TY - JOUR T1 - Open Marketing: Conceptualizing external parties’ strategic marketing activities JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Christina Öberg KW - Conceptualization KW - Integrative marketing KW - Open marketing KW - roles KW - Strategic marketing. AB - Open marketing as conceptualized in this paper refers to how external parties take part in strategic, integrative marketing activities. To distinguish this more recent trend in marketing from traditional meanings of marketing, the paper provides a typology on roles and role keepers in marketing. Four types of roles and role keepers are outlined: marketing as 1) solely being performed by actors in the supplier company communicating offerings, 2) an activity shared among functions of the supplier company, 3) external parties communicating offerings, and 4) external parties contributing to strategic marketing. Using the concept of 'roles' in marketing helps to structure activities and actors - or roles and role keepers - and provides a basis for understanding that marketing results from what is done, not merely from who performs it. The paper underlines how new ways of conducting business also have implications for a company's marketing beyond its borders. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1377 IS - 8 U1 - Örebro University School of Business Christina Öberg is Professor/Chair in Marketing at Örebro University, Visiting Professor at Leeds University and associated with the Ratio Institute, Stockholm. She received her Ph.D. in industrial marketing from Linköping University. Her research interests include mergers and acquisitions, brands and identities, customer relationships, and innovation management. She has previously published in such journals as Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Marketing, International Marketing Review, and Industrial Marketing Management. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Organizing the Development of Digital Product-Service Platforms JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Johan Simonsson A1 - Mats Magnusson A1 - Anders Johanson KW - business model innovation KW - corporate entrepreneurship KW - digital platforms KW - servitization AB - Servitization is today a common theme among manufacturing companies, with the goal of better addressing the needs of their customers. Digitalization is one key enabler of servitization. One aspect of this concept can be provided through digital product-service platforms, which may facilitate the enrichment of a market offer, as well as keeping costs under control. Platforms are in general a well-established concept for manufacturing companies, as enablers of rich product offerings based on a few components. Less is known, however, about how the ambition to create digital product-service platforms interplays with the business model innovation needed as a result of the servitization efforts, along with processes and organization. This paper identifies a number of challenges that manufacturing companies may face when undertaking platform development for services, based on an empirical study made in the Swedish company Husqvarna Group. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1335 IS - 3 U1 - KTH Royal Institute of Technology Johan Simonsson is a Ph.D. Student at the Department of Machine Design, in the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He is also Director of Ideation and Research, AI-labs, within Husqvarna Group. He has previously held various management positions related to global product management, service development, and digital transformation in several global industrial firms. U2 - KTH Royal Institute of Technology Mats Magnusson is Professor of Product Innovation Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and Permanent Visiting Professor at LUISS School of Business and Management in Rome. He holds a PhD in Innovation Engineering and Management, and an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from Chalmers University of Technology, as well as a BA in Japanese from the University of Gothenburg. He has previously been Director of the Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology in Sweden, and Visiting Professor at LUISS Guido Carli University, the University of Bologna, and Aalborg University. He is the elected chairman of the Continuous Innovation Network and the vice chairman of the Swedish Association for Innovation Management Professionals. His research, teaching, and consultancy activities cover a wide range of topics in the fields of innovation management, product development, R&D management, and strategic management, and he has published articles on these topics in, for example, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, R&D Management, Organization Studies, and Long Range Planning. U3 - Husqvarna Group Anders Johanson is Senior Vice President, Innovation and Technology and CTO of Husqvarna Group, where he leads digital transformation, technology, and IP intelligence, as well as strategy in exploratory robotics, accelerated innovation, and venturing. He is a member of the advisory board of Combient, and is on the Board of Directors at Etac Group. He also holds a position as Adjunct Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH. Anders currently supervises two Industrial PhD students and lectures in Innovation, transformation and product development. He has a background as Partner and Global Practice leader in Technology and Innovation Management at Arthur D. Little. Prior to that, he held various leadership roles in global assembled goods companies. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Data and Open Source Enabling Smart City Development: A Case Study in Häme Region JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jari Jussila A1 - Joni Kukkamäki A1 - Mikko Mäntyneva A1 - Juuso Heinisuo KW - Smart city, AB - Open data offers possibilities to accelerate both innovations and co-creation activities in cities and regions. Likewise, open source software development is an efficient way to create new services. Open data can be used to promote better information sharing and offers various opportunities for third-party developers. Co-creation improves the commitment of different stakeholders and ensures that the created solutions are based on real needs. For these reasons, it is only logical that these two themes are linked together in smart city activities. This paper presents a practical open data and co-creation development made in the region of Häme, Finland. This paper contributes to smart cities research by describing the development of two smart city services: the Tavastia Events API and "Hämeenlinna in pocket" smartphone application. It describes strategies that facilitate beneficial participation and collaboration in smart city open data initiatives. Based on Linked Events, an open source solution developed for the city of Helsinki, modification and implementation were made to create a centralized and open service, to collect and publish event-related data via an application programming interface (API) in the Häme region. A smartphone application was then developed, making use of the developed Events API and other data sources, to provide citizens with the most common digital services, and a platform for digital participation in Häme. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 9 UR - https://timreview.ca/article/1266 IS - 9 U1 -
Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK)
Dr. Jari Jussila holds a PhD degree in Information and Knowledge Management from Tampere University of Technology (TUT, 2015). Currently he is working as Principal Research Scientist at HAMK Smart Research Unit. His research is currently focused on knowledge management, business intelligence, social media, big social data analytics, and health informatics. 
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Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK)
Mr. Joni Kukkamäki is a Research Manager in the HAMK Smart Research Unit. He runs the DISP (Digital Solutions & Platforms) team whose role is to provide technology-based research & development activities for the needs of HAMK Research and also for industry. Focus areas for the team are software development, Internet of Things, game engines, and data analytics. Kukkamäki holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (IT) degree and is currently working for his M.Sc (Computer Science) at Tampere University.
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Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK)

Dr. Mikko Mäntyneva holds a PhD degree in Strategic Management from Tampere University of Technology (TUT, 2004). Currently he is the Principal Research Scientist at Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK). His research is currently focused on smart services, innovation management, knowledge management, and customer relationship management. He has authored several scientific articles as well as six books on various management topics.

Dr. Juuso Heinisuo holds a PhD degree from the Faculty of Business and Built Environment of Tampere University of Technology (TUT, 2013). Currently he is the Strategy Manager for the City of Hämeenlinna. His work is currently focused on knowledge management, ecosystems, data analytics, strategy, and urban planning. His works have been recognized in such international communities as TED. 
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The financial support from the Regional Council of Häme is gratefully acknowledged.
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City of Hämeenlinna
Dr. Juuso Heinisuo holds a PhD degree from the Faculty of Business and Built Environment of Tampere University of Technology (TUT, 2013). Currently he is the Strategy Manager for the City of Hämeenlinna. His work is currently focused on knowledge management, ecosystems, data analytics, strategy, and urban planning. His works have been recognized in such international communities as TED. 
 
ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Strategy in a Smart City JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2019 A1 - Suvi Einola A1 - Marko Kohtamäki A1 - Harri Hietikko AB - To attract new companies and a talented workforce in a way that increases income streams, cities are searching for strategic capabilities by using a variety of strategic practices. The present study participates in the theoretical debate between micro- and macro-strategizing by focusing on the interplay between the city organization and its institutional environment. As such, the study elucidates the open strategy process used in the strategy work of a medium-sized city in Finland. To make the strategy work open and encourage citizens’ participation, the city decided to utilize crowdsourcing as a tool that was part of a broader strategy process to develop a city strategy in a participative manner. The present study analyzes the responses of almost 2000 citizens who addressed the role of an open strategy in developing a smart city. The study contributes by depicting how the open strategy was utilized in practice and what types of outcomes it produced. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 9 UR - https://timreview.ca/article/1267 IS - 9 U1 -
University of Vaasa
D.Sc. (Admin) Suvi Einola is Assistant Professor at the University of Vaasa. She acts as a program manager of the Master’s Programme in Strategic Business Development. Before joining academia, she worked in the public sector for fifteen years, holding managerial, training, and development responsibilities. In her research, Einola focuses on strategic practices and servitization challenges both in public and private organizations. Her articles have been published in journals and books focused on both the public sector and industrial marketing.
 
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University of Vaasa
D.Sc. (Econ) Marko Kohtamäki is Professor of Strategy and Director of the ‘Strategic Business Development’ (SBD) research group at the University of Vaasa. Professor Kohtamäki is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN). He takes special interest in industrial service business or servitization, strategic practices, and business intelligence in technology companies. He has published in several distinguished international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Industrial Marketing Management, among others.
 
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City of Vaasa

D.Sc. (Admin) Harri Hietikko is Development Manager at the City of Vaasa and a published author of several works. He has written crime fiction, nonfiction and plays that have been performed on several theater stages. In 2008, Hietikko received his doctorate from the University of Tampere on the subject “Power, Leadership, Destruction and Hope in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.” In 2010, a Finnish publisher launched Hietikko’s nonfiction work Management by Sauron – The Lord of the Rings Guide to Leadership, a guidebook on the practicalities of working life and leadership skills that draws on the characters and events of Tolkien’s famous novel. In 2018, this work was also published in Germany by Franz Vahlen.

ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Overcoming Barriers to Frugal Innovation: Emerging Opportunities for Finnish SMEs in Brazilian Markets JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2018 A1 - Mirva Hyypiä A1 - Rakhshanda Khan KW - barriers KW - Brazilian markets KW - Finnish SMEs KW - frugal innovation KW - opportunities AB - Frugal innovation has become a popular concept, in academia but also in industry at large. Although there has been a great deal of discussion about the relevance of frugal innovation to the developed world, the notion’s full acceptance within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) still seems far in the distance. The opportunities and barriers seen with practical implementation of frugal innovation during the development processes have received little attention. This article considers these opportunities and barriers in the context of Finnish SMEs, providing insight specifically into the approaches these companies take in Brazilian markets. Qualitative data were drawn from a case study forming part of an extensive action research-based development project called SCALA, aimed at creating suitable and scalable mobile learning services for global markets. The concepts of frugal innovation and proceeding from user needs – essential parts of the development processes – are examined by observing three Finnish SMEs and their top managers, with particular focus on their interaction with Brazilian partners. Development sessions and meetings shed light on how the companies perceived and responded to testing their products/services with six individual schools in Brazil. Although frugal innovation is seen as essential for guaranteeing long-term competitiveness of Finnish SMEs – and access to rapidly growing, unsaturated emerging markets such as Brazil can be a step in the right direction – our study highlights numerous barriers and ways to overcome them in the real-world implementation of frugality in SMEs’ development processes. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 8 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1151 IS - 4 U1 - Lappeenranta University of Technology Mirva Hyypiä, D.Sc. (Tech.), is a Senior Researcher of Industrial Management at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, where she has worked since 2006. Her current research focuses on various aspects of leadership, innovation management, frugal innovation, innovation systems, user-driven innovation, service design, multi-sensory environment, gamification, and co-creation of digitalization. She has published several articles in international and national scientific journals. U2 - Lappeenranta University of Technology Rakhshanda Khan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Her doctoral dissertation in Business and Management (2017) focused on the contribution of socially driven businesses and innovations to social sustainability. Her expertise lies in sustainable, socially driven businesses, inclusive business models, and sustainable innovations, with a special focus on frugal innovation. She has published in several refereed journals including Applied Energy, Sustainability, the International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, and the International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Opening the Black Box of Ambidexterity: Three Product Development Stories JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2017 A1 - John Fiset A1 - Isabelle Dostaler KW - adaptability KW - alignment KW - ambidextrous behaviour KW - contextual ambidexterity KW - exploitation KW - exploration KW - new product development AB - Organizational ambidexterity, which can be roughly defined as the ability for organizations to combine old and new ways of doing things to meet organizational objectives, has drawn considerable attention in the management literature in recent years. Authors distinguish clearly between structural ambidexterity, which implies that ambidextrous organizations are firms in which groups of people concentrate on traditional business or ways of doing things while others explore new avenues, and contextual ambidexterity, which characterizes companies where any individual can be ambidextrous. Our research is positioned in the contextual ambidexterity perspective. In this article, we apply the typology of four ambidextrous behaviours developed by Birkinshaw and Gibson (2004) to increase our understanding of the process whereby organizational actors are able to build on existing capabilities or business processes while developing new ones. Our results indicate that at least three of the ambidextrous behaviours proposed by Birkinshaw and Gibson (2004) (initiator, broker, and multitasker) are helpful to understand how new product development team members rely on proven approaches while simultaneously introducing new ones to successfully overcome daily challenges. Practitioners should be encouraged to become familiar with the concept of ambidexterity, to recognize when and how the successful combination of old and new ways of doing happens, and to promote these occurrences. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 7 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1060 IS - 3 U1 - Memorial University of Newfoundland John Fiset is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada. He received his doctoral degree from the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where he examined how leaders influence intragroup workplace dynamics. His current research interests include examining the process by which leaders are able to elicit high performance among followers as well as studying various forms of interpersonal mistreatment in the workplace. U2 - Concordia University Isabelle Dostaler is a Professor in the Department of Management of the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She holds a PhD in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge in England. She has conducted research into business strategy and performance, regional development and air transport, and supplier–buyer relationships in several industrial sectors. She is also interested in the field of management education and her recent research has focused on teaching methods and on the gap between business practice and business research. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Orchestrating Innovation Ecosystems: A Qualitative Analysis of Ecosystem Positioning Strategies JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2017 A1 - Katri Valkokari A1 - Marko Seppänen A1 - Maria Mäntylä A1 - Simo Jylhä-Ollila KW - actors KW - collaboration KW - ecosystems KW - innovation KW - orchestration KW - positioning KW - roles KW - strategy AB - This article explores how firms can orchestrate innovation ecosystems to enhance collaboration for innovation among different actors. Most previous research on ecosystems has focused on firm-level strategies to operate in an ecosystem rather than the composition or orchestration of an ecosystem as a whole. However, finding the balance between the self-interests of involved actors is critical in order to create collaborative settings that induce different parties to jointly develop and put their best efforts into a joint endeavour. Thus, we undertook a qualitative study with 35 case companies from the metal and engineering industries, each of whom was interested in developing their position in ecosystems and improving their relational business practices. The findings suggest that there is an essential ecosystem competence that is needed by all actors in an ecosystem, regardless of their position, and that is the ability to manage dynamic strategic interactions related to innovation. This competence enables them to ensure the future vitality of the ecosystem and their own business. These results highlight the need for managers to profile their own company’s role in an ecosystem in relation to the type of ecosystems, while simultaneously evaluating the ecosystem’s ability and potential to survive. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 7 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1061 IS - 3 U1 - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Katri Valkokari is a Research Manager at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in the Business, Innovation and Foresight research area. Over the past 15 years, she has carried out several development projects concerning different networked business arrangements (ecosystems, networks, partnerships, and firms). In 2009, Katri completed her doctoral thesis on business network development. She has published several international and national articles in the research areas of business network management, collaboration, organizational knowledge, and innovation management. U2 - Tampere University of Technology Marko Seppänen, PhD, is Vice Dean for Education at the Faculty of Business and Built Environment, and is a Full Professor in the field of industrial management at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. He is an expert in managing value creation in business ecosystems, business concept development, and innovation management. In his latest research, he has examined platform-based competition in business ecosystems and innovation management in business networks. His research has appeared in high-quality peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, the Journal of Systems and Software, and the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management. U3 - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Maria Mäntylä (MSc Admin) is a Research Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in the Innovations, Economy & Policy team. She obtained her master’s degree in Local and Regional Governance from the University of Tampere, Finland, in 2015. She also studied Social Sciences of Sport in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Maria has been involved in various national and international research projects regarding innovation research, especially in the area of regional innovation systems. She is currently writing her doctoral thesis on sports technologies and innovation ecosystems at the University of Tampere. U4 - Elisa Corporation Simo Jylhä-Ollila (MSc Tech) is an Analyst in Elisa Corporation’s Industrial IoT department. He holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Previously, he worked as a research assistant in Tampere University of Technology and worked in Elisa’s research team before moving into his current position in the company. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Orchestration Roles to Facilitate Networked Innovation in a Healthcare Ecosystem JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2017 A1 - Minna Pikkarainen A1 - Mari Ervasti A1 - Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen A1 - Satu Nätti KW - case study KW - exploratory approach KW - healthcare ecosystem KW - high-level experts KW - innovation orchestration KW - roles AB - This study examines orchestration roles in a networked innovation context characterized by significant transformation. In particular, an exploratory case study approach is taken to study the roles of innovation network orchestrators and their actions to facilitate networked activities in different phases of the innovation process. The context of the case study, a healthcare ecosystem that aims to co-create technological innovations to support the pediatric surgery journey, provides valuable insights about orchestration and adds knowledge on specific limitations set by the orchestrator-specific and context-related issues in a professional context. The findings of this study highlight the need for careful coordination that allows shared understanding of the goals of the orchestration process and achievable innovation implementations. It is shown that parallel, evolving, and even changing orchestrator roles are needed in complex networked innovation settings. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 7 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1104 IS - 9 U1 - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Minna Pikkarainen is a joint Connected Health Professor at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Oulu / Oulu Business School, the Martti Ahtisaari Institute, and the Faculty of Medicine. She works as a program leader and a collaborator between different units and departments in University of Oulu, VTT and other OuluHealth ecosystem players. She currently focuses her research in the data-driven service co-creation and business models in health and wellbeing sectors. During 2010–2012, Minna worked as a Business Developer in the Institute Mines Telecom, Paris, and European Innovation Technology (EIT) network in Helsinki. Her key focus areas as a business developer have been in healthcare organizations and digital cities. Her research has been focused on the areas of software development, agile development, and service innovation. U2 - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Mari Ervasti is a Senior Scientist in the Wellness and Living team at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. She received her MSc in Information Networks from the University of Oulu in 2007, and her DSc (Tech) degree in Human-Centered Technology from the Tampere University of Technology in 2012.She has worked as a project manager and researcher in several multi-disciplinary research projects dealing with human-technology interaction, and has over 30 scientific publications in the field. Mari’s research focuses on user experience design and evaluation in versatile application domains with a special focus on participatory design by utilizing user-driven methods. Furthermore, her research addresses the need for predicting and estimating the impacts and value of novel technologies for different stakeholders. Recently, she has focused on the co-creation of connected health services together with patients, healthcare professionals, and companies in the context of future digital hospitals. U3 - Oulu Business School Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen is a Professor of Marketing, especially relating to international business, in the Oulu Business School at the University of Oulu, Finland, and she is an Adjunct Professor (Knowledge Management) at the Lappeenranta University of Technology’s School of Business and Management. She has published over 60 refereed articles in journals such as the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industrial Marketing Management, R&D Management, and Technovation. She has contributed to book chapters, over 100 conference papers, and several other scientific and managerial publications. Most of her research has involved innovation management and appropriability issues, including examination of different knowledge protection and value capturing mechanisms. The research covers varying contexts such as internationalization and inter-organizational collaboration. U4 - Oulu Business School Satu Nätti is a Professor at the Oulu Business School in Finland. Her main research interests relate to innovation network orchestration, professional services, and key account management. She has published in such journals as Industrial Marketing Management, the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, the Journal of Service Management, the Journal of Services Marketing, and the Service Industries Journal. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Overcoming Barriers to Experimentation in Business-to-Business Living Labs JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ruben D’Hauwers A1 - Aron-Levi Herregodts A1 - Annabel Georges A1 - Lynn Coorevits A1 - Dimitri Schuurman A1 - Olivier Rits A1 - Pieter Ballon KW - B2B KW - experimentation KW - living labs KW - testing KW - user research AB - Business-to-business (B2B) living lab projects have been mentioned in different areas of academic research, but the innovation management literature requires deeper analysis of their potential opportunities and challenges. Real-life experimentation is a key requirement for living labs as it enables deeper insights in the potential success of innovations. However, the literature has not provided insights on how living lab projects can implement real-life experimentation in B2B innovation projects and does not describe appropriate conditions for experimentation in these settings. In this study, we identified three main barriers preventing real-life experimentation in B2B living lab projects: the technological complexity, the need for integration, and the difficulty in identifying testers. The barriers are discussed in detailed and potential solutions are provided to help overcome these barriers and stimulate the adoption of real-life experimentation in B2B innovation projects. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 7 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1054 IS - 2 U1 - imec – SMIT – VUB Ruben D’Hauwers is a Researcher at imec-SMIT-VUB in Belgium. He holds a master’s degrees in Business Engineering (2011) and Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2013). He has also worked in the field of business development in two different organizations. He joined imec in 2014 and focuses on business-to-business research, business modelling, and on capturing and validating the assumptions throughout the innovation process. U2 - imec – MICT – Ghent University Aron-Levi Herregodts is a User Expert at imec.livinglabs and an affiliated researcher at imec – MICT – Ghent University in Belgium. He holds master’s degrees in Communication Sciences (2013) and Complementary Business Economics (2014). As a user expert, his role is to translate user behaviour, needs, and wants into tangible recommendations to provide structure to the innovation process of both SMEs and large organizations. His main research interests include open innovation, user innovation, organizational learning, intermediary activities, and user-centric design and methodologies. He is also preparing a PhD on the configuration of intermediary user-oriented activities with innovation-relevant actors for distinct types of entrepreneurs and innovations. U3 - imec – MICT – Ghent University Annabel Georges is a Junior Researcher in the research group at imec – MICT – Ghent University in Belgium. She holds a master’s degree in Communication Sciences from Ghent University, with a specialization in New Media and Society. Her main interests are domestication theory, field tests, and improvements to living lab practices. U4 - imec – MICT – Ghent University Lynn Coorevits is a Senior User Researcher for imec – MICT – Ghent University in Belgium, where she focuses on tools and techniques for open and user innovation, such as sensors and design thinking. Her current research focuses on the adoption and attrition of wearables as well as optimization of context integration in living lab projects. She works on several SME living lab projects ranging from the financial to social industry. She holds master’s degrees in Psychology and in Marketing Analysis from Ghent University and has 9 years of experience in innovation research and consultancy. U5 - imec – MICT – Ghent University Dimitri Schuurman is the Team Lead in User Research at imec.livinglabs and a Senior Researcher at imec – MICT – Ghent University in Belgium. He holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences from Ghent University. Together with his imec colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific living lab offering targeted at entrepreneurs in which he has managed over 100 innovation projects. Dimitri is responsible for the methodology and academic valorization of these living lab projects and coordinates a dynamic team of living lab researchers. His main interests and research topics are situated in the domains of open innovation, user innovation, and innovation management. His PhD thesis was entitled Bridging the Gap between Open and User Innovation? Exploring the Value of Living Labs as a Means to Structure User Contribution and Manage Distributed Innovation. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Innovation in Indian Organizations: Types of Collaboration JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Shiv S. Tripathi KW - collaboration KW - forms KW - India KW - manufacturing KW - Open innovation KW - risk KW - types AB - In order to succeed, it is important for any organization to leverage the power of the known and unknown networks around it. The organization must collaborate with others, and to do so requires it to open up its boundaries inside-out, outside-in, or both. However, the type of collaboration required to work with other parties and the respective output is different across different organizations on account of need, R&D intensity, capability, and risk-taking ability, as well as the nature of the business and industry. The major problem that comes in the way of open innovation in Indian organizations is their risk taking ability; the more an organization collaborates, the more risk it is taking by sharing internal information with the other parties. Through a sample of 31 manufacturing-based firms in India belonging to 12 different industries, the article explores the types of collaborations that they have with various related or unrelated organizations as they engage in open innovation. The article compares the collaborations each industry has entered into to identify the industries that are more open to take risks by collaborating with other parties in multiple ways. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/987 IS - 5 U1 - Management Development Institute Shiv S. Tripathi is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the Management Development Institute in Gurgaon, India. He holds a PhD degree from Vinod Gupta School of Management at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has published papers in the area of product and service innovations, growth strategies, and innovations in large organizations. He has presented papers at national and international conferences organized by the Indian Institutes of Management, Indian Schools of Business, and the Strategic Management Society. His current research interests include open innovation, ambidexterity, and innovation in emerging markets. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the International Society of Professional Innovation Management, and the Strategic Management Society. He is presently writing a book on innovation strategy. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Outcomes from Applying Design-Led Innovation in an Australian Manufacturing Firm JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Peter Townson A1 - Judy Matthews A1 - Cara Wrigley KW - customer insights KW - design-led innovation KW - innovation catalyst KW - manufacturing AB - Design-led innovation has recently emerged as an approach that assists companies to develop new capabilities to respond to changing markets. Previous research has shown that the application of design-led innovation to manufacturing businesses contributed to innovation across their business model, often repositioning the business and its offerings in the market. This article presents findings from a study where the researcher was embedded in an Australian firm, working four days per week for 11 months and using action research to apply design-led innovation. Deep insights from stakeholders were translated with the company staff into new value propositions for the company. This research demonstrates the largely untapped potential of an experienced designer as an innovation catalyst to help firms develop customer-inspired innovation as they use design-led innovation to overcome barriers and recognize opportunities within a changing market context. This study contributes new knowledge regarding benefits of design-led innovation in dynamic environments. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/997 IS - 6 U1 - Queensland University of Technology Peter Townson is a Design Facilitator for the PwC Chair in Digital Economy at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia, where he recently completed his Master's degree in design-led innovation. Peter lives the world of design in the nexus between academia and industry. From his background as an industrial designer and manufacturer, his translation of his craft from the physical world and into the service and digital worlds' builds off his post-graduate education and application of design-led innovation. Peter now facilitates innovation sprints that use design-led innovation to envision and design the future of our digital economy, while making his findings relevant to the applied academic audience of today. U2 - Queensland University of Technology Judy Matthews is a Senior Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Business School in Brisbane, Australia, where she teaches both MBAs and senior executives on the topics of innovation management, facilitates problem framing and problem solving in complex environments, and uses design thinking to develop and execute new possibilities. Her enthusiasm for the importance of innovation management can be traced to her research into innovation systems in Australia, in public sector research, and development and in the management of change. For the last six years, Judy has been an active researcher and facilitator in the development and application of design mindsets and methods, recognizing that the frameworks, tools, and mindsets of designers can be used to help managers to problem solve and innovate in their businesses and develop new business models. Judy holds a PhD from QUT and has published articles in a wide range of international journals, including the Journal of Business Research, the International Journal of Technology Management, Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice, and the Design Management Journal. U3 - University of Technology Sydney Cara Wrigley is Head of Research in the Design & Innovation Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. The Design & Innovation Research Centre (DI:rc) is a transdisciplinary centre located at UTS, focusing on the development of innovative, design-oriented research with the potential to transform companies. Building on her solid practical industry experience and combined with her scholarly expertise in emotional design, she is actively researching the value that design holds in business – specifically through the creation of strategies to design business models which lead to emotive customer engagement. Cara has presented and published widely in the field of design-led innovation and currently leading several initiatives to contribute to both industry and academia on the value of design to business. She holds a PhD and a Bachelor of the Built Environment from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia, in addition to a Bachelor of Design Studies from Griffith University in South East Queensland, Australia. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Optimizing Innovation with the Lean and Digitize Innovation Process JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Bernardo Nicoletti KW - agile innovation KW - Innovation management KW - lean and digitize KW - lean innovation KW - lean six sigma KW - re-engineering AB - Actionable knowledge to improve innovation and bring value to the customers and organizations is essential in today's economy. In the past, there have attempts to apply Lean Thinking and Six Sigma to the innovation processes, with mixed results. The aim of this article is discuss how to improve innovation processes using the Lean and Digitize Innovation process, which integrates digitization into the Lean Six Sigma method. Through the redesign of innovation processes and their automation, the process aims to add value to customers, improve effectiveness, eliminate waste, minimize operating costs, and reduce time-to-market. This new method is characterized by seven stages, or "the 7 Ds" (define, discover, design, develop, digitize, deploy, and diffusion), with 29 steps. This article describes the Lean and Digitize Innovation process and presents cases where the approach has been successful in helping innovation processes from start to end: from the definition of the value for the customers up to the implementation of a prototype and engineering of the delivery processes. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/879 IS - 3 U1 - Università di Tor Vergata Bernardo Nicolletti is a Lecturer at the Master in Procurement Management at the Università di Tor Vergata in Rome, Italy. He serves as a Director in Transigma, a strategy consultancy company specialized in process improvements and digitization in financial services with assignments in Europe, USA, and the Middle East. Bernardo has worked with General Electric Capital as Program Manager of a Common Systems and later as Group Chief Technology Officer of GE Money and Acting CIO. He has also been CIO Latin America for AIG UPC. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and author of books, papers, and blog posts, through which he describes his approaches to synthesizing Lean Six Sigma and automation. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Orchestrators of Innovation-Driven Regional Development: Experiences from the INNOFOKUS Project and Change2020 Programme JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Mervi Rajahonka A1 - Toni Pienonen A1 - Riikka Kuusisto A1 - Jari Handelberg KW - agile project development KW - experimentation-driven development KW - high-impact projects KW - orchestrator KW - regional development KW - regional innovation ecosystem KW - smart specialisation KW - smart specialization AB - The article takes a practical view of regional innovation ecosystems and presents ways to advance more efficient uses of public funding instruments by regional developers. Documenting the views of Finnish regional developers into two workbooks and a toolbox, the results of the INNOFOKUS project and its Change2020 development programme identified that promoting a high-impact project culture and smart specialization in Finland requires a continuous learning and participation process. Key individuals who can make this happen are innovation orchestrators who facilitate activities and compose the big picture. This article aims to bring forth an overview of the building blocks of an enriching and energizing environment and high-impact projects, and it presents an overview of how to enable the work of innovation orchestrators, who play a critical role in facilitating innovation ecosystems. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/937 IS - 10 U1 - Aalto University Mervi Rajahonka (D.Sc. (Econ)) works in the Aalto University School of Business Small Business Center (SBC) in Helsinki, Finland, as a project specialist and a researcher working with various research themes such as innovation, impact evaluation, and business and service models in areas such as creative industries, entrepreneurship, and logistics services. Mervi acted as a researcher in the INNOFOKUS project. U2 - Business Arena Oy Toni Pienonen is a Project Designer at the Business Arena Oy in Jyväskylä, Finland, where he works on themes related to university–business cooperation, entrepreneurship, and participatory regional development. Toni acted as a facilitator in the INNOFOKUS Change2020 programme and is a co-author of the two programme workbooks. U3 - Aalto University Riikka Kuusisto works in the Aalto University School of Business Small Business Center (SBC) in Helsinki, Finland, and he was project manager of the INNOFOKUS project. She has nearly ten years of experience and expertise in innovation and knowledge management systems development. Riikka is also a specialist in e-learning, online collaboration, and online working models. U4 - Aalto University Jari Handelberg (D.Sc. (Econ)) is Research Director at the Aalto University School of Business Small Business Center (SBC) in Helsinki, Finland. He has long-term experience in managing EU-funded projects. His research interests focus on entrepreneurship and regional development. Jari was a member of the INNOFOKUS project steering group and was an active participant in the Change2020 programme. 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 - The Online World of the Future: Safe, Productive, and Creative JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tony Bailetti A1 - Renaud Levesque A1 - D’Arcy Walsh KW - bisociation KW - cybersecurity KW - excludability KW - future vision KW - Industrial Internet KW - Internet KW - Internet of Everything KW - Internet of Things KW - online KW - productivity KW - rivalry KW - safety KW - security AB - A safer online world is required to attain higher levels of productivity and creativity. We offer a view of a future state of the online world that places safety, productivity, and creativity above all else. The online world envisaged for 2030 is safe (i.e., users communicate with accuracy and enduring confidence), productive (i.e., users make timely decisions that have an ongoing global effect), and creative (i.e., users can connect seemingly unrelated information online). The proposed view differs from other views of the future online world that are anchored around technology solutions, confrontation, deception, and personal or commercial gain. The following seven conditions characterize the proposed view of the online world: i) global-scale autonomous learning systems; ii) humans co-working with machines; iii) human factors that are authentic and transferrable; iv) global scale whole-brain communities; v) foundational knowledge that is authentic and transferrable; vi) timely productive communication; and vii) continuous technological adaptation. These conditions are expected to enable new social-behavioural, socio-technical, and organizational interaction models. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 4 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/834 IS - 10 U1 - Carleton University Tony Bailetti is an Associate Professor in the Sprott School of Business and the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Professor Bailetti is the Director of Carleton University's Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program. His research, teaching, and community contributions support technology entrepreneurship, regional economic development, and international co-innovation. U2 - Communications Security Establishment Renaud Levesque is the Director General of Core Systems at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in Ottawa, Canada, where he is responsible for R&D and systems development. He has significant experience in the delivery of capability and organizational change in highly technical environments. His career began at CSE in 1986 as a Systems Engineer, responsible for the development and deployment of numerous systems, including the CSE IP corporate network in 1991. In 2000 Renaud went to work in the private sector as Head of Speech Technologies at Locus Dialogue, and later at Infospace Inc., where he became Director of Speech Solutions Engineering. He rejoined CSE in 2003, where he assumed the lead role in the IT R&D section. Subsequently, as a Director General, he focused efforts towards the emergence of CSE's Joint Research Office and The Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing. Renaud holds a Bachelor of Engineering from l’École Polytechnique, Université de Montréal, Canada. U3 - Communications Security Establishment D’Arcy Walsh is a Science Advisor at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include software-engineering methods and techniques that support the development and deployment of dynamic systems, including dynamic languages, dynamic configuration, context-aware systems, and autonomic and autonomous systems. He received his BAH from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and he received his BCS, his MCS, and his PhD in Computer Science from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration in an Open Source Ecosystem JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2014 A1 - Derek Smith A1 - Asrar Alshaikh A1 - Rawan Bojan A1 - Anish Kak A1 - Mohammad Mehdi Gharaei Manesh KW - business ecosystem KW - collaboration KW - collaboration barriers KW - communities KW - competitors KW - complementors KW - core community KW - governance KW - open source AB - Leveraging open source practices provides value to businesses when entrepreneurs and managers understand how to collaborate effectively in an open source ecosystem. However, the complex mix of different actors and varying barriers to effective collaboration in the ecosystem pose a substantial challenge. How can a business create and capture value if it depends on effective collaboration among these different groups? In this article, we review the published research on open source collaboration and reveal insights that will be beneficial to entrepreneurs and managers. We organize the published research into four streams based upon the following actor groups: i) governance actors, ii) competitors, iii) complementors, and iv) the core community. Then, through induction and synthesis, we identify barriers to collaboration, first by ecosystem and then by actor group. Finally, we offer six recommendations for identifying and overcoming barriers to collaboration in an open source ecosystem. