underline the importance of targeted marketing activities, knowledge sharing, and capability building for global eCom operations. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 11 UR - timreview.ca/article/1413 IS - 1 U1 - Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences Marko Mäki, Lic.Sc.(econ), Principal Lecturer, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Finland Lic. Sc. (Econ) Marko Mäki is currently working as a Principal Lecturer (marketing & service development) at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Finland. His main areas of expertise and research interests are in service concept and process development, service design and servicescape development issues in service management as well as in digital channels. Marko has been involved in E-commerce development and research projects for the last 10 years and has published several research and conference papers on this theme. U2 - Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences Tuija Toivola, Ph.D, R&D Manager, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Finland Tuija Toivola Ph.D. is currently working as an R&D manager at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Finland. Her main areas of expertise are business models, business networks, digital services, and the sharing economy. Tuija Toivola has over 15 years experience in R&D activities as a project leader and developer of new business concepts. In addition, she has worked as a business consultant and speaker at business seminars and training programs. She completed her Ph.D. in business networks and strategic partnerships at the University of Vaasa in 2005. She has a Master of Science in marketing from the Turku School of Economics. Tuija has published two books, several articles and conference papers, and also has a certificate in vocational teacher education. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Giving Science Innovation Systems a 'Nudge' JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kirsty de Jong A1 - Urs Daellenbach A1 - Sally Davenport A1 - Jarrod Haar A1 - Shirley Leitch KW - behavioural economics KW - behavioural science KW - choice architecture KW - innovation policy KW - mission-led science KW - research impact. AB - In this article we consider the role that contextual factors play in science innovation systems – that is, the choice architecture, that influences the orientation and outcomes of publicly-funded research. More specifically, we examine how choice architects, particularly policymakers and funding administrators, can affect the decision-making behaviour of researchers. The context for today’s science innovation systems continues to shift as governments seek solutions to the world’s “grand societal challenges”, such as climate change and ageing populations, in addition to greater and more demonstrable impact from funded research. This means that the assumptions of “basic research [being] performed without thought of practical ends” (Bush, 1945) that have shaped such projects, actually run counter to the growing expectations of greater commercialisation and use of multidisciplinary mission-led approaches. We argue that a closer examination of the choice architecture for publicly-funded research is required to understand and address how these potentially conflicting objectives may be pursued most productively through interventions that could form the basis of a novel, behaviourally-based toolkit for science innovation policy. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 9 UR - https://timreview.ca/article/1275 IS - 10 U1 -

Victoria Business School

Kirsty de Jong is an early career researcher in the ‘Science for Technological Innovation’ National Science Challenge based out of the Victoria Business School in Wellington, New Zealand. Her research focuses on the behavioural aspects of the 30+ “high risk and reward” Seed projects and the larger Rangatahi (youth-led) Spearhead project involved in the Challenge. Prior to joining the Challenge, Kirsty was with The Behavioural Insights Team - a social purpose research company who advise on, and redesign public services using behavioural science. She has a Master’s in Museum and Heritage Practice from Victoria University of Wellington.

 

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Victoria University of Wellington

Urs Daellenbach is a Reader in Management at Victoria University of Wellington’s business school. His research interests have focused on value creation and capture, drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, with specific emphasis on contexts associated with strategic decision making for R&D and innovation. He has published in leading journals including Strategic Management Journal; R&D Management; Long Range Planning; Industrial & Corporate Change; and the Journal of Management Studies and Strategic Organization. With Dr Katharina Ruckstuhl, he is a co-Leader of the Building New Zealand’s Innovation Capacity Spearhead in the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge.

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Victoria University Business School 
 
Sally Davenport is a Professor of Management at Victoria University Business School. On the strength of her research into sustainable collective productivity in New Zealand firms, she was appointed a Commissioner at the New Zealand Productivity Commission in 2011. Professor Davenport’s publications include topics such as technology management; strategic discourse; R&D management and science; and public policy. She has led large research grants covering projects on competitive advantage in NZ firms, and sustainability and firm-level productivity in NZ’s biotechnology and food and beverage sectors. Professor Davenport is now the Director of the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge.
