TY - JOUR T1 - Reinventing the Wheel: Contextualizing Existing Innovations as a Path to Market Success JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jeff Moretz A1 - Karthik Sankaranarayanan A1 - Jennifer Percival KW - commercialization KW - contextualization of innovation KW - Innovation management KW - market-focused innovation KW - organization AB - In the quest to create cutting-edge products, organizations often invest substantial time, attention, and capital in primary research and development (R&D). By themselves, these R&D investments to create avant-garde products may not provide good return-on-investment. In the context of Canadian businesses, there is a significant scarcity of resources available for R&D. What can Canadian firms do to stay innovative when they face a plethora of difficulties, including insufficient funding? This article explores how organizations can leverage external innovation and existing technologies to create products or services that cater to the market needs. We present a three-pillar model along with examples of companies that attained market success in large part by contextualizing existing technologies in order to create innovative products or services. This approach provides companies with a high-level framework to facilitate resource-parsimonious creation of commercializable, innovative products that are competitive in today’s global marketplace. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/732 IS - 10 U1 - University of Ontario Institute of Technology Jeff Moretz is Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in Oshawa, Canada. He obtained his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and has an MBA and two undergraduate degrees from Michigan State University, USA. He is a recovering consultant, having worked for McKinsey & Company in Chicago after his MBA studies. Prior to joining the UOIT, he worked at University College Cork in Ireland, researching open source software communities and open innovation. His research interests focus on the impact of information, openness, and information technologies on innovation, business models, and strategies. U2 - University of Ontario Institute of Technology Karthik Sankaranarayanan is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada. He earned a PhD degree in Economics and a Master’s degree in Embedded Systems from the University of Lugano, Switzerland, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Madras in Chennai, India. Prior to joining UOIT, he was a visiting scholar at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge, USA, where he explored agent-based modelling of complex systems. His research encompasses simulation and modelling of complex systems, and the broader behavioural operations field. Recently, he has become involved in a collaborative study on the application of an open innovation framework in the services sector. U3 - University of Ontario Institute of Technology Jennifer Percival is Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Programs in the Faculty of Business and Information Technology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada. She holds a BMath in Operations Research and a PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research focus is on the strategic use of technology and innovation, including the effective use of technological innovations in order to determine the optimal allocation of IT investments for various organizational cultures to support e-services and e-health initiatives. She is also actively involved in research surrounding the use of process-modelling techniques to support change management, innovation, and technology integration in services. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Governance of Open Source Software Foundations: Who Holds the Power? JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ludovico Prattico KW - artificial neural network KW - content analysis KW - keystones KW - management structures KW - open source KW - open source software foundations KW - organization KW - power AB - The research reported in this article attempts to discover who holds the power in open source software foundations through the analysis of governance documents. Artificial neural network analysis is used to analyse the content of the bylaws of six open source foundations (Apache, Eclipse, GNOME, Plone, Python, and SPI) for the purpose of identifying power structures. Results of the research suggest that: i) the actions of an open source software foundation are centered around one of three groups: Members, Chairman/President/Executive Director, and Board of Directors; ii) in only one of the six foundations is the Board of Directors responsible for both the community and the product; and iii) artificial neural network analysis of the content of bylaws provides unbiased insights of the power structure of open source software foundations. These results may prove useful to those who contribute to open source foundations and use their products and services. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/636 IS - 12 U1 - Carleton University Ludovico Prattico is a recent graduate of the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University in Ottawa. In addition to his Master's degree research at Carleton, he oversaw the operations, external content, and overall support of the Carleton Entrepreneurs program and recruitment of candidates for the Lead To Win program. Previously, he worked at Nortel Networks and Bell-Northern Research, where he led the Optical Networks architecture and standards development team, and the high capacity OC-48 hardware team with the responsibility for the development and introduction of the dense wavelength division multiplexing product. Mr. Prattico also holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) degree from McGill University. ER -