@article {1122, title = {Editorial: Collaboration (December 2017)}, journal = {Technology Innovation Management Review}, volume = {7}, year = {2017}, month = {12/2017}, pages = {3-5}, publisher = {Talent First Network}, address = {Ottawa}, keywords = {collaboration, collaborative capability, cooperation, coworking, education, entrepreneurial commitment, entrepreneurship, industry, interdisciplinarity, SMEs, startups, university}, issn = {1927-0321}, doi = {http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1122}, url = {http://timreview.ca/article/1122}, author = {Chris McPhee} } @article {1123, title = {Promoting Entrepreneurial Commitment: The Benefits of Interdisciplinarity}, journal = {Technology Innovation Management Review}, volume = {7}, year = {2017}, month = {12/2017}, pages = {6-13}, publisher = {Talent First Network}, address = {Ottawa}, abstract = {This article is the first to examine the relationship between interdisciplinarity and entrepreneurial commitment in academic spin-offs. Building on literature on interdisciplinarity, academic entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial intention, we analyzed the development of nine interdisciplinary spin-off teams comprising expertise from science, industry, and design. Our findings suggest that interdisciplinary teams engage with their ideas, maintain productive interaction, and successfully implement these ideas. Subjects in this study thoroughly developed their project proposals and implementation strategies by examining them from multiple angles. They believed not only in the value of these projects, but in their own ability to see them through. They found one another{\textquoteright}s contributions highly inspirational and experienced a strong sense of responsibility and motivation. Communication within the teams was well managed, and tasks were clearly defined and distributed. Based on our findings, we put forward a number of propositions about the positive effects of interdisciplinarity on entrepreneurial commitment and conclude with implications for future research and practice.}, keywords = {academic spin-offs, entrepreneurial commitment, interdisciplinarity, team composition, teamwork, technology transfer}, issn = {1927-0321}, doi = {http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1123}, url = {http://timreview.ca/article/1123}, author = {Franziska Brodack and Anna Sinell} } @article {872, title = {Agile New Service Development in an Interdisciplinary Context}, journal = {Technology Innovation Management Review}, volume = {5}, year = {2015}, month = {02/2015}, pages = {33-45}, publisher = {Talent First Network}, address = {Ottawa}, abstract = {This article it shows the role of services in a highly interdisciplinary context: promoting cooperation between organizations in the life sciences industry and in the engineering and automation industry. It provides insights on how required offerings of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are developed systematically based on a simple service engineering process model. In addition to the content-related view of new service development, findings from a meta-view are presented. Cooperating researchers and practitioners in the new-service development process observed their own collaboration and how the applied service engineering model had to be modified dynamically to the requirements of the use case. The results show that an easy-to-use service engineering model in a highly interdisciplinary context has benefits, but success is dependent on the joint efforts of an accordingly interdisciplinary team of engineers and natural scientists; a close communication with the customers both from the life sciences industry and the engineering and automation industry; and a more agile approach. }, keywords = {agile, engineering and automation, interdisciplinarity, KIBS, knowledge-intensive business services, life sciences, new service development, service engineering}, issn = {1927-0321}, doi = {http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/872}, url = {http://timreview.ca/article/872}, author = {Sabrina Cocca and Ann-Mareen Franke and Simone Schell} }