TY - JOUR
T1 - Editorial: Platforms, Communities, and Business Ecosystems (February 2013)
JF - Technology Innovation Management Review
Y1 - 2013
A1 - Chris McPhee
A1 - Steven Muegge
KW - business ecosystems
KW - communities
KW - platforms
KW - technology entrepreneurship
PB - Talent First Network
CY - Ottawa
VL - 3
UR - http://timreview.ca/article/654
IS - 2
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 and BScH and MSc degrees in Biology from Queen's University in Kingston. 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 - Carleton University
Steven Muegge is an Assistant Professor at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he teaches within the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program. His research interests include open and distributed innovation, technology entrepreneurship, product development, and commercialization of technological innovation.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Keystone Business Models for Network Security Processors
JF - Technology Innovation Management Review
Y1 - 2013
A1 - Arthur Low
A1 - Steven Muegge
KW - business ecosystems
KW - business model innovation
KW - commercialization
KW - cybersecurity
KW - platforms
KW - semiconductors
KW - technology entrepreneurship
AB - Network security processors are critical components of high-performance systems built for cybersecurity. Development of a network security processor requires multi-domain experience in semiconductors and complex software security applications, and multiple iterations of both software and hardware implementations. Limited by the business models in use today, such an arduous task can be undertaken only by large incumbent companies and government organizations. Neither the “fabless semiconductor” models nor the silicon intellectual-property licensing (“IP-licensing”) models allow small technology companies to successfully compete. This article describes an alternative approach that produces an ongoing stream of novel network security processors for niche markets through continuous innovation by both large and small companies. This approach, referred to here as the "business ecosystem model for network security processors", includes a flexible and reconfigurable technology platform, a “keystone” business model for the company that maintains the platform architecture, and an extended ecosystem of companies that both contribute and share in the value created by innovation. New opportunities for business model innovation by participating companies are made possible by the ecosystem model. This ecosystem model builds on: i) the lessons learned from the experience of the first author as a senior integrated circuit architect for providers of public-key cryptography solutions and as the owner of a semiconductor startup, and ii) the latest scholarly research on technology entrepreneurship, business models, platforms, and business ecosystems. This article will be of interest to all technology entrepreneurs, but it will be of particular interest to owners of small companies that provide security solutions and to specialized security professionals seeking to launch their own companies.
PB - Talent First Network
CY - Ottawa
VL - 3
UR - http://timreview.ca/article/703
IS - 7
U1 - Crack Semiconductor
Arthur Low is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Crack Semiconductor, a supplier of high-performance cryptographic silicon IP used in some of the most demanding security applications. Arthur has a number of patents in the field of hardware cryptography. He has worked for a number of IC startups as a Senior IC designer and Architect and gained much of his fundamental IC design experience with Bell-Northern Research in the early 1990s and with IBM Microelectronics in the late 1990s. Arthur has a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and is completing his MSc degree in Technology Innovation Management in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
U2 - Carleton University
Steven Muegge is an Assistant Professor at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he teaches within the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program. His research interests include open and distributed innovation, technology entrepreneurship, product development, and commercialization of technological innovation.
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