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 4 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/758 IS - 1 U1 - Carleton University Derek Smith is the founder and principal of Magneto Innovention Management, an intellectual property consulting firm that assists entrepreneurs and small businesses with difficult intellectual property issues. He has over 20 years of experience working as an intellectual property management consultant and patent agent for IBM Canada, Bell Canada and, most recently, Husky Injection Molding Systems where he was Director, Global Intellectual Property. Prior to entering the field of intellectual property, he was an advisory engineer at IBM Canada where he was involved in a variety of leading-edge software development projects. Derek is currently a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He also holds a BEng degree in Systems and Computer Engineering from Carleton University and is a registered patent agent in both Canada and the United States. U2 - Carleton University Asrar Abdulqader Alshaikh is a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Accounting degree from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Her work experience includes customer service in a sale for distribution and communication company as well as working for the Alahli Bank (NCB) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Her main area of research interest is collaborative consumption. U3 - Carleton University Rawan Mohammad Bojan is a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She has professional experience in the banking industry and holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. U4 - Carleton University Anish Kak is a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He holds a BEng degree in Computer Science Engineering, from Birla Institute of Technology in India. Anish has two years of experience in the information technology services sector, which he gained while working for Hewlett-Packard in India. His research interests include the electronic sports ecosystem. U5 - Carleton University Mohammad Mehdi Gharaei Manesh is a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He holds an MBA degree from Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business and also has a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University in Iran. He has 5 years of working experience in a medical equipment company and his main area of interest relates to crowdsourcing and international business. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Innovation at the Root of Entrepreneurial Strategy: A Case from the Norwegian Oil Industry JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Tatiana Iakovleva KW - entrepreneurial orientation KW - entrepreneurial strategies KW - Open innovation KW - SMEs AB - This article aims to extend the discussion about entrepreneurial strategies of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by including the concept of open innovation. How can SMEs overcome the challenges of resource scarcity and harsh competition? How they can gain competitive advantage in today’s ever-changing business environment? The answer to both of these questions might be through open innovation: collaborating with researchers, customers, suppliers – even competitors – as well as research institutions and universities. A common barrier to open innovation in an SME is the perception that it will be too time consuming to gain access to a knowledge base of external knowledge providers and link to “gatekeepers” of knowledge. However, an entrepreneurial mindset might help SMEs to move toward an open-innovation approach, where more codified and transferrable knowledge are important. This article discusses the implications of an entrepreneurial focus for open-innovation activities. The usefulness of the open-innovation principles are highlighted through a case study of an Norwegian SME operating in the maritime-oil industry. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/675 IS - 4 U1 - Stavanger School of Business Tatiana Iakovleva is an Associate Professor in the Stavanger School of Business at Stavanger University, Norway. She received Master of Science degrees in Business in Norway (1998) and in Russia (1999), and a PhD in Management (Innovation and Entrepreneurship) from Bode Graduate School of Business, Norway (2007). Dr. Iakovleva’s research interests include personal and organizational antecedents leading to innovation and superior entrepreneurial performance, female entrepreneurship, as well as factors affecting entrepreneurial intentions. Dr. Iakovleva has published over 20 articles in international journals and has received multiple best paper awards at entrepreneurship-related conferences. She also does consulting work in relation to firm strategies and entrepreneurial startups. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Innovation Processes in Living Lab Innovation Systems: Insights from the LeYLab JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Dimitri Schuurman A1 - Lieven De Marez A1 - Pieter Ballon KW - knowledge exchange KW - living labs KW - Open innovation KW - open innovation networks KW - user innovation AB - Living labs have emerged on the crossroads of the open innovation and user innovation frameworks. As open innovation systems, living labs consist of various actors with each playing their specific role. Within this article, we will take an open innovation perspective by analyzing the knowledge spill-overs between living lab actors through three in-depth innovation case studies taking place within the LeYLab living lab in Kortrijk, Belgium. The results illustrate how living labs foster the three open innovation processes of exploration, exploitation, and retention. From our analysis, we conclude that living labs are particularly useful for exploration and, to a lesser extent, exploitation. In terms of retention, living labs seem to hold a large potential; however, the success and the nature of the innovation processes depend on the sustainability of living labs, the number of innovation cases, and the alignment of these cases with the living lab infrastructure. Based on these findings, a concrete set of guidelines is proposed for innovating in living labs and for setting up a living lab constellation. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/743 IS - 11 U1 - iMinds Dimitri Schuurman is a Senior Researcher at the iMinds Media & ICT (MICT) research group and is responsible for the methodology of living lab projects facilitated by iMinds iLab.o. His involvement in living labs started in 2010 with the Mediatuin and LeYLab living labs. To date, he has managed over 30 concrete living lab projects that deal with new media and innovative use of ICT. He is currently finishing his PhD on living labs at Ghent University in Belgium. U2 - iMinds Lieven De Marez is Research Director of the iMinds Media & ICT (MICT) research group and teaches on the topics of innovation research and new communication technologies in the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University in Belgium. MICT is one of 16 research groups within iMinds, and Lieven is also part of the management team of iLab.o, iMinds’ facilitating infrastructure for living lab research. U3 - iMinds Pieter Ballon is Director Living Labs at iMinds and Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. He also heads iMinds’ Market Innovation & Sector Transition research team, specializing in new business models for the telecommunications and media industries. He leads various national and international projects on open innovation platforms, real-life ICT experiments, and business models for media and ICT services. Since 2009, Pieter is the International Secretary of the European Network of Living Labs. From 2006 to 2007, he coordinated the joint research on business models for future mobile IP-based systems of the Wireless World Initiative (WWI) in the EU 6th Framework Programme. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Invention Network: A Defensive Patent Pool for Open Source Projects and Businesses JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Deborah Nicholson KW - innovation KW - linux KW - patent AB - This article explores how patents impact innovation within free/libre open source software (F/LOSS) businesses and projects. The number of software patent suits brought each year is increasing and is diverting millions of dollars in funds from developers to lawyers. With patent suits on the rise, the US Supreme Court has left the F/LOSS community in a position where it must either wait years for legislation or address the issue of patent suits itself. However, defending the Linux kernel and related technologies is a different challenge than the one that faces proprietary software businesses. This article describes Open Invention Network, an initiative that is designed to meet the particular challenges facing the F/LOSS community and businesses by providing a defensive patent pool. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/511 IS - 1 U1 - Open Invention Network Deborah Nicholson works at the intersection of technology and social justice. She has been a free speech advocate, economic justice organizer, and civil liberties defender. After working in Massachusetts politics for fifteen years, she became involved in the free software movement. She is the Community Outreach Director at Open Invention Network and the Community Manager at Media Goblin. She also serves on the board at Open Hatch, a non-profit dedicated to providing tools and education for potential new free software contributors. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she is slowly pursuing a graduate degree in Information Technology. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Organizational Ambidexterity: How Small Technology Firms Balance Innovation and Support JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - John Schreuders A1 - Alem Legesse KW - ambidextrous organization KW - entrepreneurship KW - innovation KW - support AB - Many technology entrepreneurs start their companies by focusing on an innovation that creates a market offer to attract their first customers. When the entrepreneur’s firm makes its first sale, the dynamics of the organization change and the entrepreneur faces a new challenge: how can the firm concurrently develop new products and support existing customers? This problem is of great concern to entrepreneurs who own small technology firms and is the subject of this article. In this article, we first address the innovate-versus-support dilemma that small technology firms face early in their lifecycles. Next, we describe the paradigm of the ambidextrous organization. We conclude with a discussion of five mechanisms small firms can use to achieve balance in their quest to concurrently satisfy the need to innovate while fulfilling the demands of existing clients and products. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/522 IS - 2 U1 - Carleton University John Schreuders is a senior software systems engineer at Mitel Networks in Kanata, Ontario. John is a licensed professional engineer with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO). After graduating from the Royal Military College in Kingston, John started his engineering career as a combat systems engineer in the Canadian Navy. After that, he went on to work for defence contractors and later for the International Space Station project. Recently John returned from working in New York as a software systems engineer for Wall Street. He is currently pursuing his Master’s degree in Technology Innovation Management at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. U2 - Carleton University Alem Legesse is pursuing his M.Eng studies in Carleton University’s Technology Innovation Management program in Ottawa, Canada. He is the founder of Syncrodata Inc., a software company that provides software development services for Android, Blackberry, and iOS devices. He holds an MSc degree offered jointly by computer science, engineering, and mathematics at Carleton University. His research interests are mobile developments, telecommunications, open source, and business models. He previously worked as a software designer for RIM, Alcatel-Lucent, and Nortel, and as a flight security analyst for Transport Canada. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - An Overview of Four Issues on Technology Entrepreneurship in the TIM Review JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Tony Bailetti A1 - Sonia D. Bot A1 - Tom Duxbury A1 - David Hudson A1 - Chris McPhee A1 - Steven Muegge A1 - Michael Weiss A1 - Jonathan Wells A1 - Mika Westerlund KW - creative destruction KW - global entrepreneurship KW - journal articles KW - social entrepreneurship KW - technology entrepreneurship KW - theory AB - The field of technology entrepreneurship is in its infancy when compared to other fields such as economics and management. Articles on technology entrepreneurship have been published in at least 62 journals, of which only 18 contribute to technology innovation management or entrepreneurship. Less than a handful of these 62 journals are considered to be "good" journals and none can claim a leadership position in technology entrepreneurship. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the 20 journal articles published in the February, March, April, and May 2012 issues of the Technology Innovation Management Review (TIM Review). PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/557 IS - 5 U1 - Carleton University Tony Bailetti is an Associate Professor in the Sprott School of Business and the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Professor Bailetti is the Director of Carleton University's Technology Innovation Management program. His research, teaching, and community contributions support technology entrepreneurship, regional economic development, and international co-innovation. (See end of article for further author biographies.) ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source License Selection in Relation to Business Models JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2011 A1 - Carlo Daffara AB - This article provides recent research results from the European Union's FLOSSMetrics project. The results focus on the business and practical aspects of the adoption of open source within software products or as a basis of service offerings. Research into free/libre open source software (F/LOSS) is usually conducted with a software engineering focus or with an emphasis on F/LOSS as a spontaneous or directed collaboration effort. The FLOSSMetrics project expanded that research with an investigation on how licenses, business models, and project choices affect development and productization. This article provides a summary of common licensing issues and business models choices in F/LOSS, and it provides a list of recommendations for selecting a license for a software project to suit both business objectives and licensing constraints. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/416 IS - February 2011 U1 - Conecta Carlo Daffara is head of research at Conecta, an open source consulting company. He is the Italian member of the European Working Group on Libre Software, chairs several other working groups, including the Open Source Middleware Group of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and the Internet Society Working Group on Public Software, and contributed to the article presented by ISOC to UNESCO on global trends for universal access to information resources. His current research activity is centered on the sustainability of business models for open source software. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open is the New Closed: How the Mobile Industry uses Open Source to Further Commercial Agendas JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Andreas Constantinou AB - Openness is a much-misunderstood word. It represents a kind of good-will moniker to which people attach an impressive variety of definitions: open source code, open standards, open handsets, openness as in transparency, shared roadmaps, open application programming interfaces (APIs), open route to market, and so on. It is a very forgiving term as far as definitions go. One of the mobile industry's favourite facets of openness is open source code. Since 2007, tens of mobile industry giants and consortia have embraced open source in some form or other: the Symbian Foundation, LiMo Foundation, Google's Android, Nokia's Qt, Apple's WebKit and Nokia+Intel's Meego are the initiatives that have hit the industry front pages. On the surface, these initiatives use open source licenses, but that only tells half the story. Behind the scenes, Google, Apple, Nokia and others use restrictive governance models and control points that effectively detract the very freedoms that open source licensing is meant to bestow. This discusses the many forms that governance models can take, and how they are used in the mobile industry to tightly control the roadmap and application of open source projects. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/330 IS - March 2010 U1 - VisionMobile Andreas Constantinou is the Research Director at VisionMobile where he oversees the company's research, advisory and industry mapping projects. He has ten years experience in research, development and strategy in mobile, specialising in the handset ecosystem, software strategy and open source. Andreas has worked on several product and marketing strategy projects for clients including Sony Ericsson, RIM, Microsoft, France Telecom, T-Mobile, OMTP, Qualcomm, ST Ericsson, Gemalto and Trolltech and authored numerous research reports for analyst firms Informa, Ovum and ARCchart. Andreas also teaches the Mobile Open Source workshop, part of VisionMobile's 360 degree training courses on complex industry sectors. Prior to founding VisionMobile, Andreas spent 3 years at Orange's Research and Innovation division, including serving as a technology lead for the Orange-Microsoft relationship. His interests include uncovering under-the-radar industry trends and pursuing human-centric design. When not hopping on planes, Andreas spends his time in Athens, Greece. Andreas holds a Ph.D. in Image and Video Compression from the University of Bristol, UK. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source Contributions as a Complement to Your Sales Strategy JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jason Côté A1 - Julian Egelstaff AB - Freeform Solutions, a not-for-profit IT consultancy, discovered a large portion of its work was being carried out without being paid for directly from consulting fees. This led to an investigation of the nature of such pro bono work, and what value it could provide to Freeform and its clients. Supporting open source communities was determined to be the most significant use of the time possible. Accordingly, Freeform has taken steps to focus a significant portion of its work on that task, and to integrate this work with its overall orientation to clients. This commitment to open source provides a strong differentiator in the marketplace. It also enables one kind of prioritization of sales leads. Ultimately, the commitment to the work is considered the most important aspect of the work, rather than the specific kind of activities that are undertaken, or how they are paid for. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/387 IS - October 2010 U1 - Freeform Solutions Jason Côté is the President and CEO of Freeform Solutions. He has held senior positions at CANARIE, as well as chief executive positions at Actua, and CanadaHelps, all three of them leading national not-for-profits that excel in the use of information technology. Today, Jason oversees all operations at Freeform, and works with clients and staff to build the IT capacity of the not-for-profit sector. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering and an Executive MBA in Leadership. U2 - Freeform Solutions Julian Egelstaff has been working in the software and IT industries for over 13 years. In 2003, he co-founded Freeform Solutions, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help other not-for-profits use technology more effectively. The idea for Freeform Solutions came from seeing how not-for-profit and public sector organizations have many IT challenges in common, but they experience them and approach them differently from commercial organizations. Maybe a for-the-sector, by-the-sector, approach could help everyone do better? These days Julian puts all his experience to use planning systems with Freeform's partners. He is also the lead programmer of the open source project Formulize, which is a web form and data management system that is designed to provide non-programmers with the ability to create database systems on the web. Before working with technology, Julian spent a lot of time writing and thinking his way towards a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Philosophy. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Open Source Mobile Cloud: Delivering Next-Gen Mobile Apps and Systems JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Hal Steger AB - Cloud computing is gaining acceptance as an efficient and cost-effective architecture to deploy many types of systems. More recently, mobile cloud computing has entered the scene, as an important means to deliver mobile apps and data. This article discusses trends that are driving the adoption of the mobile cloud, important components of mobile cloud infrastructure, and the role of open source. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/335 IS - March 2010 U1 - Funambol Hal Steger is Vice President of Marketing at Funambol, inc., the leading provider of open source mobile cloud platforms for billions of devices. Hal has over twenty years of experience in the high tech industry. He holds an MBA (M.S.I.A.) from Carnegie-Mellon University and a B.S. from the University of Michigan with a concentration in computer science. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source Partner Strategy: Are Your Core Businesses Aligned? JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Susan Riekki-Odle AB - Technology companies have historically viewed partnerships through myopic, one-way lenses, asking only: "What can this partner do for me?" This type of thinking is even more pervasive with channel sales partnerships, where technology vendors limit the exploration of value to short term revenue contribution. Vendors must broaden their scope and range of site when embarking on a path of partnership strategy. Ecosystem analysis, economic modeling, and creative go-to-market development are critical components of successful partnership strategies. This article discusses this critical business strategy through a real world example and an overview of best practice. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/364 IS - July 2010 U1 - ChannelGain Susan Riekki-Odle is Founder and President of ChannelGain. ChannelGain enables early-stage and early-growth technology companies to succeed in channels and strategic partnerships. It does this by objectively assessing existing programs, identifying gaps and opportunities, developing customized strategies that support the corporate plan and mentor resources to increase overall effectiveness. Over the past 16 years, Susan's high-tech experience has touched every function within the sales organization. At a management level, Susan has performed the role of Manager of Channels, Director of Sales, Director of Channels, Vice President of Sales, and Vice President of Operations. Susan has held these permanent revenue-based roles with Quest Software, FastLane Technologies, neuroLanguage, OmniMark Technologies, and Peak Sales Recruiting. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - An Open Source Solution for Startups JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - William Stewart AB - Can open source help startup companies reduce cost, save time, and improve their productivity? This article describes the experience of the startup Eseri which spent three years integrating the world's best open source software into a complete turn-key small to medium enterprise information technology solution. Eseri uses their own system to run the company. Having recently launched, they have targeted startups as their most important market segment. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/326 IS - February 2010 U1 - ESERI William Stewart is CEO of Eseri. Before founding Eseri, Bill spent 12 years at Lockheed Martin Canada where he served variously as company software and system engineering manager, and engineering lead and project manager of several large system integration projects. Previously, Bill received a Ph.D. in computer science from UNB and worked for the Canadian Federal Civil Service. Bill is an individual member with the Linux Foundation, author of a light-weight software package licensed under the GPL, and maintainer of FreeOpenSourceSoftware.org. He is also author of the Internet reference site LivingInternet.com and the best practices collection FunStandard.org. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source User Assistance: Ensuring That Everybody Wins JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Janet Swisher AB - This article describes the importance of user assistance to the success of open source projects and offers some suggestions on fostering community contributions to open source user assistance. The term "user assistance" encompasses all the ways that users get help in figuring out how to use a product, spanning the traditional categories of both documentation and support. User assistance provides opportunities for participation by community members who are not software developers. This in turn relieves the burden on developers for filling these roles while broadening the community. Projects should support the differing motivations of members in these roles while providing leadership and direction, removing barriers to contribution, and engaging in concerted efforts. Licensing for open source documentation should likewise be open, to support user freedom and foster community collaboration. Leaders in open source user assistance need to share ideas across projects in order to improve their offerings. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/316 IS - January 2010 U1 - FLOSS Manuals Janet Swisher's first experience with online collaborative writing was compiling the Twin Peaks FAQ for the Usenet group alt.tv.twin-peaks in 1991. She has been a professional technical writer for over ten years, at various technology companies in Austin, Texas. She has contributed to open source documentation for OpenOffice.org and the Python-based Enthought Tool Suite, and for a number of open source projects through FLOSS Manuals. She blogs about topics related to technical communication and open source software on her "Techie Tech Writer" blog. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open to Everyone: How Open Source Communities Can Benefit from Diversity Without Disunity JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Teresa Jewell AB - Open source is at once a type of software licensing, a community model, an ideology, and a social movement. As a movement aiming not only to promote open source software within the software development community, but also to change the attitudes of commercial users, it can benefit from lessons learned by earlier social movements. This article is intended for entrepreneurs, developers, and open source proponents who wish to maximize the market for their products. It will begin with a discussion of the successful strategies and common pitfalls of the feminist movement. It will then apply these lessons to the open source community. Overall, it will discuss the importance of united ideologies, inclusive communities, and the pursuit of legislative changes in promoting open source software as a viable alternative to traditional proprietary software. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/369 IS - August 2010 U1 - York University Teresa Jewell is a researcher in Women's Studies at York University. She holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English with a focus on Medieval Studies. Her current projects include TheQueery.com, a research website dedicated to questions of culture and identity related to gender and sexuality. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - OpenOttawaLibre: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Building Creative Cities JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Michael Ayukawa A1 - Julie Dupont AB - OpenOttawaLibre (OOL) is a multidisciplinary approach that is being developed to strengthen Ottawa's position as a creative city. Faced with stiff competition from globally dominant mega-centres, smaller cities like Ottawa can compensate for their size by actively bringing together people to exchange ideas, share perspectives, and form new partnerships to solve existing and emerging problems. OOL will make it easy to organize these events and lower the risk by developing an ecosystem with experienced facilitators, physical resources, and proven processes. OOL is anchored by Ottawa's cultural planning group and aims to make Ottawa a global magnet for creative industries and talent. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/371 IS - August 2010 U1 - Cornerportal Michael Ayukawa is founder of Cornerportal, a company making it easy and low risk to organize your own cultural event. Michael is also a Master's student in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University who has embraced the paradigm of the business ecosystem. U2 - City of Ottawa Julie DuPont is a Cultural Planner for the City of Ottawa, she has a degree in fine art and a diploma in fine metals. Julie has been working in project management of Public Art for the last 20 years. She has a keen interest in digital technology and creative ideas. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Ottercall: A Language Learning Company JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Elias Majic AB - Using computer-assisted speech recognition to evaluate the pronunciation of a speaker, Ottercall provides its customers with feedback on how to improve their language skills. In this article, Ottercall's plan to enter a crowded competitive environment will be described. The article first describes the language-learning market and the points of difference between existing solutions. Next, it will outline the various strategies and decisions considered by Ottercall in developing its market entry strategy. Finally, the lessons learned through this process will be shared. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/379 IS - September 2010 U1 - Carleton University Elias Majic has a Bachelor's degree in software engineering from Carleton University. He worked for several years at software companies before pursuing Ottercall, a language learning startup that uses web-enabled speech recognition. He is a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program at Carleton University. His research interests are focused on the adoption of speech recognition. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Offline: Where Tech Communities Succeed With Women JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Selena Deckelmann AB - Conferences are one way that women can be drawn into the free/libre and open source software ecosystem. Many different approaches are needed to increase women's participation in F/LOSS, but face-to-face interaction has proven to be a critical part of the way the technology community in Portland, Oregon has thrived. This article describes through anecdotes the successes of this community, and suggests how other communities could benefit from Portland's experience. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/263 IS - June 2009 U1 - End Point Corporation Selena Deckelmann works for End Point Corporation and is an enthusiastic open source advocate and PostgreSQL specialist. She is co-chair of the Open Source Bridge conference, a conference for open source citizens. In her spare time, she likes to mix drinks for her local Perl and Postgres user groups and fetch eggs from her chickens (when she has them). ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source BI: A Market Overview JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Steve Holub AB - The following survey provides a list of open source software tools used in business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing systems. The tool selection criteria was based on the frequency and currency of the releases and on whether the product has released a stable build which could be used in a production environment. We only present those solutions which have had updates within the past two years. Our study looked at BI tools in the following categories: i) databases; ii) extract, transform, and load; iii) master data management; iv) BI reporting tools; and v) data mining. In the case of an open source software bundle that overlaps categories, we divide the software bundle into its separate parts for ease of categorization. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/287 IS - September 2009 U1 - SQL Power Group Steve Holub is a Business Intelligence Consultant with SQL Power Group. Steve graduated from McMaster University with a Master's degree in Economics, and received Database Application Developer training from Seneca@York. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source BI Reporting Tool Review JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Benjamin Dietz A1 - Lily Singh AB - The main purpose of a business intelligence (BI) system is to provide access to information for decision makers. Reporting tools help to create, administer and distribute reports. Reports can be classified into three categories: i) standard reports containing information in table form; ii) cubes which are online analytical processing reports designed to analyze multidimensional data; and iii) dashboards which provide an overview of selected reports and key performance indicators. Each of these report types are often supplemented by graphical representations of the data. There are many different reporting solutions available in the open source market. In this article, we compare four open source reporting solutions. They give a good insight of the current state of the market and are among the the most popular solutions in use today. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/288 IS - September 2009 U1 - SQL Power Group Benjamin Dietz is a Business Intelligence Consultant at SQL Power Group. Benjamin wrote his masters thesis on Open Source Business Intelligence and graduated from University of Applied Science Karlsruhe, Germany with a Master of Business Information Systems. U2 - SQL Power Group Lily Singh is a Business Intelligence consultant at SQL Power. A graduate form the University of Waterloo, Lily has been a consultant with SQL Power for the past 2 years. In this time she has contributed to different projects ranging from Data Migration, Data Cleansing to building complete Data Warehouses. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source Resources in Education: Opportunities and Challenges JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Norm Friesen AB - The education community has been at the forefront in envisioning and conceptualizing infrastructures intended for utilizing and sharing digital content or resources. However, this community has faced challenges in making these visions a reality. We begin by describing a relatively early attempt at creating an economy for sharing educational resources, referred to as learning objects. We then discuss two approaches to opening up educational contents to the world under the auspices of the more recent Open Educational Resources movement. One of these approaches has focused on creating open resources from scratch, utilizing Wiki content development and management technologies in the wake of the phenomenal success of Wikipedia. A second approach is represented by developments in Open Courseware. Following the example of MIT's Open Courseware, this approach has more recently been adopted by many other educational institutions under the OCW Consortium. We conclude by making the case that this second approach may represent the most promising of recent developments in the adaptation of open source and open content to educational practices and technologies. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/271 IS - July 2009 U1 - Thompson Rivers University Dr. Norm Friesen is Canada Research Chair in E-Learning Practices at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, Canada. Dr. Friesen has been developing and studying Web technologies in educational contexts since 1995, is the author of several editions of books on the effective use of instructional software, is co-editor of Phenomenology and Practice, and is a member of the Canadian delegation to the ISO subcommittee for Learning, Education and Training. He previously worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, and as an adjunct or visiting faculty at Athabasca University, at the University of Toronto, the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Innsbruck. He holds Master's degrees from the University of Alberta and Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Education from the University of Alberta. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source: Shifting Buying and Evaluation Patterns of BI Users JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - John Kemp AB - The emergence of open source software (OSS) has changed the buying patterns and approaches for the evaluation and selection of business intelligence (BI) tools. This article discusses how the buying patterns have changed and what it means for businesses looking at open source BI software. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/286 IS - September 2009 U1 - SQL Power Group John Kemp is a Principal Consultant with SQL Power Group. John is responsible for the delivery of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects at SQL Power. A 20 year information technology veteran, John previously provided Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence consulting services with KPMG, SAS Institute, Infobright Inc., and as the lead of his own consulting firm. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source Web Based Geospatial Processing with OMAR JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Mark Lucas A1 - Scott Bortman AB - The availability of geospatial data sets is exploding. New satellites, aerial platforms, video feeds, global positioning system tagged digital photos, and traditional GIS information are dramatically increasing across the globe. These raw materials need to be dynamically processed, combined and correlated to generate value added information products to answer a wide range of questions. This article provides an overview of OMAR web based geospatial processing. OMAR is part of the Open Source Software Image Map project under the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. The primary contributors of OSSIM make their livings by providing professional services to US Government agencies and programs. OMAR provides one example that open source software solutions are increasingly being deployed in US government agencies. We will also summarize the capabilities of OMAR and its plans for near term development. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/236 IS - February 2009 U1 - RadiantBlue Technologies Mark Lucas has pioneered efforts in OSS development in remote sensing, image processing and GIS. Mark established remotesensing.org and has led several government funded studies and development efforts since 1996. These efforts include OSSIM projects for the National Reconnaissance Office, the Open Source Prototype Research and Open Source Extraordinary Program projects for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. He is currently leading the Open Technology Development effort within the Department of Defense Advanced Systems and Concepts in collaboration with National Information Infrastructure and the Business Transformation Agency. Mark has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Arizona and a MS in Computer Science from West Coast University. He was commissioned in the Air Force and assigned to the Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects organization. He has experience as both a government and contractor program manager through a number of classified programs. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, the Open Source Software Institute, and the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research. Mark is currently a principal scientist at RadiantBlue Technologies Inc. U2 - OMAR Scott Bortman is the system architect and primary developer for the OMAR web processing system. He has been a primary contributor to the OSSIM software baseline over the last decade. He has a BS and MS of Computer Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology and has worked for a number of government contractors including Computer Science Innovations, ImageLinks Inc., Intelligence Data Systems, and L3 Corporation. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer for RadiantBlue Technologies Inc. Scott has a strong background in database design, Image Processing, C++ and Java programming. Within the OSSIM development team, Scott is known for his ability to stay current with the latest advances in software development tools, methodologies, and approaches. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Opening the Source of Art JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - John Bell AB - The open source community has developed a number of tools and philosophies to assist in distributed software development. The Still Water Lab at the University of Maine believes that these tools and philosophies can be adapted to facilitate other forms of distributed creative endeavours. It has developed two tools that reinterpret the ideas used in open source software through the lenses of artistic creation and preservation: The Pool and the Variable Media Questionnaire. This article discusses how several of the ideas used in software development have influenced Still Water's approach to making tools that support artistic production. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/294 IS - October 2009 U1 - University of Maine John Bell is a web application developer, data artist, and adjunct faculty at the University of Maine New Media department. He has contributed to the development of The Pool, a system for fostering and documenting distributed creativity in digital arts; the Variable Media Questionnaire, a tool used in the recreation of technologically obsolete artwork; released several open-source web authoring tools; and given birth to an artificial intelligence that accidentally committed suicide. Many of his projects focus on trust in online communities and maintaining intellectual integrity in environments where there are few consequences to ignoring it. His work has been featured in Wired online and at Ars Electronica's Electrolobby Kitchen. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Omeka: Open Source Web Publishing for Research, Collections and Exhibitions JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tom Scheinfeldt AB - Well into the second decade of the web, many collecting institutions and aspiring digital humanists still find it difficult to mount online exhibitions and publish collections-based research because they lack either technical skills or sufficient funding to pay high priced web design vendors. The digital libraries and archives fields have produced high quality repository and collections management software, but these packages carry too much technical overhead and pay too little attention to web presentation and end user interface for most digital humanities projects. Commercial blog packages have made it easy for digital humanists to publish materials to the web, but the blog's structure of serial text posts does not allow them to present deep collections or complex narratives. That is why the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society, has created Omeka. From the Swahili word meaning "to display" or "to lay out for discussion," Omeka is a next generation web publishing platform for academic work of all kinds, one that bridges the university, library, and museum worlds through--and by helping to advance--a set of commonly recognized web and metadata standards. Omeka is free and open source. It offers low installation and maintenance costs--appealing to individual scholars and smaller cultural heritage projects and institutions that lack technical staffs and large budgets. It is standards based, extensible, and interoperable--insuring compliance with accessibility guidelines and integration with existing digital collections systems to help digital humanists of all stripes design online exhibitions more efficiently. Omeka brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to digital humanities websites, fostering the kind of user interaction and participation that are central to the mission of digital humanities, and providing the contribution mechanisms, tagging facilities, and social networking tools that audiences are coming to expect. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/211 IS - December 2008 U1 - George Mason University Tom Scheinfeldt is Managing Director of the Center for History and New Media and Research Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. He is the executive producer of Omeka. He blogs at Found History and is a regular on Digital Campus, a biweekly podcast on educational technology and digital humanities research. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Carrier Grade Base Platform JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Vijay Mahendran AB - This article introduces the SCOPE Alliance, a vertical alliance focused on accelerating the development of open standards for carrier grade base platforms, the base platforms satisfying the carrier grade requirements of the telecommunication industry. The focus of these network equipment providers is to build base platforms comprised of hardware, middleware, and an operating system using open modular building blocks to provide service solutions. Secondly, the article presents an adoption model along with the benefits, risks and factors affecting the adoption of open CGBPs by telecommunication companies. This adoption model is beneficial to top management teams and project managers who wish to improve the product development process. It also provides startups and independent software vendors a reference model to cost effectively deliver products and obtain maximum return. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/114 IS - January 2008 U1 - Nortel Vijay Mahendran is currently working as an embedded designer at Nortel. Vijay recently received his master's degree in Technology Innovation Management program from Carleton University. His research topic was the adoption of open carrier grade base platforms in the telecommunication industry. His interests include open source, network packet processing and embedded systems. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Hardware Business Models JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Edy Ferreira AB - In the September issue of the Open Source Business Resource, Patrick McNamara, president of the Open Hardware Foundation, gave a comprehensive introduction to the concept of open hardware, including some insights about the potential benefits for both companies and users. In this article, we present the topic from a different perspective, providing a classification of market offers from companies that are making money with open hardware. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/136 IS - April 2008 U1 - Carleton University Edy Ferreira is an Electronics Engineer who has worked in the Telecommunications industry. He is currently a graduate student in the M.A.S.c in Technology and Innovation Management at Carleton University and this article is based on preliminary results from his thesis about how companies make money with OSH. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Health Tools: Tooling for Interoperable Healthcare JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Skip McGaughey A1 - Ken Rubin AB - The Open Health Tools initiative is creating an ecosystem focused on the production of software tooling that promotes the exchange of medical information across political, geographic, cultural, product, and technology lines. At its core, OHT believes that the availability of high-quality tooling that interoperates will propel the industry forward, enabling organizations and vendors to build products and systems that effectively work together. This will ?raise the interoperability bar? as a result of having tools that just work. To achieve these lofty goals, careful consideration must be made to the constituencies that will be most affected by an OHT-influenced world. This document outlines a vision of OHT?s impact to these stakeholders. It does not explain the OHT process itself or how the OHT community operates. Instead, we place emphasis on the impact of that process within the health industry. The catchphrase ?code is king? underpins this document, meaning that the manifestation of any open source community lies in the products and technology it produces. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/206 IS - November 2008 U1 - Open Health Tools Skip McGaughey is Executive Director of Open Health Tools. Open Heath Tools is a collaborative open source effort between national health agencies, major healthcare providers, researchers, academics, international standards bodies and companies from Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom and Europe. Its goal is to develop common healthcare IT products and services and provide software tools and components that accelerate the implementation of electronic health information interoperability. Skip was co-founder of Eclipse, a multi-language, multi-vendor open source platform for tool integration. There are over 800,000 organizations and four million developers using Eclipse. Eclipse pioneered the linkage between building open source software and enabling successful and profitable ecosystems to deliver technology to customers. U2 - EDS Ken Rubin is a senior healthcare architect with a leading systems integrator. His focus is informatics and electronic health records interoperability. He has supported the [US] Veterans Health Administration and the [UK] National Programme for IT. Mr. Rubin chairs committees for the OMG, HL7, Open Health Tools, and the Healthcare Services Specification Project (HSSP), and has been involved in healthcare for over a decade. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Innovation 2.0 JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Michael Grove AB - The objective of this article is to argue for a new model that guides the efforts of multiple stakeholders to solve a problem. The new model is referred to as Open Innovation 2.0 Its main benefit is to gain competitive advantage through effective spending combined with enterprise to enterprise collaboration instead of traditional cost reduction. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/216 IS - December 2008 U1 - Open IT Michael Grove is the CEO and Founder of CollabWorks. CollabWorks fosters enterprise to enterprise collaboration, thereby collapsing the processes required to solve a problem. He is an author and blogger on topics ranging from CollabsourcingTM to open innovation, open source, and IT 2.0. He was formerly the Founder and CEO of Open Country, a leader of remote systems management for Linux and Windows, where he developed global market penetration including India and China. Prior to Open Country, he founded and is still Chairman of Introplus, a community profile matching engine company. Prior to Introplus, he was the CEO and Chairman of the Board of MicroModule Systems, a Santa Clara company that grew from zero to $46M in revenue in its first five years. He has been an Executive Fellow at Santa Clara University, advising many young companies. His background includes merger and acquisitions activity as Managing Partner of the Pathway Group and Director of New Commercial Programs at Lockheed. He holds a Masters degree from UCLA and two Bachelor degrees from California Polytechnic University. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source and Open Standards: Working Together for Effective Software Development and Distribution JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jon Siegel A1 - Richard Mark Soley AB - Many open source projects implement open standards. We interviewed five developers who implemented different open standards in open source projects to find out how much interplay there was between implementors and standards developers and how important this communication was as they programmed the details of the specifications. Our somewhat unexpected finding was that developers preferred to work from the printed specification, separate from the standards source. When asked for a reason, most reported that resource constraints prevented them from writing code and specifications at the same time; another factor was the satisfaction that comes from working independently. Most of the developers we spoke to were more than halfway through their development before they even considered reporting specification problems to the source organization. Although this speaks well for the overall quality of computer industry specifications, it also means that feedback from open source developers is not getting back to the specification's authors. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/207 IS - November 2008 U1 - OMG Dr. Jon Siegel is Vice President of Technology Transfer for the Object Management Group. He holds a doctoral degree in Theoretical Physical Chemistry from Boston University. U2 - OMG Dr. Richard Mark Soley is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Object Management Group. Dr. Soley holds the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source e-Procurement Software JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Dave Stephens AB - While every business needs to track the purchase of goods and services, many small and midsize businesses have been discouraged from using centralized software solutions due to high up-front licensing fees, expensive implementations, and the level of organizational training necessary to get the full value out of an enterprise-class procurement solution. This article provides an overview of the benefits provided by e-procurement solutions, then introduces the first open source e-procurement software and the business model for the company behind the open source project. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/129 IS - March 2008 U1 - Coupa Dave Stephens is CEO and co-founder of Coupa. Prior to co-founding Coupa, he was VP of Oracle Procurement Applications. A strong advocate of open source in the enterprise, Dave introduced Oracle's first Apache and JServ-based application in 1998 and delivered Oracle's first multi-tenant SaaS in 2000. Dave holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source in Canada's Public Sector JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Glenn McKnight A1 - Evan Leibovitch AB - The story of the growth of open source use in Canada has been far more a matter of evolution than revolution, so quiet in its pace that its progress has been difficult to measure. This has posed many challenges to Canadian open source advocates in their efforts to ensure that their country does not lag behind the rest of the world in understanding the social and business benefits open source provides. Perhaps some of the leading soldiers in the trenches might be our civil servants who protect the public purse. In addition to managing and minimizing the costs of delivering necessary services, public sector projects should also advance the social good through the delicate balance of transparency and efficiency. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/130 IS - March 2008 U1 - Global Catalysts Glenn McKnight has worked extensively with Canadian and international private and public sector organizations to promote cost effective IT and non-IT projects. His work included Baygen Radio of South Africa, environmental technologies in China, and IT strategies in India. His certification experience includes developing apprenticeship programs, operating IT schools, and promoting the Linux Professional Institute as an international standard. U2 - Xunil Corporation Evan Leibovitch is Senior Analyst of Xunil Corporation of Toronto. He is a founding director of the Canadian Association for Open Source and co-founder of the Linux Professional Institute. Evan is currently involved in projects involving open standards, innovative web services, and eliminating obstacles to use of open source. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source Interoperability: It's More than Technology JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Dominic Sartorio AB - The Open Solutions Alliance is a consortium of leading commercial open source vendors, integrators and end users dedicated to the growth of open source based solutions in the enterprise. We believe Linux and other infrastructure software, such as Apache, has become mainstream, and packaged solutions represent the next great growth opportunity. However some unique challenges can temper that opportunity. These challenges include getting the word out about the maturity and enterprise-readiness of those solutions, ensuring interoperability both with each other and with other proprietary and legacy solutions, and ensuring healthy collaboration between vendors and their respective customer and developer communities. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/112 IS - January 2008 U1 - Open Solutions Alliance Dominic Sartorio is president of the Open Solutions Alliance, and is employed as Senior Director of Product Management at SpikeSource, Inc. Dominic has over 15 years of experience in enterprise software including open source, in roles ranging from engineering to technical sales to product management. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Is Open Source Right for your Library? JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Carl Grant AB - We all know that feeling in our gut, that moment when it?s time to sign the order for a new software program for your library. It's accompanied by a host of nagging questions: "Is it the right decision?" "Have we overlooked anything?" "Will this work?" "Have we considered all our options?" The decision to acquire or upgrade a library automation package is never an easy one and every director, when faced with this decision, wants to choose the best package at the best value that most fully meets the needs of users. Today, that decision is complicated by a new option, that of open source. This article will examine when and why open source software (OSS) might be appropriate for your library. It also discusses why so many libraries are moving towards OSS and some of the disadvantages that you should be aware of should you decide to move in that direction. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/177 IS - August 2008 U1 - CARE Affiliates Carl Grant is a librarian who has worked in libraries, or companies automating libraries, for many years. Recently he founded CARE Affiliates, a company specializing in open source solutions for libraries. Mr. Grant has a demonstrated commitment to libraries, librarianship, and industry standards having served on the Board of the National Information Standards library (NISO) as a Board Member, Treasurer, and Chair. He is also a member of ALA, LITA, ACRL and ERT. Library Journal has previously recognized him as an ?Industry Notable?. Mr. Grant holds a Master's in Information and Library Science from the University of Missouri at Columbia. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source, Social Innovation and a New Economy of Engagement JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Stephen Huddart AB - Open source technologies and social innovation have emerged at a time when it is critical to adopt inclusive, creative, multi-disciplinary approaches to solving complex social and environmental problems. This article examines the relationship between open source, social innovation and engagement. It reviews four areas where their interplay has afforded organizations working in the (mainly Canadian) social sector with new tools and approaches to managing change. These tools include: i) collaboration and learning platforms; ii) social networking programs; iii) resource allocation websites; and iv) advocacy tools. An examination of two organizations leading social change in Canada suggests that to address society's larger problems, social innovators must also make use of economic incentives, facilitated or hosted conversations, and partnerships. Finally, two areas where innovation is urgently needed are identified as sustainability education and the means by which we participate in democratic processes and government decision-making. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/184 IS - September 2008 U1 - J. W. McConnell Family Foundation Stephen Huddart is the Vice President of The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation in Montreal and the Director of SiG (Social Innovation Generation) @ McConnell. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source Software for Corporate IT JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Bruno von Rotz AB - Of all the choices available when selecting open source software (OSS), which ones are likely to meet business and technology requirements? What tools, if any, exist to help companies assess the enterprise readiness of a proposed open source solution? This article introduces the Enterprise Open Source (EOS) Directory, a resource which was designed to help corporations accustomed to evaluating commercial closed source software find enterprise-ready open source solutions. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/147 IS - May 2008 U1 - Optaros Bruno von Rotz is the country manager for Switzerland at Optaros. He has more than 20 years of IT consulting and system integration experience. Prior to Optaros, he was the Consulting Practice Lead for Enterprise Integration Solutions in EMEA for Novell and Cambridge Technology Partners. Prior to Novell, he worked for McKinsey and Company, where he focused on IT strategy and architecture. Bruno graduated from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich with specialization in Information Systems. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source Software Foundations JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Zhensheng Xie AB - Communities that develop open source software (OSS) are virtual entities on the Internet, not legal entities. Some open source communities establish open source software foundations (OSSF) in order to protect their intellectual property and carry out contractual arrangements. As legal entities, OSSF help communities attain their long-term goals, hold community assets, provide resources to communities, and balance interests amongst different stakeholders. When OSS started to draw more business interests, commercial companies became involved with open source communities. The emergence of OSSF provides a good platform and opportunities for companies to exert their influence in a more official way. This article summarizes our recent research regarding the relationships between company involvement, governance, revenue, and OSSF. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/194 IS - October 2008 U1 - EA Mobile Zhensheng Xie is a software developer at EA Mobile in Montreal. He worked in the telecommunication industry for six years in China, with experience in software development, system design, and product management. He received his master's degree in the Technology Innovation Management program of Carleton University in 2008. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source Telecom JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jim Van Meggelen AB - Open source telecom platforms have matured to the point where they are often functionally superior to more traditional products. A case in point is asterisk, an open source PBX (private branch exchange) and telephony engine, which was recently named "best IP PBX" in InfoWorld's 2008 Technology of the Year Awards. While industry recognition can be a compelling argument for adoption, it is still difficult to stake one's reputation on the implementation of any software in a mission-critical solution without having first built a solid foundation on which to do so. With the right approach, you can deliver a superior open source solution to your telecom problems, at far less cost than using proprietary offerings. Implementing an open source telecom system is similar to any development project: there are steps you can take to lower risk and ensure a successful result. This article provides a practical approach for technical implementors to build a track-record of success that will help win approval for more challenging business initiatives. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/135 IS - April 2008 U1 - Core Telecom Innovations Jim Van Meggelen is President and CTO of Core Telecom Innovations, a Canadian-based provider of open-source telephony solutions. He has over fifteen years of enterprise telecom experience, for such companies as Nortel, Williams and Telus, and has extensive knowledge of both legacy and VoIP equipment. He is one of the principal contributors to the Asterisk Documentation Project, and is co-author of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source Vulnerability Database Project JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jake Kouns AB - This article introduces the Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) project which manages a global collection of computer security vulnerabilities, available for free use by the information security community. This collection contains information on known security weaknesses in operating systems, software products, protocols, hardware devices, and other infrastructure elements of information technology. The OSVDB project is intended to be the centralized global open source vulnerability collection on the Internet. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/155 IS - June 2008 U1 - Open Security Foundation Jake Kouns is the co-founder and President of the Open Security Foundation which oversees the operations of the Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB). Kouns' primary focus is to provide management oversight and define the strategic direction of the project. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Computer Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Information Security from James Madison University. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Sourcing Social Change: Inside the Constellation Model JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tonya Surman A1 - Mark Surman AB - The constellation model was developed by and for the Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment. The model offers an innovative approach to organizing collaborative efforts in the social mission sector and shares various elements of the open source model. It emphasizes self-organizing and concrete action within a network of partner organizations working on a common issue. Constellations are self-organizing action teams that operate within the broader strategic vision of a partnership. These constellations are outwardly focused, placing their attention on creating value for those in the external environment rather than on the partnership itself. While serious effort is invested into core partnership governance and management, most of the energy is devoted to the decision making, resources and collaborative effort required to create social value. The constellations drive and define the partnership. The constellation model emerged from a deep understanding of the power of networks and peer production. Leadership rotates fluidly amongst partners, with each partner having the freedom to head up a constellation and to participate in constellations that carry out activities that are of more peripheral interest. The Internet provided the platform, the partner network enabled the expertise to align itself, and the goal of reducing chemical exposure in children kept the energy flowing. Building on seven years of experience, this article provides an overview of the constellation model, discusses the results from the CPCHE, and identifies similarities and differences between the constellation and open source models. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/183 IS - September 2008 U1 - Centre for Social Innovation Tonya Surman is the founding Executive Director of the Centre for Social Innovation. She was the co-creator of the constellation model for CPCHE as its founding partnership director. Her work at the Centre is focused on catalyzing collaboration and entrepreneurship for social innovation. Previously she has run a social enterprise offering e-mail to activists and an edgy online news hub for Canadian progressives. U2 - Mozilla Foundation Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark has just become the Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation. Previously he was an open philanthropy fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation in Cape Town. He serves as senior partnership advisor to telecentre.org, a $27 million program that invests in grassroots computing networks around the world. When he has time, Mark likes to write and convene conversations about all things 'open' in his hometown of Toronto. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Standards vs. Open Source: a Case of the OpenAccess Standard JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Stoyan Tanev A1 - Amy Xu A1 - Jim Wilmore AB - In this article we provide some insights into the relationship between non-code based open assets, open development processes, and open standards. The insights are based on a case study of the OpenAccess Project of the Silicon Integration Initiative. The unique relationship between the OA standard's openness, evolution and adoption is an example of how open processes could be used to enable design tool interoperability, innovation, and cooperation. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/115 IS - January 2008 U1 - University of Southern Denmark Dr. Stoyan Tanev has a M.Sc. from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria and a Ph.D. jointly from the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, and University of Sofia in Physics, as well as a M.Eng. in Telecommunications Technology Management from Carleton University, Ottawa. In July 2006, Dr. Tanev joined the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University. His main teaching and research activities are associated with the Technology Innovation Management Program and include the application of open source innovation principles in new and emerging technology domains as well as the relationship between competitive intelligence, technology marketing, and innovation. U2 - Carleton University Amy Xu has a Bachelor in Computer Science and has just completed the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University. Her M. Eng thesis work was dedicated to the study of the OpenAccess standard development processes. U3 - Intel Jim Wilmore has been working in the IC CAD industry for over 30 years, first as a graduate student with Sandia Corporation, then for over 20 years at Hewlett-Packard, and most recently at Intel as Intel's Program Manager for EDA Industry Initiatives. Jim's work in IC CAD has been in many roles: as an application/tool/engine developer, as a tool customizer, as a CAD integrator, as a CAD System Architect, and finally as an Infrastructure architect and developer primarily focused in database and design management. He has worked on EDA industry standards for most of his EDA career. He has participated in OpenAccess from the outset and is now the Co-Chief Architect of the OAC's ChangeTeam. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The OpenTTT Approach JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Carlo Daffara AB - There is no shortage of data and results that demonstrate that open source software, when adopted with appropriate best practices, can significantly lower costs and provide quality IT (information technology) solutions, especially for small and medium enterprises. For example, the Consortium for Open Source Software in Public Administration project demonstrated that by using best practices for OSS procurement, not only was software acquisition cheaper, but the evaluation of tangible and intangible costs over 5 years demonstrated a cost reduction ranging from 20% to 60%. The EU study on the impact of OSS indicates that OSS can reduce software research and development costs by 36%, while the INES project found that companies adopting OSS increased profits and reduced time to market and development costs in 80% of the trials. If OSS is so advantageous, why is so little use of it perceived in the marketplace, especially among SMEs? We present the preliminary results of an European project called OpenTTT to improve the adoption rate and study the effectiveness of best practices in OSS adoption within small and medium enterprises. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/128 IS - March 2008 U1 - Conecta Carlo Daffara is head of research at Conecta, an open source consulting company. He is the Italian member of the EuropeanWorking group on libre software, chairs several other working groups like the open source middleware group of the IEEE technical committee on scalable computing and the Internet Society working group on public software, and contributed to the article presented by ISOC to Unesco on global trends for universal access to information resources. His current research activity is centered on the sustainability of OSS-based business models. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - OSS Spending Trends in Education JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Justin Davidson AB - Open source software (OSS) is becoming more prominent within the education market as more educational institutions turn towards open source as a solution that meets their needs. However, open source is not appropriate for all, and institutions should be cautious about implementing OSS. When adopting open source, institutions should ensure it is a strategic decision and not just a philosophical one. At Datamonitor, a provider of online data, analytic and forecasting platforms for key vertical sectors, we believe that the role of OSS will become increasingly important in education. The solutions available are becoming more sophisticated and stable. Currently, 56% of education institutions are using OSS and open source is clearly making headway into the education market. Furthermore, there are a number of varying factors driving institutions towards OSS and not all institutions are implementing OSS for the same reason. OSS offers an alternative method through which an institution can implement a technological solution, along with it's own variety of benefits and pitfalls. However, the increased popularity of OSS will not prevent proprietary software solutions from having an important role to play in education. Instead, OSS and proprietary solutions are going to become even more entwined together and the line between open source and proprietary solutions will blur. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/173 IS - August 2008 U1 - Datamonitor Justin Davidson is an Associate Analyst at Datamonitor writing about Education Technology. He writes on issues across the globe and looks at how technology companies can make the most of opportunities within the Education Market, whilst also bringing value to their clients. Datamonitor plc is a premium business information company specializing in industry analysis that helps its clients, 5000 of the world?s leading companies, to address complex strategic issues. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Ontario Research Commercialization Program JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2007 A1 - Brad DeFoe A1 - Dmitri Prokopiev AB - Brad DeFoe and Dmitri Prokopiev describe the Ontario Research Commercialization Program. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/96 IS - July 2007 U1 - MRI Brad DeFoe is the Manager of the Commercialization Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. U2 - MRI Dmitri Prokopiev is a Senior Policy Advisor of the Commercialization Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Educational Resources JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2007 A1 - Monica Mora AB - This article first introduces open content and open educational resources (OER), then compares OER and open source software (OSS), and finally discusses issues of OER project sustainability. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/77 IS - September 2007 U1 - CIDETYS Monica Mora received a Master's degree in Technology and Innovation Management from Carleton University. She has worked for the Technological University of Panama in different positions, including assistant professor and assistant of the President of this university. She is currently part of the technical committee of CIDETYS which was created to advise the Board of Directors and plan the first activities of the programme. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Hardware JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2007 A1 - Patrick McNamara AB - I have been involved in a number of debates on what exactly constitutes open hardware. While the definition is a bit harder to pin down than that of open source software, I believe hardware can be loosely placed into four categories of openness. They are, in order of least to most open: Closed, Open Interface, Open Design, and Open Implementation. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/76 IS - September 2007 U1 - Open Hardware Foundation Patrick McNamara, President of the OHF, is a Senior IT System Architect for Texas Instruments specializing in configuration management tools and systems. Prior to joining TI, Patrick held positions as senior CM Admin at Nortel and Sabre, as well as software development positions at Sabre and Raytheon Systems. Patrick graduated with a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Arkansas in 1997. Patrick has a formal background in system level software and hardware development and has had a strong interest in programming and digital logic design as hobbies since childhood. As a member of the Open Graphics Project, Patrick has provided input on the legacy VGA controller design as well as significant contributions to the video controller block. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source as Community JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nelson Ko AB - What does it really mean to participate in an open source software community? If a company's open source strategy is limited to acting as end user of open source software, is there a business need to understand the nature of open source communities? Should it be the goal of all businesses to become an active participant in open source communities, or become recognized as a significant contributor? Business users of open source software can broadly be divided into those who use open source software as end-users, and those who incorporate underlying open source technology into their products and services. This article will first address both these groups with the important facets of understanding and evaluating community in the selection of open source software, and then elaborate on the role of active participation in open source communities to enhance the value that can be obtained from the use of open source. It is based upon lessons I've learned from becoming progressively involved in a particular open source software community, Tikiwiki, and comparisons with other open source communities which I've made to identify commonalities and differences. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/78 IS - September 2007 U1 - Citadel Rock Nelson Ko is the founder and CEO of Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc. (http://citadelrock.com), providing solutions for online collaboration using wikis, social networking and multimedia messaging. He is an active contributor to the Tikiwiki open source project. Nelson has held positions in Hewlett-Packard and Singapore Telecom, and architected solutions brought to market across the world for companies such as Trans World International Interactive and Telstra. He holds an M.A. Economics degree from the University of Toronto, and is currently working on a dissertation "Building intellectual and social capital in online knowledge communities" in the M.A.Sc. Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source Assets JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tony Bailetti A1 - Peter Hoddinott AB - The Open Source Definition or OSD defines the criteria to which the distribution terms of software must comply for it to be deemed to be open source software. The term open source, however, is used to label a broad assortment of phenomena that fall well outside the established OSD. In addition, there is ambiguity in what is meant to be covered by the terms source and open. We envisage a definition of open source that equally applies to software, hardware schematics, content, and processes, not just software. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/75 IS - September 2007 U1 - Carleton University Tony Bailetti holds a faculty appointment in both the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and the Eric Sprott School of Business at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Professor Bailetti is the Director of the Talent First Network. Until September 2007, he was the Director of the Technology Innovation Management program. He has taught for the Executive M.B.A. program offered by Queen's University in Ottawa since 1996. U2 - Talent First Network Peter Hoddinott has over 25 years of experience in the Information and Communications industry. Peter has a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Computer Science, and recently completed the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton. He is currently employed by Carleton where he works full time on advancing the objectives of the Talent First Network. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source Licensing in the Enterprise JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2007 A1 - Stormy Peters AB - Studies show that most open source projects are licensed under the General Public License (GPL) and it is estimated that over 75% of open source projects are licensed under either the GPL or the LGPL (Lesser GPL). Yet, it has been my company's experience that the open source software used by our enterprise customers is primarily Apache licensed software. This article examines several factors which may shed some light on this disparity, including the issues raised by enterprise customers and the software product selection process used by OpenLogic (http://www.openlogic.com). PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/65 IS - October 2007 U1 - GNOME Foundation Stormy Peters is Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit which works to further the goals of the GNOME Project. She has established relationships with the open source community and industry sponsors. Stormy has been involved with the GNOME Foundation, having been one of the founding members of the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board in 2000. Her previous positions include that of Open Source Program Manager at Hewlett-Packard and Director of Community and partner programs at OpenLogic. Stormy graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source on Trial JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2007 A1 - Kamal Hassin AB - The way we develop software is continuously evolving: the everyday processes and practices used to produce software are becoming more efficient, and it is common for a team of developers to change several times over the life of a software project and for the components used to come from a variety of sources. However, the benefits of these changes cannot be fully appreciated unless correct policies and strategies are used to capture value from innovation. This is where the worlds of technology and Intellectual Property (IP) law collide and where license compliance is fundamental in protecting a company's IP and avoiding legal conflicts. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/66 IS - October 2007 U1 - Carleton University Kamal Hassin received a B.Eng. in electrical engineering from Carleton University in 2004. He is currently a Master's student in Carleton University's Technology Innovation Management program. His research interests include software intellectual property management, intellectual property law, open source licensing, and open educational resources. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source Telecommunication Companies JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2007 A1 - Peter Liu AB - Little is known about companies whose core business is selling telecommunications products that lever open source projects. Open source telecommunications (OST) companies operate in markets that are very different from typical software product markets. The telecommunications market is regulated, vertically integrated, and proprietary designs and special chips are widely used. For a telecommunications product to be useful, it must interact with both access network products and core network products. Due to specifications in Service Agreements Levels, penalties for failures of telecommunications products are very high. This article shares information that is not widely known, including a list of OST companies and the open source projects on which they depend, the size and diversity of venture capital investment in OST companies, the nature of the commercial product-open source software and company-project relationships, ways in which OST companies make money, benefits and risks of OST companies, and competition between OST companies. Analysis of this information provides insights into the ways in which companies can build business models around open source software. These findings will be of interest to entrepreneurs, top management teams of incumbent companies that sell telecommunications products, and those who care about Ontario's ability to compete globally. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/82 IS - August 2007 U1 - DragonWave Haijun (Peter) Liu is a software manager with DragonWave Inc., an innovative Ottawa company that designs, develops, markets and sells carrier-grade microwave equipment offering high capacity broadband wireless systems for network operators and service providers. Peter joined DragonWave the first year of its incorporation, and has experienced first hand how a startup secures venture capital investment, diversifies its product portfolio, carries out trials with industry giants, and lives through tough times. Peter received his Master degree in Computer Science, from the Institute of Computing Technology, China Academy of Science, a very prestigious graduate school which designed the very first Chinese computer. His research topic was Machine Translation, a branch of Artificial Intelligence. Prior to Peter's research, machine translation systems depended solely on syntax information. He designed and built a translation system which used semantic and context information to improve translation accuracy. Peter has published in Chinese computer journals. Peter is about to complete his master's degree in Carleton University's Technology Innovation Management program. ER -