TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Insights (May 2015) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chris McPhee KW - business ecosystems KW - cybersecurity KW - Innovation management KW - Internet of Things KW - non-practicing entities KW - open source policies KW - open source software KW - patent trolls KW - social innovation KW - transformative innovation PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/893 IS - 5 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. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Open Source Business (January 2014) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2014 A1 - Chris McPhee KW - business models KW - collaboration KW - ecosystems KW - licensing KW - open data KW - open source business KW - open source software KW - patterns PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 4 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/755 IS - 1 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. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - TIM Lecture Series – The Business of Open Source JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2014 A1 - Michael Weiss KW - architecture KW - business models KW - community KW - engagement KW - entrepreneurship KW - licensing KW - open source software KW - patterns PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 4 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/759 IS - 1 U1 - Carleton University Michael Weiss holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and is a member of the Technology Innovation Management program. His research interests include open source, ecosystems, mashups, patterns, and social network analysis. Michael has published on the evolution of open source business, mashups, platforms, and technology entrepreneurship. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Sustainability in Open Source Software Commons: Lessons Learned from an Empirical Study of SourceForge Projects JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Charles M. Schweik KW - commons KW - institutional analysis KW - internet-based collaboration KW - open source software KW - SourceForge AB - In this article, we summarize a five-year US National Science Foundation funded study designed to investigate the factors that lead some open source projects to ongoing collaborative success while many others become abandoned. Our primary interest was to conduct a study that was closely representative of the population of open source software projects in the world, rather than focus on the more-often studied, high-profile successful cases. After building a large database of projects (n=174,333) and implementing a major survey of open source developers (n=1403), we were able to conduct statistical analyses to investigate over forty theoretically-based testable hypotheses. Our data firmly support what we call the conventional theory of open source software, showing that projects start small, and, in successful cases, grow slightly larger in terms of team size. We describe the “virtuous circle” supporting conventional wisdom of open source collaboration that comes out of this analysis, and we discuss two other interesting findings related to developer motivations and how team members find each other. Each of these findings is related to the sustainability of these projects. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/645 IS - 1 U1 - University of Massachusetts Amherst Charles M. Schweik (Charlie) is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment shared between the Department of Environmental Conservation (http://eco.umass.edu) and the Center for Public Policy and Administration (www.masspolicy.org) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is Associate Director of the National Center for Digital Government (www.ncdg.org) and the founding member of a new “Workshop on the Study of Knowledge Commons” on campus. His research focuses on environmental management and policy, public-sector information technology, and the intersection of those domains. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Recent Research (December 2012) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Chris McPhee KW - consumer IT KW - electric vehicles KW - intellectual property KW - marketing strategy KW - neuromarketing KW - open source software KW - open source software foundations KW - research KW - Sprott School of Business KW - Technology Innovation Management program PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/632 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 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. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - An Enterprise Perspective on Customer Value Propositions for Open Source Software JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Aparna Shanker KW - business models KW - customer value creation KW - enterprise customers KW - marketing strategy KW - open source software KW - open source suppliers AB - Research on open source software (OSS) has examined value creation primarily from the perspective of the individuals and suppliers that create the software. The perspective of enterprise users who use and pay for OSS has been largely neglected so far. Understanding what paying customers want and how to create products and services they value is the cornerstone of any business model. Therefore, research on what enterprise users value in OSS is of paramount importance to OSS solution suppliers; it can be used to create a new customer base and sustain an existing one. This study examines the value of OSS as perceived by enterprise customers. Through an analysis of three literature streams (firm participation in open source software, business models, and customer value), a model on customer value creation was developed. Interviews were conducted with nine decision makers from enterprises that use OSS in operational projects. The key findings of this research are that: i) the maturity of the software determines the degree to which customers value their relationship with the supplier; ii) customers value differentiating functionality and costs savings; and iii) switching costs with OSS depend on the size, complexity, and dependencies of the software itself. This research identifies the points of value that the suppliers of OSS should focus on, and it points to the need for marketing strategies that can demonstrate this value to enterprise customers. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/635 IS - 12 U1 - Carleton University Aparna Shanker is a customer applications engineer with Alcatel-Lucent in Ottawa, where her job focus is on IP networks and the 4G LTE Evolved Packet Core. She is also currently a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University. Her research interests include open source businesses and customer value management. She holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from Queen's University, Kingston. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - How Open Source Has Changed the Software Industry: Perspectives from Open Source Entrepreneurs JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Juho Lindman A1 - Risto Rajala KW - entrepreneurship KW - narrative methodology KW - Open innovation KW - open source software KW - service-dominant logic AB - The emergence of F/LOSS (free/libre open source software) has triggered several changes in the software industry. F/LOSS has been cited as an archetypal form of open innovation; it consists of the convergence and collaboration of like-minded parties. An increasing number of software firms have taken upon this approach to link outsiders into their service development and product design. Also, software firms have been increasingly grounded their business models on user-centric and service-oriented operations. This article describes a study that investigates these changes from the perspective of F/LOSS entrepreneurs. The findings are summarized into four issues that are critical in managing an F/LOSS business: i) dealing with organizational changes in the innovation process; ii) mastering user involvement; iii) successfully using resources; and iv) designing revenue models. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/510 IS - 1 U1 - Hanken School of Economics Juho Lindman is an Assistant Professor in the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Juho defended his doctoral dissertation focusing on open source software development organization in the Aalto University School of Economics in Helsinki. In the field of information systems science, his current research is focused in the areas of open source software development, open innovation, open data and organizational change. U2 - Aalto University Risto Rajala is Director of Research in a multi-school collaboration platform in service research and education at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. His recent research has been centered on user-centric and open forms of managing software-intensive innovations, the transformation of software vendors’ business models, IT services and the socio-technical aspects of service systems. Risto holds a PhD in Information Systems Science from the Aalto University, School of Economics. His work has been published widely in refereed scientific journals, international conference proceedings, academic books, and other scientific volumes. He is also a member of the Review Board of the Technology Innovation Management Review. ER -