December 2017 Download this article as a PDF

Welcome to the December 2017 issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month’s editorial theme is Collaboration, and the authors provide insights on the benefits of diverse entrepreneurial teams, the importance of educational collaboration in university–industry relationships, how startups and SMEs can collaborate through open innovation, and how coworking spaces can promote collaborative capability.

In the first article, Franziska Brodack and Anna Sinell from the Fraunhofer Center for Responsible Research and Innovation in Berlin, Germany, discuss the benefits of team diversity on entrepreneurial commitment in academic-spinoffs. Building on literature on interdisciplinarity, academic entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial intention, they analyzed the development of nine interdisciplinary spin-off teams comprising expertise from science, industry, and design. Through their findings, they identify several benefits of interdisciplinarity and put forward a number of propositions about its positive effect on entrepreneurial commitment.

Next, Leena Kunttu from the University of Vaasa in Finland examines the role of educational involvement in innovative university–industry collaboration. Although the value of linking university research with industrial innovation is widely recognized, little attention has been given specifically to the value of involving industry in educational activities such as student projects, thesis projects, jointly organized courses, and tailored degree courses. Through a qualitative analysis of nine cases of university–industry research collaboration, the author demonstrates the mutual benefits of educational involvement.

Then, Fabio Mercandetti, Christine Larbig, Vincenzo Tuozzo, and Thomas Steiner from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts Information Technology in Switzerland highlight the potential for startups to collaborate with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through open innovation. More commonly, startups collaborate with large companies, but the authors’ findings suggest that building bridges between startups and SMEs can reduce the challenges both players face in identifying potential partners and can lead to effective collaboration and innovation solutions.

Finally, Marcelo Castilho and Carlos Quandt from Business School of Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil, explore the development of collaborative capability in coworking spaces. Based on their study of 14 coworking spaces in six Asian countries, they identify two types of coworking spaces – those tailored towards “convenience sharing” and those supporting “community building” – and argue that they each foster collaborative capability in different ways. They also contribute to a four-dimensional theoretical model for coworking spaces to help coworking founders and community managers make strategic decisions in relation to developing collaborative capability.

The articles in this issue were selected and developed from papers presented at the ISPIM Innovation Conference in Vienna, Austria, from June 18–21, 2017. ISPIM – the International Society for Professional Innovation Management – is a network of researchers, industrialists, consultants, and public bodies who share an interest in innovation management.

Next year’s ISPIM Innovation Conference will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, from June 17–20, 2018. Submissions from academic, research, consulting, industry, intermediary, and policy organizations are encouraged. The submission deadline is January 26, 2018.

Before turning the page on 2017, we return to the December tradition of looking back on the articles that have proven the most popular in the past year. Table 1 ranks the most popular articles published in the 12 issues between October 2016 and September 2017 based on traffic to timreview.ca over this period. This method strongly disadvantages more recently published articles, so the table also includes five trending articles that would appear in the main list if only recent traffic were considered. If you missed any of these articles when they first came out, we encourage you to add them to your reading list. Our full archive of articles is available on our website.

For future issues, we are accepting general submissions of articles on technology entrepreneurship, innovation management, and other topics relevant to launching and growing technology companies and solving practical problems in emerging domains. Please contact us with potential article topics and submissions.

Chris McPhee
Editor-in-Chief

 

Table 1. Most popular TIM Review articles published from October 2016 to September 2017*

Rank

Article

Author(s)

Issue

1

Integrating Open Innovation Platforms in Public Sector Decision Making: Empirical Results from Smart City Research

Ojasalo & Tähtinen

December 2016
Smart Cities and Regions

2

Action Research as a Framework to Evaluate the Operations of a Living Lab

Logghe & Schuurman

February 2017
Innovation in Living Labs

3

Innovation in the Public Sector: Exploring the Characteristics and Potential of Living Labs and Innovation Labs

Schuurman & Tõnurist

January 2017
Innovation in Living Labs

4

The Concept of the Entrepreneurial University Applied to Universities of Technology in Austria: Already Reality or a Vision of the Future?

Sperrer et al.

October 2016
Insights

5

Digital Technology Entrepreneurship: A Definition and Research Agenda

Giones & Brem

May 2017
Lean and Global

6

The Design-Driven Living Lab: A New Approach to Exploring Solutions to Complex Societal Challenges

Brankaert & den Ouden

January 2017
Innovation in Living Labs

7

Hybrid Entrepreneurship: How and Why Entrepreneurs Combine Employment with Self-Employment

Solesvik

March 2017
Insights

8

Managing Innovation Ecosystems to Create and Capture Value in ICT Industries

Pellikka & Ali-Vehmas

October 2016
Insights

9

Orchestrating Innovation Ecosystems: A Qualitative Analysis of Ecosystem Positioning Strategies

Valkokari et al.

March 2017
Insights

10

The Smart City Ecosystem as an Innovation Model: Lessons from Montreal

Khomsi et al.

November 2016
Innovation in Tourism

11

Q&A. How Can You Teach Innovation and Entrepreneurship?

Trifilova et al.

October 2016
Insights

12

Collaborative Innovation with External Actors: An Empirical Study on Open Innovation Platforms in Smart Cities

Ojasalo & Kauppinen

December 2016
Smart Cities and Regions

13

Empowering Local Tourism Providers to Innovate through a Living Lab Process: Does Scale Matter?

Guimont & Lapointe

November 2016
Innovation in Tourism

14

Categorization of Innovation Tools in Living Labs

Leminen & Westerlund

January 2017
Innovation in Living Labs

15

Initiating a New Research Phase in the Field of International Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Professor Nicole Coviello

Coviello & Tanev

May 2017
Lean and Global

The Sharing Economy and the Future of Personal Mobility: New Models Based on Car Sharing

Novikova

August 2017
Insights

Improving Internal Communication Management in SMEs: Two Case Studies in Service Design

Eskelinen et al.

June 2017
Insights

The Defining Characteristics of Urban Living Labs

Steen & van Bueren

July 2017
10th Anniversary Issue

Comparing the Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Technology Startups in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India

Subrahmanya

July 2017
10th Anniversary Issue

Is There a Lean Future for Global Startups?

Tanev

May 2017
Lean and Global

*The rankings are based on website traffic to timreview.ca from October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. The list also includes 5 recently published articles (denoted by ↑) that would appear in the main list if only traffic from June 1, 2017 to November 30, 2017 were considered. 

Share this article:

Cite this article:

Rate This Content: 
No votes have been cast yet. Have your say!

Keywords: collaboration, collaborative capability, cooperation, coworking, education, entrepreneurial commitment, entrepreneurship, industry, interdisciplinarity, SMEs, startups, university

Breadbasket