%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2020 %T Editorial: Insights (June 2020) %A Stoyan Tanev %A Gregory Sandstrom %K Bitcoin %K blockchain %K crowdfunding %K crypto assets %K cryptocurrencies %K developing countries. %K distributed ledger technology %K Employeedriven innovation %K entrepreneurial finance %K entrepreneurship %K Ethereum %K Financial industry %K FinTech %K ICOs %K IEO %K innovation %K intellectual property rights %K internationalization %K IT industry %K job autonomy %K mining industry %K moral hazard %K need for autonomy %K new company %K Porter's Five Forces framework %K regulation %K scaling company value %K scaling-up %K self-leadership %K signaling %K SME %K STO %K sustainability %K technological environment %K technology %K technology readiness %K token offering %K token sales %K tokenization %K value proposition %K value proposition alignment %K venture capital %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 10 %P 3-4 %8 06/2020 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1363 %N 6 %1 Technology Innovation Management Review Stoyan Tanev, PhD, MSc, MEng, MA, is Associate Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management associated with the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) Program, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Before re-joining Carleton University, Dr. Tanev was part of the Innovation and Design Engineering Section, Faculty of Engineering, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark. Dr. Tanev has a multidisciplinary background including MSc in Physics (Sofia University, Bulgaria), PhD in Physics (1995, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, co-awarded by Sofia University, Bulgaria), MEng in Technology Management (2005, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada), MA in Orthodox Theology (2009, University of Sherbrooke, Montreal Campus, QC, Canada) and PhD in Theology (2012, Sofia University, Bulgaria). Stoyan has published multiple articles in several research domains. His current research interests are in the fields of technology entrepreneurship and innovation management, design principles and growth modes of global technology start-ups, business analytics, topic modeling and text mining. He has also an interest in interdisciplinary issues on the interface of the natural and social sciences. %2 Technology Innovation Management Review Gregory Sandstrom is Managing Editor of the TIM Review. He is a former Associate Professor of Mass Media and Communications at the European Humanities University (2012-2017), and Affiliated Associate Professor at the Social Innovations Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University (2016-2017) in Vilnius, Lithuania. He completed a PhD from the Faculty of Sociology at St. Petersburg State University and the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, sector on Sociology of Science (2010). He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Science Council (2013-2015), for which he conducted research visits to the Copernican Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (Krakow), the University of Edinburgh's Extended Knowledge Project, Cambridge University's History and Philosophy of Science Department, and Virginia State University's Science and Technology Studies program, as well as previously at the Autonomous National University of Mexico's Institute for Applied Mathematics and Systems (2010-2011). He was affiliated with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, leading student and faculty language and communications workshops, most recently (2013, 2014, 2017) in Yangon, Myanmar. He is a promoter and builder of blockchain distributed ledger technology systems and digital extension services. %& 3 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1363 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2020 %T Examining the Relationship Between Cybersecurity and Scaling Value for New Companies %A Tony Bailetti %A Daniel Craigen %K cybersecurity %K scaling company value %K scaling initiatives %K topic model stability %X We explore the cybersecurity-scaling relationship in the context of scaling new company value rapidly. The relationship between the management of what a new company does to protect against the malicious or unauthorized use of electronic data, and the management of what a new company does to scale company value rapidly is important, but not well understood. We use a topic modelling technique to identify the eight topics that best describe a corpus comprised of 137 assertions about what new companies do to scale company value rapidly, manually examine the stability of the topics extracted from the dataset, and describe the relationship between 17 assertions about how to manage cybersecurity in new companies, and the six topics found to be stable. The six stable topics are labelled Fundraise, Enable, Position, Communicate, Innovate, and Complement. We find that of the 17 cybersecurity assertions, seven are related to Position, two to Innovate, one to Fundraise and, one to Complement. Six cybersecurity assertions were not found to be strongly related to any of the eight topics. This paper contributes to our understanding of cybersecurity in the context of a new company that scales its value rapidly, an application of topic modelling to perform small-scale data analysis, and a manual approach to examine the stability of the topics extracted by the topic modelling technique. We expect this paper to be relevant to new companies’ top management teams, members of the networks upon which new companies depend for to scale company value, accelerators and incubators, as well as academics teaching or carrying out research in entrepreneurship. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 10 %P 62-70 %8 02-2020 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1329 %N 2 %1 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 past 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. %2 Carleton University Mr. Craigen is the community and project manager with the Technology Innovation Management Program, Carleton University. Formerly, he was the Director of Carleton University’s Global Cybersecurity Resource (GCR) (https://www.cugcr.ca) and was the founding president of Global EPIC (https://www.globalepic.org). Mr. Craigen was a senior science advisor with the Government of Canada for 12-years and President of ORA Canada, a company that focused on high assurance technologies and distributed its technology to sites in 65-countries. Mr. Craigen was the Chair of two NATO research task groups (“Dual use of high assurance technologies” and “Validation, verification and certification of embedded systems.”) Mr. Craigen obtained a B. Sc (Honours Math) and an M. Sc from Carleton University. %& 62 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1329 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2020 %T Examining the Relationship Between Value Propositions and Scaling Value for New Companies %A Tony Bailetti %A Stoyan Tanev %K scaling company value %K scaling objectives %K topic modeling %K topic stability %K value proposition %X To scale company value rapidly, a new company needs to develop value propositions for diverse parties, customers, investors, partners, suppliers, employees, and other resource owners, as well as align these value propositions with its scaling objectives. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between value propositions for a diverse set of parties, and efforts from a new company to scale company value rapidly. We review the value proposition literature and then examine the relationships between 19 assertions about value propositions, as well as six stable topics that best describe the SERS corpus, which is comprised of 137 assertions about scaling companies early, rapidly, and securely. Conducting a topic model of eight topics led to six stable topics: Fundraise, Enable, Position, Communicate, Innovate, and Complement. We find that of the 19 assertions about value propositions, four are connected to Complement, four to Innovate, one to Position, one to Fundraise, and one to Communicate. A total of eight assertions about value propositions are not connected to any of the six stable topics. This paper contributes to our understanding of how a new company scales company value rapidly, adding an application of topic modelling to perform small-scale data analysis. The findings are expected to be relevant to entrepreneurs and new companies worldwide. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 10 %P 5-13 %8 02/2020 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1324 %N 2 %9 Journal %1 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 past 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. %2 Technology Innovation Management Review Stoyan Tanev, PhD, MSc, MEng, MA, is Associate Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management associated with the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) Program, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Before re-joining Carleton University, Dr. Tanev was part of the Innovation and Design Engineering Section, Faculty of Engineering, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark. Dr. Tanev has a multidisciplinary background including MSc in Physics (Sofia University, Bulgaria), PhD in Physics (1995, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, co-awarded by Sofia University, Bulgaria), MEng in Technology Management (2005, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada), MA in Orthodox Theology (2009, University of Sherbrooke, Montreal Campus, QC, Canada) and PhD in Theology (2012, Sofia University, Bulgaria). Dr. Stoyan Tanev has published multiple articles in several research domains. His current research interests are in the fields of technology entrepreneurship and innovation management, design principles and growth modes of global technology start-ups, business analytics, topic modeling and text mining. He has also an interest in interdisciplinary issues on the interface of the natural and social sciences. %& 5 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1324 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2020 %T What Makes Value Propositions Distinct and Valuable to New Companies Committed to Scale Rapidly? %A Tony Bailetti %A Stoyan Tanev %A Christian Keen %K new company %K scaling company value %K scaling-up %K value proposition %K value proposition alignment %X One of the most valuable resources a company owns is the "portfolio of value propositions" to its diverse external stakeholders, such as customers, investors, and resource owners. In this article, we fill a gap in the value proposition literature by identifying features that make the value propositions of new companies different from other resources, along with factors that make them valuable. A value proposition is conceived as being what enables and improves business transactions between a new company and external stakeholders. We reason that two features in particular make value propositions of new companies distinct: (1) business transactions between a new company and one or more external stakeholders, and (2) investments to create and improve a new company's value propositions that enable business transactions. We provide a definition of "value proposition" and postulate that a value proposition will benefit a new company when it: (1) strengthens the new company's capabilities to scale; (2) increases demand for the new company's products and services; and (3) increases the number, diversity, and rapidity of external investments in the new company's value proposition portfolio. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 10 %P 14-27 %8 06/2020 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1365 %N 6 %1 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 past 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. %2 Carleton University Stoyan Tanev, PhD, MSc, MEng, MA, is Associate Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management associated with the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) Program, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Before re-joining Carleton University, Dr. Tanev was part of the Innovation and Design Engineering Section, Faculty of Engineering, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark. Dr. Tanev has a multidisciplinary background including MSc in Physics (Sofia University, Bulgaria), PhD in Physics (1995, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, co-awarded by Sofia University, Bulgaria), MEng in Technology Management (2005, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada), MA in Orthodox Theology (2009, University of Sherbrooke, Montreal Campus, QC, Canada) and PhD in Theology (2012, Sofia University, Bulgaria). Stoyan has published multiple articles in several research domains. His current research interests are in the fields of technology entrepreneurship and innovation management, design principles and growth modes of global technology start-ups, business analytics, topic modeling and text mining. He has also an interest in interdisciplinary issues on the interface of the natural and social sciences. %3 Université Laval Christian Keen, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Département de Management, Université Laval, Canada. Christian has an extensive research and working experience in emerging and developed economies. His professional experience includes being a member of several the Board of Directors of private companies and NGOs. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in international entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and strategic management. His research areas of interest include international entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial capital and rapidly growing firms. Christian is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship Small Business and TIM Review. He has presented his research in several international conferences such as AIB, AOM, EIBA, and has also published papers in those areas. %& 14 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1365