TY - JOUR T1 - Strategy-as-Process in a Technology Venture: A Case Study of Pivots, Pauses, Partners, and Progress JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2019 A1 - Andrew G. Earle A1 - Michael J. Merenda A1 - J. Matthew Davis KW - innovation systems KW - managing critical junctures and transitions KW - process research KW - technology commercialization KW - technology entrepreneurship AB - Technology commercialization is an often nonlinear process that tends to pass through various “stages” or “phases” as a venture attempts to shepherd a technology from the laboratory to marketplace. Between these phases are “junctures” or “transitions” that present particular challenges for entrepreneurs as they often comprise fundamental changes to the venture instead of simply scaled versions of previous challenges. In this study, we use a participant-observer methodology to deeply explore how a technology venture in the renewable energy sector negotiated these transitions. Our findings highlight the development of a “repertoire” of tools entrepreneurs can use to help successfully negotiate these transitions. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 9 UR - https://timreview.ca/article/1208 IS - 1 U1 - University of New Hampshire Andrew Earle is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship in the Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire in the United States. His research interests grow out of a long-held fascination with the transformational power of new technologies. The core of his research program is developing new ways of understanding how technologies move from initial invention to marketable products and how this process affects and informs the strategies of participating organizations. U2 - University of New Hampshire Michael J. Merenda is a Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship in the Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire in the United States. His focus is on problem-solving, critical inquiry, and strategic thinking as it applies to strategic management and entrepreneurial education. U3 - University of New Hampshire J. Matthew Davis is an Associate Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of New Hampshire in the United States. His research focuses on hydrology and water resources. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - From Organizations to Organizational Fields: The Evolution of Civic Innovation Ecosystems JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2018 A1 - Matthew Claudel KW - city KW - civic technology KW - innovation policy KW - innovation systems KW - Living lab AB - Contemporary approaches to urban technology emphasize local “innovation ecosystems”. Two organizational models – living labs and innovation integrators – are commonly used as hubs to broker these ecosystems. Curiously, both coexist in some cities, allowing a comparison of their impact and an analysis of their development over time and in context. The case studies presented in this article suggest that our analytical frameworks for technology policy may fall short, in that they contemplate only the organizations themselves – the living labs or innovation integrators. The dynamics observed in each city are well articulated, however, in the sociotechnical systems literature. The hub can be understood as a “niche”, which fosters radical innovations and new processes. As these prototypes are increasingly deployed and accepted, there is a regime shift, ultimately creating an experimentalist culture that fills the role previously held by the hub. This conclusion is neither a challenge to ecosystem theory nor a critique of innovation policy and its implementation. Rather, I suggest that we must extend these theoretical frameworks, drawing on sociotechnical systems literature to better account for institutions and for systems change as we design policy for urban technology. This article therefore makes a contribution by using a sociotechnical systems lens to explain the evolution of local urban innovation ecosystems. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 8 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1163 IS - 6 U1 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Matthew Claudel is a PhD candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and he is also affiliated with the MIT Lab for Innovation Science & Policy and the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Matthew is a Co-Founder of MIT designX, where he is the Head of Civic Innovation. He is also the co-author of two books: Open Source Architecture and The City of Tomorrow. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Organization of Living Labs: Coordinating Activities for Regional Innovation JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Bernhard R. Katzy A1 - Claudia Bücker KW - activities KW - co-creation KW - ideation KW - innovation systems KW - living labs KW - processes KW - venturing AB - This article contributes to the ongoing knowledge from the first decade of operating living labs with a study on the coordination of novel innovation activities in living labs. The article provides an organizational model for living labs to order the activities that eventually will allow the conceptualization of living labs as innovation systems, thus giving user involvement a more central role in innovation process theories. This article shows how innovation networks systematically align their activities to reliably achieve their objectives. Next to this interpretivist theoretical contribution, the article contributes relevant practical insights to technology innovation management practitioners based on in-depth living lab cases that exhibit interesting, relevant, and new activities. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/927 IS - 9 U1 - Center for Technology and Innovation Management (CeTIM) Bernhard Katzy is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at University BW Munich in Germany and Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is also a Co-Founder of the Center for Technology and Innovation Management (CeTIM). He started his professional career with an apprenticeship as a car mechanic and later earned Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Management. Bernhard holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from RWTH Aachen University of Technology, Germany, and a second PhD (Habilitation) in Technology Management from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research interests are the entrepreneurial management of fast-growing high-tech firms and the management of strategic change in the transition to the information age. U2 - Center for Technology and Innovation Management (CeTIM) Claudia Bücker is Co-Founder and Director of the Center for Technology and Innovation Management (CeTIM). In this capacity, she has been involved in numerous entrepreneurial innovation activities combining theory and practice. Claudia is an experienced project manager of publicly funded projects and also has been involved in the coaching of privately funded startups. She is a lecturer in the "ICT in Business" program of Leiden University in the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry from RWTH Aachen University of Technology in Germany. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Q&A. What Are Living Labs? JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Seppo Leminen KW - benefits KW - definition KW - innovation systems KW - living labs KW - Open innovation KW - types PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/928 IS - 9 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 licentiate degree in Information Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology (now the School of Electrical Engineering at Aalto University). His doctoral research focused on perceived differences and gaps in buyer-seller relationships in the telecommunication industry. His research and consulting interests include living labs, open innovation, value co-creation and capture with users, neuromarketing, relationships, services, and business models in marketing 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, and the Technology Innovation Management Review, among many others. ER -