TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Smart Cities and Regions (December 2016) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Chris McPhee A1 - Taina Tukiainen A1 - Seppo Leminen A1 - Mika Westerlund KW - collaborative innovation KW - ecosystems KW - living labs KW - online platforms KW - Open innovation KW - regional innovation KW - smart cities KW - smart regions PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1037 IS - 12 U1 - Technology Innovation Management Review Chris McPhee is Editor-in-Chief of the Technology Innovation Management Review. Chris holds an MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and BScH and MSc degrees in Biology from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. He has over 15 years of management, design, and content-development experience in Canada and Scotland, primarily in the science, health, and education sectors. As an advisor and editor, he helps entrepreneurs, executives, and researchers develop and express their ideas. U2 - Aalto University Taina Tukiainen is a Senior Researcher at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland, and she is a Cabinet Member of the President of the EU Committee of the Regions (CoR). She has worked for over 20 years within industry and universities and for over 10 years at Nokia Corporation as a senior manager, and she has worked on various projects with international university and industry collaboration. She was, until 2014, Director of Digibusiness Finland. Her research interest is strategic research including innovation, technology management, and entrepreneurship. Taina's doctoral dissertation was The Unexpected Benefits of Internal Corporate Ventures: An Empirical Examination of the Consequences of Investment in Corporate Ventures (2004), and the title of her latest book was The Finnish Startups in Globally Evolving Ecosystems: Value for Finland (2014). U3 - 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 doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering and Management in the School of Science at Aalto University. His research and consulting interests include living labs, open innovation, value co-creation and capture with users, relationships, services and business models in marketing, particularly in Internet of Things (IoT), 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 Business Industrial Marketing, the Journal of Technology and Engineering and Management, Management Decision, the International Journal of Technology Management, the International Journal of Technology Marketing, the International Journal of Product Development, and the Technology Innovation Management Review, among many others U4 - Carleton University Mika Westerlund, DSc (Econ), is an Associate Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He previously held positions as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley and in the School of Economics at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Mika earned his doctoral degree in Marketing from the Helsinki School of Economics in Finland. His current research interests include open and user innovation, the Internet of Things, business strategy, and management models in high-tech and service-intensive industries. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Smart Cities and Regions (October 2015) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chris McPhee A1 - Taina Tukiainen A1 - Seppo Leminen A1 - Mika Westerlund KW - collaboration KW - ecosystems KW - innovation ecosystem KW - living laboratories KW - living labs KW - Open innovation KW - regional innovation KW - smart cities KW - smart regions KW - smart specialisation KW - smart specialization KW - sustainability KW - urban capabilities PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/931 IS - 10 U1 - Technology Innovation Management Review Chris McPhee is Editor-in-Chief of the Technology Innovation Management Review. Chris holds an MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and BScH and MSc degrees in Biology from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. He has over 15 years of management, design, and content-development experience in Canada and Scotland, primarily in the science, health, and education sectors. As an advisor and editor, he helps entrepreneurs, executives, and researchers develop and express their ideas. U2 - Aalto University Taina Tukiainen is a Senior Researcher at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland, and she is a Cabinet Member of the President of the European Union Committee of the Regions (CoR). She has worked for over 20 years within industry and universities and for over 10 years at Nokia Corporation as a senior manager, and she has worked on various projects with international university and industry collaboration. She was, until 2014, Director of Digibusiness Finland. Her research interest is strategic research including innovation, technology management, and entrepreneurship. Taina's doctoral dissertation was The Unexpected Benefits of Internal Corporate Ventures: An Empirical Examination of the Consequences of Investment in Corporate Ventures (2004), and the topic of her latest book was The Finnish Startups in Globally Evolving Ecosystems: Value for Finland (2014). She has recently published papers in Organization Science and MIT Sloan Management Review. U3 - 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 research and consulting interests include living labs, open innovation, value co-creation and capture with users, relationships, services and business models in marketing, particularly in Internet of Things (IoT), 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, the International Journal of Technology Marketing, the International Journal of Product Development, and the Technology Innovation Management Review, among many others. U4 - Carleton University Mika Westerlund, DSc (Econ), is an Associate Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He previously held positions as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley and in the School of Economics at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Mika earned his doctoral degree in Marketing from the Helsinki School of Economics in Finland. His current research interests include open and user innovation, the Internet of Things, business strategy, and management models in high-tech and service-intensive industries. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Making Smart Regions Smarter: Smart Specialization and the Role of Universities in Regional Innovation Ecosystems JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Markku Markkula A1 - Hank Kune KW - innovation KW - innovation ecosystems KW - quadruple helix KW - role of universities KW - smart cities KW - smart regions KW - smart specialisation KW - smart specialization KW - societal innovation KW - triple helix AB - What makes a "smart region" smarter? We argue that it is the active orchestration of the regional ecosystem around concepts such as knowledge co-creation and exploitation, opportunity exploration, and capacity building. Simply adding to the proliferation of software developers in the area, stimulating the activities of business clusters around information technology, and providing digitally enabled services for citizens is not enough to make a region smarter. Smartness is enhanced by a well-orchestrated regional innovation ecosystem with a strong "smart specialization strategy" that leverages the new societal roles played by universities. In this article, we describe the European Commission’s program for research and innovation strategies for smart specialization (RIS3) and show how the Helsinki Region in Finland is using smart specialization, ecosystem orchestration, and the active role of universities to enhance regional innovation and the "smartness" of the region. These activities are discussed in the context of policy documents and strategy papers from regional, national, and European authorities, which illustrates some differences between papers and practice. This is work in progress, and based on early results, we draw initial conclusions about how putting policy into practice can make smart regions smarter. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/932 IS - 10 U1 - European Union Committee of the Regions Markku Markkula is the President of the European Union Committee of the Regions (CoR), where he has been a member since 2010 and Rapporteur on several opinions related to topics such as Europe 2020, digitalization, single markets, as well as research and innovation. His experience includes memberships of several High Level Expert Groups, and he is a member of the EU Smart Specialisation Mirror Group. Markku works within Aalto University as the Advisor to Aalto Presidents, focusing on European Union strategy affairs. His previous work experience includes Directorship of the Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli and the Secretary General of the International Association for Continuing Engineering Education IACEE. He is a former member of the Finnish Parliament (1995–2003). As an MP, his international role included the Presidency of EPTA Council (European Parliamentary Technology Assessment Network). In the Helsinki Region, he is the Board member of the Regional Council and the chair of the Steering Board, which makes decisions on the use of Structural Funds. He is a longstanding Espoo City Council member, as well as the chair of the City Planning Board. U2 - Educore BV Hank Kune is Director of Educore BV, Founding Partner and member of the governing board of the Future Center Alliance, and active member of the New Club of Paris, a global network organization working as agenda developer for knowledge societies, where his focus is on entrepreneurial initiatives and societal innovation coaching. Hank works with diverse corporate and government organizations in projects about societal innovation and renewal, with a special emphasis on hands-on problem solving in complex social, societal, and organizational situations. ER -