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Auckland University of Technology

Professor Jarrod Haar (PhD) is of Ngati Maniapoto/Ngati Mahuta descent and is a Professor of Human Resource Management at AUT in New Zealand. His research includes (1) work-life balance; (2) indigenous (Maori) and minority employees, (3) leaders and followers; (4) wellbeing, and (5) entrepreneurship and R&D. Professor Haar is a world-class ranked researcher; has won Industry and best-paper awards; research grants (Marsden, FRST) and is currently on a National Science Challenge (Science for Technological Innovation) and a Marsden Grant (Living Wage). He has over 375 refereed outputs (91 articles) and convenes the NZ Marsden Fund panel on Economics and Human Behaviour.

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Australian National University

Professor Shirley Leitch holds a Professorial Fellowship at the ANU Australian Studies Institute. Much of her research has focused on science-society engagement in relation to controversial science and technology. Her publications include the book, Social Media and Public Relations: Fake Friends and Powerful Publics which received the 2016 US National Communication Association PRIDE Award for best book. Professor Leitch’s research teams have received more than $5m in national competitive grants across Australasia. She co-founded the successful, education technology company, Online Education Services (OES) in partnership with SEEK which was recognised as Australia's fastest growing company in the BRW Fast 100 in 2015.

ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Gender-Specific Constraints on Academic Entrepreneurship and Engagement in Knowledge and Technology Transfer JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2018 A1 - Anna Sinell A1 - Roda Müller-Wieland A1 - Antonia Muschner KW - academic entrepreneurship KW - academic spin-offs KW - gender KW - qualitative study KW - research-based companies AB - This article analyzes gender-specific constraints impacting scientists’ engagement in knowledge and technology transfer and entrepreneurial activities at public research institutions in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). To this end, we followed an exploratory case study approach and conducted qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 40 academic entrepreneurs. The analysis revealed constraints impacting scientists’ active engagement in transfer and entrepreneurship on two levels. On the meta-level, we identified constraints related to: i) nationwide transfer culture and ii) funding guidelines and structures. On the operational level, we identified constraints related to: i) organizational strategies and practices; ii) organizational culture; and iii) individual attributes and attitudes. By analyzing gender differences among these constraints, the study contributes to an understanding of varying needs for gender-specific founding support programs. The study also derives several implications for managing transfer at research organizations. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 8 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1136 IS - 2 U1 - Fraunhofer IAO Anna Sinell is a Senior Scientist at the Center for Responsible Research and Innovation at Fraunhofer IAO in Berlin, Germany. Her research focus lies on knowledge and technology transfer, especially with regards to the analysis of academic entrepreneurship. She recently completed her PhD dissertation on the topic of “Strategies for Fostering Academic Entrepreneurship” at Technische Universität Berlin. Through her interdisciplinary studies of psychology and engineering, she gained multiple competencies in fields of empirical testing methods and techniques. U2 - Fraunhofer IAO Roda Müller-Wieland is a Research Assistant at the Center for Responsible Research and Innovation at Fraunhofer IAO in Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on the analysis of organizational culture, change and innovation processes, as well as on academic entrepreneurship in the context of knowledge and technology transfer. In her research, gender equality is taken into account as a cross-cutting theme. She holds an MSc in Psychology from Stellenbosch University in South Africa and the University of Hamburg, Germany, through which she gained multiple competencies in qualitative research methods and techniques. U3 - Fraunhofer IAO Antonia Muschner is a Research Assistant at the Center for Responsible Research and Innovation at Fraunhofer IAO in Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on various aspects of knowledge and technology transfer such as academic entrepreneurship, university–industry cooperation, and new formats of collaboration in innovation ecosystems. Furthermore, she was involved in projects looking at gender equality in German academia. She holds an MA in Sociology of Technology and has studied both sociology and cultural studies with a focus on qualitative research methods, sustainable innovation, and entrepreneurship in Berlin, Frankfurt/Oder, and Warsaw. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Governing Quintuple Helix Innovation: Urban Living Labs and Socio-Ecological Entrepreneurship JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bastiaan Baccarne A1 - Sara Logghe A1 - Dimitri Schuurman A1 - Lieven De Marez KW - distributed innovation KW - quintuple helix innovation KW - social ecology KW - socio-ecological entrepreneurship KW - urban living labs AB - Growing urbanization puts pressure on both social and ecological systems. This pressure raises complex and multi-facetted challenges that can only be tackled by collaborative and distributed innovation development processes. However, theoretical frameworks that assess such collaborations are often very conceptual, with little focus on the actual governance mechanisms that facilitate them. This article studies the urban living lab concept as an inter-organizational design and multi-stakeholder innovation development process to govern the quintuple helix model for innovation by means of an action research based multidimensional case study design, which focuses on the concepts of innovation democracy, mode 3 knowledge production, the innovation ecosystem as a system of societal subsystems, and socio-ecological transition. In this way, we provide a more profound understanding of such innovation processes to tackle socio-ecological challenges by means of public–private interactions driven by eco-entrepreneurship. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/972 IS - 3 U1 - iMinds – MICT – Ghent University Bastiaan Baccarne is a Research and Teaching Assistant at iMinds-MICT, a research group within the communications department of Ghent University, where he works on the topic of user-centric innovation development in the context of (new) media and ICT. Bastiaan is also a PhD student working on citizen empowerment through the co-development of socio-technical innovations in an urban environment. Being part of iMinds Living Labs, Bastiaan works as a user researcher for several SME and startup projects, with an overall academic focus on the possibilities and limitations of user-centric innovation development ecosystems. U2 - iMinds – MICT – Ghent University Sara Logghe obtained a master’s degree in both History and Communication Sciences with specialization in New Media and Society at Ghent University. Her second master's thesis was Cultural Communication on the Internet: A Study on the Potential of Social Media for Cultural Institutions. A three-month internship at iMinds Living Labs encouraged her interest in research on living labs, and in May 2013, Sara joint iMinds-MICT as a Junior Researcher. Working on cultural projects within living lab research, Sara developed a specific interest in the changing library scene. U3 - iMinds – MICT – Ghent University Dimitri Schuurman holds a PhD (2015) and Master's in Communication Sciences (2003) from Ghent University in Belgium. He joined the research group iMinds – MICT – Ghent University in 2005 and started working at iMinds Living Labs in 2009. Together with his iMinds colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific living lab offering targeted at startups and SMEs, in which he has managed over 50 innovation projects. As a senior researcher, Dimitri is currently responsible for the methodology and academic valorization of living lab projects. He also coordinates a dynamic team of living lab researchers from iMinds – MICT – Ghent University. His main interests and research topics are situated in the domains of open innovation, user innovation, and innovation management. In early 2015, he finished his PhD entitled Bridging the Gap between Open and User Innovation? Exploring the Value of Living Labs as a Means to Structure User Contribution and Manage Distributed Innovation. U4 - iMinds – MICT – Ghent University Lieven De Marez is Research Director of the iMinds Media & ICT (MICT) research group and teaches on the topics of innovation research, media, market and ICT, and new communication technologies in the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University in Belgium. MICT is one of 16 research groups within iMinds, and Lieven is also part of the management team of iMinds Living Labs’ facilitating infrastructure for living lab research. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Governance Solutions for Wicked Problems: Metropolitan Innovation Ecosystems as Frontrunners to Sustainable Well-Being JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Timo J. Hämäläinen KW - cities KW - complexity KW - governance KW - sustainability KW - well-being KW - wicked problem AB - The growing specialization and interdependence of societies as well as their rapid technological and economic transformation have increased the level of uncertainty and complexity in decision making and the role of wicked problems in policy making. This article analyzes the nature and evolution of wicked problems and argues that they stem from the gap between the complexity of the policy problem and the variety of the corresponding governance arrangements. This complexity gap can be closed with new governance solutions that include participation, interaction, and cooperation among stakeholders; collective learning processes; coordination by mutual adjustment and clear systemic direction, decentralization, diversity, and experimentation; and effective measures to overcome system rigidities and development bottlenecks. For several reasons, cities and metropolitan areas provide ideal ecosystems for addressing wicked problems. They have the requisite variety of resources, capabilities and services, physical proximity that facilitates rich face-to-face communication, learning and cooperation, as well as the right scope for producing and experimenting with the necessary public goods and services. The article concludes by arguing that Finland could become a global frontrunner in solving wicked problems in policy making by adopting a strategy of sustainable well-being. This strategy would build on the world-class well-being knowledge within the Finnish welfare state and the rapidly growing international research on subjective well-being and happiness. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/935 IS - 10 U1 - Sitra Timo Hämäläinen is a Fellow in the Strategy Unit of Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, and he is a Docent (Adjunct Professor) of International Business in the University of Eastern Finland. He has also been a visiting scholar in the OECD, Paris, and the Wilson Center, Washington, DC. He holds an MSc in Marketing from Aalto University (Helsinki School of Economics) in Finland and an MBA and a PhD in International Business from Rutgers University in New Jersey, United States. Timo’s research has focused on organizational strategy and theory, institutional economics, long socio-economic cycles, social and institutional innovation, everyday life and well-being, public-sector governance, as well as innovation and industrial policy. His most recent research projects have centered on the changing nature of well-being in advanced societies, sustainable socio-economic model and the development of new business ecosystems. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Grey Areas Between Open and Closed in Innovation Networks JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Seppo Leminen A1 - Taija Turunen A1 - Mika Westerlund KW - closedness KW - innovation KW - innovation network KW - Living lab KW - Open innovation KW - openness AB - This study argues that there are different degrees of openness and closedness in innovation activity, and it highlights the need for more research on the "grey areas" between totally open and totally closed innovation, particularly in innovation networks where multiple stakeholders collaborate for innovation. Here, we focus on four key aspects of innovation networks, as characterized by their degrees of openness or closedness: governance, motivation, interaction, and innovation practices. The categorization is based on a review of theory and an empirical analysis of three distinct innovation networks, two of which represent the open living lab model, and one of which exemplifies the traditional closed innovation model. Our results can help managers improve efficiency in innovation networks by better understanding the grey areas between open and closed in innovation. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/948 IS - 12 U1 - Laurea University of Applied Sciences Seppo Leminen holds positions as Principal Lecturer at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the School of Business at Aalto University in Finland. He holds a doctoral degree in Marketing from the Hanken School of Economics and a doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering and management in the School of Science at Aalto University. His research and consulting interests include living labs, open innovation, value co-creation and capture with users, relationships, services and business models in marketing, particularly in Internet of Things (IoT), as well as management models in high-tech and service-intensive industries. Results from his research have been reported in Industrial Marketing Management, the Journal of Technology and Engineering and Management, Management Decision, the International Journal of Technology Management, the International Journal of Technology Marketing, the International Journal of Product Development, and the Technology Innovation Management Review, among many others. U2 - Aalto University Taija Turunen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Studies at Aalto University's School of Business in Finland. Taija holds a doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Aalto University's School of Science. During her academic career, Taija has managed several research projects in the area of service operations management and service innovation. Before joining academia, Taija worked as a management consultant in the field of industrial service operations. U3 - Carleton University Mika Westerlund, DSc (Econ), is an Associate Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He previously held positions as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley and in the School of Economics at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Mika earned his doctoral degree in Marketing from the Helsinki School of Economics in Finland. His current research interests include open and user innovation, the Internet of Things, business strategy, and management models in high-tech and service-intensive industries. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Generative Innovation Practices, Customer Creativity, and the Adoption of New Technology Products JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2014 A1 - Stoyan Tanev A1 - Marianne Harbo Frederiksen KW - co-creation KW - customer creativity KW - customer value KW - entrepreneurship KW - innovation KW - technology adoption AB - We offer a critical reflection on one of the key reasons for the startlingly low success rate of innovation initiatives worldwide – the fact that the interactive environment surrounding the customer is a critical part of the adoption process; it can and should be designed in a way that enables customer creativity, and thus adoption. In this article, we embrace a definition of innovation as “the adoption of a new practice by a community” where the innovator is the one who does not only sense and move into new opportunities but also mobilizes all the necessary resources needed by customers to adopt a new practice. The emphasis on adoption merges together innovation and entrepreneurship by shifting the focus from the inventor and the designer, through the entrepreneur, to the ultimate recipient of the innovative outcomes. Looking at customers as co-creators is critically important for technological product adoption; missing the chance to enable their creativity is equivalent to missing the opportunity of seeing them for who they really are. The result is a distorted vision that is ultimately rooted in the misconception of the dynamics of customer value. We particularly emphasize two points: i) the increasing degree of complexity of everyday technological products requires a higher degree of creativity by customers to adopt; and ii) customer creativity is not only a function of user-technology interaction, it is a function of the various actors in the interactive environment surrounding the customer such as other customers, other technologies, local distributors, customer/technical support providers, and competitors. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 4 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/763 IS - 2 U1 - University of Southern Denmark Stoyan Tanev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology and Innovation and member of the Centre for Integrative Innovation Management at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, as well as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he was previously a faculty member in the Technology Innovation Management Program. He has a MSc and a PhD in Physics jointly from the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France and the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, a PhD in Theology from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, an MEng in Technology Management from Carleton University, Canada, and an MA from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. He has multidisciplinary research interests with a focus