@article {545,
	title = {Business Model Discovery by Technology Entrepreneurs},
	journal = {Technology Innovation Management Review},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2012},
	month = {04/2012},
	pages = {5-16},
	abstract = {Value creation and value capture are central to technology entrepreneurship. The ways in which a particular firm creates and captures value are the foundation of that firm{\textquoteright}s business model, which is an explanation of how the business delivers value to a set of customers at attractive profits. Despite the deep conceptual link between business models and technology entrepreneurship, little is known about the processes by which technology entrepreneurs produce successful business models. This article makes three contributions to partially address this knowledge gap. First, it argues that business model discovery by technology entrepreneurs can be, and often should be, disciplined by both intention and structure. Second, it provides a tool for disciplined business model discovery that includes an actionable process and a worksheet for describing a business model in a form that is both concise and explicit. Third, it shares preliminary results and lessons learned from six technology entrepreneurs applying a disciplined process to strengthen or reinvent the business models of their own nascent technology businesses.},
	keywords = {business models, commercialization, innovation, technology entrepreneurship, value capture, value creation},
	issn = {1927-0321},
	doi = {http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/545},
	url = {http://timreview.ca/article/545},
	author = {Steven Muegge}
}
@article {495,
	title = {Business Ecosystems as Institutions of Participation: A Systems Perspective on Community-Developed Platforms},
	journal = {Technology Innovation Management Review},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2011},
	month = {11/2011},
	pages = {4-13},
	publisher = {Talent First Network},
	address = {Ottawa},
	abstract = {This article introduces a systems perspective on community-developed platforms and the institutions that structure participation by individuals and companies. It brings together the past research about technology platforms, company participation in business ecosystems, and individual participation in developer communities, and links these codependent subsystems through resource flows, interconnected institutional arrangements, and shared governance. To achieve this synthesis, it draws on conceptual arguments from a broad range of sources, including Elinor Ostrom{\textquoteright}s research program on the economics of sustainable commons governance, Tim O{\textquoteright}Reilly{\textquoteright}s practitioner essays about the architecture of participation, and prior management research on modularity and design, resource dependence, and systems thinking. The resulting {\textquotedblleft}systems of systems{\textquotedblright} perspective is parsimonious and insightful for entrepreneurs, managers, and community leaders. },
	keywords = {architecture of participation, business ecosystem, community-developed platform, institutional analysis and design (IAD), meritocratic developer community},
	issn = {1927-0321},
	doi = {http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/495},
	url = {http://timreview.ca/article/495},
	author = {Steven Muegge}
}
