%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 An Empirical Study into the Individual-Level Antecedents to Employee-Driven Innovation %A Chukwuemeka K. Echebiri %K employee-driven innovation %K job autonomy %K need for autonomy %K self-leadership %X The purpose of this paper is to link individual-level factors (such as need for autonomy, self-leadership, and perceived job autonomy) to employee-driven innovation with self-leadership as an indirect link. The study is based on survey data of 315 employees in the banking sector, collected in two waves where the variables were separated in time. The hypothesized model was analysed using a structural equation model on Stata. First, it was found that the need for autonomy had an indirect association with employee-driven innovation through self-leadership. Second, the findings show that self-leadership had a positive relationship with employee-driven innovation. Finally, there was no support found for the moderating role of perceived job autonomy between self-leadership and employee-driven innovation. The findings in this paper are important because they identify individual-level antecedents of employee-driven innovation. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 6 %P 42-52 %8 06/2020 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1367 %N 6 %1 Inland School of Business and Social Sciences Chukwuemeka K. Echebiri is a research fellow at Inland School of Business and Social Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences in Elverum. His doctoral thesis focuses on employee-driven innovation from an employee empowerment perspective. He holds an MSc in Business from Nord University School of Business, Norway. His work experience cuts across banking, insurance, and academics. %& 42 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1367