on the fields of technology innovation management, born global technology startup business model development and value co-creation. Dr. Tanev is Senior IEEE member and member of the Review Board of the Technology Innovation Management Review. U2 - University of Southern Denmark Marianne Harbo Frederiksen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology and Innovation and a member of the Centre for Integrative Innovation Management at the University of Southern Denmark. Currently, she is also a PhD student focusing on creative processes and outcomes in connection with new product development and adoption and therefore the linkages between creativity and innovation. She has an MSc in Architecture from the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark, with a specialization within industrial design and product development. She has been co-owner of a design company and has worked in and together with several industries as a designer and R&D Manager as well as an adviser in public-private research projects focusing on user experience, experience designing, and other aspects of product development. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Government of India's Role in Promoting Innovation through Policy Initiatives for Entrepreneurship Development JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ravindra Abhyankar KW - economic growth KW - entrepreneurship KW - government KW - India KW - innovation KW - innovation ecosystem KW - policy AB - In spite of having a large publicly funded science and technology infrastructure and a sizeable education base, India has not been able to realize its innovative potential due to a fragmented innovation ecosystem. The government of India has taken many initiatives towards strengthening the innovation ecosystem, the most important of which are: i) the establishment of the National Innovation Council, whose mandate is to coordinate various innovation-related activities, and ii) the new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2013, which is intended to promote entrepreneurship and science-led solutions for sustainable and inclusive growth. With a focus on this new policy initiative, this article describes the current innovation ecosystem and the challenges it faces, and it discusses the efforts made by the government towards the promotion of innovation for entrepreneurship development and sustainable growth. With the implementation of this new policy the early indications are that India is poised to take a big leap towards innovation-led growth. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 4 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/818 IS - 8 U1 - Ravindra Abhyankar is an Electrical Engineer who has worked in the Government of India in various capacities. After working for 17 years in the Ministry of Defense (1974–1990) in the field of quality assurance, technical development, and indigenization of various fighter aircraft and other aeronautical systems, he joined the Ministry of Science and Technology in the Department of Scientific and Industrial research (DSIR). In this ministry, he handled various responsibilities such as administering fiscal incentives for R&D and supporting innovation at the individual and industrial levels for over 20 years (1990–2011). He was the nodal officer in the Government of India for the Asian and Pacific Center for Transfer of Technology (APCTT), which is a United Nations initiative dedicated to capacity building of Asia-Pacific countries to nurture and promote national innovation systems and also to create enabling environments for the development and transfer of technology and R&D management. He has also functioned as an Adviser to the Science and Technology Minister of Mozambique (2012–2014) in the creation of a publicly funded R&D system for the benefit of Mozambican industry. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Going Open: Does it Mean Giving Away Control? JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Nadia Noori A1 - Michael Weiss KW - and collaboration KW - governance KW - Open innovation KW - open source KW - platforms KW - regulatory tools AB - Open source software has evolved from being an effort driven by a collective of volunteers to become an integral part of commercial software. Constant demands for new features besides maintaining product quality made companies seek open source as an answer for these demands. These growing demands brought with them control of quality, architecture, contribution management, and community management. This article explores the governance strategies adopted by open source software projects to manage the quality of complements (such as plug-ins that extend a platform's functionality) developed by community members outside the core team. The outcomes of the research contribute to our understanding of the strategies followed by different open source platform owners (the open source project initiators) to manage external innovation in the case of platform extensions in two areas: i) governance models and ii) regulatory tools. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/647 IS - 1 U1 - Coral CEA Nadia Noori holds an MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests includes open source platforms, governance models and collaboration frameworks, and product architecture and design. She works currently as a Production and Platforms Manager at Coral CEA, a not-for-profit organization based in Ottawa. U2 - Carleton University Michael Weiss holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, and is a member of the Technology Innovation Management program. His research interests include open source ecosystems, mashups/Web 2.0, business process modeling, social network analysis, and product architecture and design. Michael has published on the evolution of open source communities, licensing of open services, and the innovation in the mashup ecosystem. