TY - JOUR T1 - Profiling Regional Innovation Ecosystems as Functional Collaborative Systems: The Case of Cambridge JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jukka Viitanen KW - Cambridge KW - innovation ecosystem KW - management KW - orchestration KW - PPP KW - public–private partnership KW - system thinking AB - It has been widely recognized that the national and regional development of innovation ecosystems has been a relatively successful model for regional revitalization, bringing together key actors to perform the relevant technology-driven development processes. The ecosystems have been organized and combine readily public sector interests with private sector business-oriented actions. However, all regions are not uniformly successful, which leaves open the question of how to guide the sub-optimum regional systems closer to the front-runner position. Why do some score better than the others? This article presents both theoretical and practical evidence of global best practice in developing regional innovation hubs and renders a fully integrated innovation hub framework that defines a novel, holistic approach to managing these ecosystems. The framework is tested and validated through a selected case study of Cambridge, United Kingdom, identifying the key ecosystem elements that are necessary for building up a solid foundation for the innovative regions. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1038 IS - 12 U1 - Resolute HQ Inc. Jukka Viitanen is CEO and Managing Partner of Resolute HQ Inc. and former CEO and Partner of Hubconcepts Inc. He has PhD in Information Systems Management and an MSc in Marketing. His academic research has focused on the strategic alignment of business and ICT strategies and the management of global network organizations. Dr. Viitanen has extensive international experience in planning and managing innovation platforms for global excellence. He has served several organizations in Asia and Oceania and managed the Finnish Science Institute in Japan, the Finnish Innovation Center – Finnode Japan, and Asia-Pacific Insight consultancy during his 15 years abroad. Moreover, Dr. Viitanen has developed several governmental programs to facilitate cross-border technology transfer, SME market entry, and S&T funding collaboration between Finland and its global partners. In his work, he has been responsible for drafting strategies, proposals, and programs for international science and technology collaboration and innovation platform development. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Technological Public–Private Innovation Networks: A Conceptual Framework Describing Their Structure and Mechanism of Interaction JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Rabeh Morrar KW - conceptual framework KW - innovation networks KW - network lifecycle KW - networks KW - public–private partnership KW - social network analysis KW - technological public–private innovation networks KW - TechPPINs AB - Technological public–private innovation networks, or TechPPINs, enable cooperation between public and private actors in a complex, dynamic, social, and interactive network structure. In this article, the literature on innovation networks is used to construct a conceptual framework that describes the structure and mechanism of interaction in technological public–private innovation networks. In the framework, innovation is created through a dynamic process of interaction between the public and private actors along the network lifecycle. In each stage of network lifecycle, social capital enables various interactions to occur and different modes and quantities of knowledge and technological resources to be exchanged and reinforced. Through a combination of the product lifecycle model and social network analysis, the structure of technological public-private innovation networks are examined at each stage of the lifecycle to reveal information about how the roles of public and private actors are embodied. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/920 IS - 8 U1 - An-Najah National University Rabeh Morrar is an Assistant Professor of Innovation Economics at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. Rabeh's doctoral dissertation from Lille1 University in France focused on public–private innovation networks in the service sector, and his current research is focused on innovation in the service sector, R&D management, and technology management. Rabeh is also CEO of BEST, a small business in Palestine that provides innovation solutions and training. ER -