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Global from the Start: The Characteristics of Born-Global Firms in the Technology Sector JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Stoyan Tanev KW - born global KW - international business KW - technology entrepreneurship AB - This article provides insights from recent research on firms that are "born global". A born-global firm is a venture launched to exploit a global niche from the first day of its operations. The insights in this article are relevant to technology entrepreneurs and top management teams of new technology firms. After discussing various definitions for the term "born global" and identifying the main characteristics of born-global firms, this article lists a few salient characteristics of firms that are born global in the technology sector. The article concludes by identifying opportunities for future research. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/532 IS - 3 U1 - University of Southern Denmark Stoyan Tanev is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Technology and Innovation and member of the Integrative Innovation Management (I2M) Research Unit at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he was previously a faculty member in the Technology Innovation Management Program. He has an MSc and PhD in Physics (jointly by the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France), an MEng in Technology Management (Carleton University, Canada), and a MA (University of Sherbrooke, Canada). His main research interests are in the fields of technology innovation management and value co-creation in technology-driven businesses. Dr. Tanev is also on the Review Board of the Technology Innovation Management Review. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Global Mindset: An Entrepreneur's Perspective on the Born-Global Approach JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Robert Poole KW - born global KW - economic development KW - entrepreneurship KW - globalization KW - internationalization KW - startup AB - The born-global approach calls for a startup to address the needs of a global market from inception. This approach provides an attractive alternative to the conventional staged approach to internationalization whereby a startup first operates in its home market and then enters one or more foreign markets sequentially. This article highlights the mindset change that an entrepreneur must make to move from the conventional staged approach to the born-global approach. The author of this article is an experienced entrepreneur and the article describes his own mindset change that occurred when enacting the born-global approach. The author uses his own experience and company as a case study to develop recommendations for other entrepreneurs who are evaluating the born-global approach to launch and grow a technology company. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/617 IS - 10 U1 - Freebird Connect Robert Poole is an entrepreneur, a chartered accountant, and a recent graduate of the MEng program in Technology Innovation Management at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Robert has 15 years of experience building and deploying business intelligence and social analytic solutions to global enterprises. As a consultant, Robert has provided his expertise to private and public-sector clients including federal, provincial, and regional governments. As an entrepreneur, Robert has created several technology-related companies and has appeared on CNBC's Power Lunch. Robert combines knowledge learned at the university with his practical experience to improve the fortunes of his company: FreebirdConnect. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Governance of Open Source Software Foundations: Who Holds the Power? JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ludovico Prattico KW - artificial neural network KW - content analysis KW - keystones KW - management structures KW - open source KW - open source software foundations KW - organization KW - power AB - The research reported in this article attempts to discover who holds the power in open source software foundations through the analysis of governance documents. Artificial neural network analysis is used to analyse the content of the bylaws of six open source foundations (Apache, Eclipse, GNOME, Plone, Python, and SPI) for the purpose of identifying power structures. Results of the research suggest that: i) the actions of an open source software foundation are centered around one of three groups: Members, Chairman/President/Executive Director, and Board of Directors; ii) in only one of the six foundations is the Board of Directors responsible for both the community and the product; and iii) artificial neural network analysis of the content of bylaws provides unbiased insights of the power structure of open source software foundations. These results may prove useful to those who contribute to open source foundations and use their products and services. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/636 IS - 12 U1 - Carleton University Ludovico Prattico is a recent graduate of the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University in Ottawa. In addition to his Master's degree research at Carleton, he oversaw the operations, external content, and overall support of the Carleton Entrepreneurs program and recruitment of candidates for the Lead To Win program. Previously, he worked at Nortel Networks and Bell-Northern Research, where he led the Optical Networks architecture and standards development team, and the high capacity OC-48 hardware team with the responsibility for the development and introduction of the dense wavelength division multiplexing product. Mr. Prattico also holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) degree from McGill University. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Green, Innovative, and Profitable: A Case Study of Managerial Capabilities at Interface Inc. JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Tommi Lampikoski KW - carpet industry KW - corporate sustainability KW - green innovation KW - interface KW - radical innovation AB - This article describes the pioneering green-innovation management practices of a resource-intensive corporation, Interface Inc., which is a globally operating carpet manufacturer. Even during the current economic downturn, many companies remain committed to advancing their green business agendas. However, recent research suggests that most of these companies are far from reaching substantial competitive advantage from this commitment because they lack the connection between their green agendas and core innovation-management activities. This study illustrates how Interface succeeded with radical green innovations by investing in managerial capabilities that allowed it to conduct research, recognize opportunities, and revolutionize the carpeting industry. These capabilities enabled Interface to continuously challenge and disrupt well-established management recipes, existing knowledge, and proven industrial practices, and they enabled it to create a sustainable competitive advantage through a winning portfolio of radical green innovations. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/624 IS - 11 U1 - University of California Berkeley Tommi Lampikoski, MSc (Econ), is a visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, USA, and a project researcher at the School of Business, Aalto University, Finland. He acts as a project manager in a joint research project with the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation and FIMECC’s Innovation & Network consortium. His ongoing doctoral research focuses on the management of radical green innovation and his current research interests include open innovation, corporate sustainability, and green business strategies in resource-intensive businesses. He is an author of three business books in the fields of creativity, green business, and innovation management. He previously held various managerial positions in the ICT industry in Finland. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Guide for Entrepreneurs Who Lead and Manage Change JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Llynne Plante KW - change management KW - entrepreneurship KW - leadership AB - To grow a business, entrepreneurs must know how to lead and manage change. However, the change management literature offers little in the way of specific, practical advice that leaders can use to guide their actions. This article builds on a review of the change management literature, a small field study, and years of experience supporting technology companies. It identifies and describes the top nine leadership actions (and their associated behavioural traits) that technology entrepreneurs who lead and manage change should carry out. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/536 IS - 3 U1 - NRC-IRAP Llynne Plante is Regional Director for Eastern and Northeastern Ontario with the Industrial Research Assistance Program of the National Research Council Canada (NRC-IRAP). Llynne has a strong experience in finance, international business, R&D, and technology entrepreneurship from both the private and public sectors. Prior to joining NRC-IRAP, Llynne worked at Public Works Government Services Canada (PWGSC), at Export Development Canada, and in business and engineering roles in small Canadian technology firms. Llynne holds an EMBA from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Go-to-Market Targeting: Know the Market and Whether It Cares JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Corien Kershey AB - This article explores the importance of good segmenting and targeting to early-stage companies. Most software companies fail within the first three years, and one of the prime reasons is a lack of a focused approach to a single, carefully-chosen target market. Most software companies take the approach of attacking multiple segments simultaneously to see which will work out best, but run out of time and money before they reach an answer. A concentrated strategy that focuses resources on a single segment that the company can win and dominate quickly significantly reduces go-to-market risk. Choosing a segment in the right direction is more important than choosing the right segment. This article provides a series of six steps to help companies work through a segmenting and targeting exercise that will give them the best chance of success. The article provides real-world tools to help deal with an essential issue. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/362 IS - July 2010 U1 - Marketing Magnitude Corien Kershey is a partner in Marketing Magnitude, specializing in strategic market and communications planning and execution. Corien has more than 20 years of marketing and executive management experience, and before Magnitude most recently with HBS, one of Canada's foremost agencies in technology marketing. Corien has developed successful brand and communication programs for technology accounts such as Mitel, Borderware, Compugen, Omnivex, and Pyrophotonics. Before joining HBS, Corien held CEO and Vice-President roles with satellite carrier TMI, Simware, NetManage, Buystream, FuseTalk, Serviceswitch, and Trigence. Corien served as Director of the Marketing Certification Program at the Sprott School of Business and continues to actively teach in Lead to Win. She holds three degrees from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Growing Revenue with Open Source JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Mekki MacAulay AB - To survive, a company must grow revenue from the core of their business. This article describes how open source can be used to help support revenue growth. We suggest seven strategies and provide examples of successful implementations for each. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/356 IS - June 2010 U1 - OSStrategy.org Mekki MacAulay is the Principal of OSStrategy.org, a consulting firm that helps companies improve their competitive advantage and strategic positioning in a world embracing open source. Mekki is also the president and founder of MekTek Solutions, an IT services company based in Ottawa, ON. Mekki holds undergraduate degrees from Carleton University in Computer Systems Engineering, and Psychology, and a Master's degree in Technology Innovation Management. His research interests focus on open source adoption; open source ecosystem value creation, extraction, and keystone company positioning; and quantifying the value of passive participation in open source projects. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Geospatial: An Open Source Microcosm JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Paul Ramsey AB - Open source has seen great success in general information processing, but does it have a future in vertical markets? In this article, we examine how geospatial open source provides an example of the market challenges of a mid-sized vertical market. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/234 IS - February 2009 U1 - OpenGeo Paul Ramsey is a Senior Consultant with OpenGeo, a social enterprise dedicated to providing support and service on a complete stack of open source geospatial products, from database to middleware to web interface. Mr. Ramsey is a Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and the 2008 recipient of the Sol Katz Award for accomplishments in open source geospatial software. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Geospatial Primer: in Search of the Next "Killer App" JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Andrew Ross AB - Soon after Codd wrote his paper on relational algebra in 1970, relational databases significantly changed the way people manage data. Today, relational databases are the workhorses of enterprise data storage. Similarly, imagine a world without email or the Internet. What will the next "killer app" or "killer service" look like? What kinds of attributes and features will it provide? In this article, we provide a primer on geospatial technology. We then explain possible reasons for growth in the geospatial industry, examine Ingres' geospatial project, and relate the material to learnings about open source as a protocol for business. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/237 IS - February 2009 U1 - Ingres Andrew Ross is a Director within the Engineering team at Ingres. He leads a team of software engineers to work on Ingres community projects including Geospatial and CAFE. Prior to joining Ingres, Andrew was an Architect and software developer at Nortel. Andrew has been developing and using open source for over a decade and teaching University classes using open source since 2004. He is a charter member of The Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Andrew is Founder and President of the Free and Open Source Software Learning Centre, a non-profit dedicated to improving people's lives through skills development and outreach using open source. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The GNOME Foundation Is All About People JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Stormy Peters AB - As open source projects mature, they tend to join or create foundations which manage the project's financial and software assets, provide a marketing and legal entity, and sometimes help to set the direction of the project. As non-profit organizations, foundations have a specific structure defined by the jurisdiction in which they were formed. This structure typically includes a volunteer board of directors and sometimes paid staff such as a secretary or executive director. As Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, I am often asked "what do you do?". This article will introduce the structure of the GNOME project and its Foundation, describe how the Foundation works to support the GNOME project, and discuss the roles of the people within the GNOME Foundation. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/261 IS - June 2009 U1 - GNOME Foundation Stormy Peters is Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit which works to further the goals of the GNOME Project. She has established relationships with the open source community and industry sponsors. Stormy has been involved with the GNOME Foundation, having been one of the founding members of the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board in 2000. Her previous positions include that of Open Source Program Manager at Hewlett-Packard and Director of Community and partner programs at OpenLogic. Stormy graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Government Transparency via Open Data and Open Source JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jennifer Bell AB - Industry analyst Gartner describes web services based on open government data as having a "greater potential effect on the ability to transform government than anything else in the Web 2.0 world". In his technology platform, Barack Obama has made groundbreaking promises related to increasing government accountability by: i) publishing data in open formats; and ii) using online tools to involve citizens in government decision making. These transformative ideas have not yet spread to politics in Canada. As citizens, we trust that money is being wisely spent on the systems that run our country. We trust that the people governing us have the skills, time, and information they need to make the best decisions. We trust that bureaucracies are well-designed and that the people in them are motivated to make those bureaucracies better. Unfortunately, it's hard to trust what you can't see. By publishing information in open, machine-readable formats, governments can take a powerful step towards building public trust. By sharing information, governments can start to channel the expertise of the citizenry outside of the civil service to build more effective and inclusive ways of running the country. The non-profit VisibleGovernment.ca is working to make online tools for civic participation based on open government data a reality in Canada. This article describes why open government data is not only a requirement for greater government transparency, but also a valuable investment in our country's infrastructure. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/230 IS - February 2009 U1 - Visible Government Jennifer Bell has a background in launching software start-ups. Prior to founding VisibleGovernment.ca, Jennifer was on the seed management team of Tungle Corporation, recently named one of Canada's top 10 Web 2.0 startups to watch. Previously, she was a software developer, and later architect and product manager, for Nimcat Networks, which was sold for $43M in 2005. Jennifer has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, and an MBA in Entrepreneurship from McGill University. ER -