%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2009 %T Value Co-creation as Part of an Integrative Vision of Innovation Management %A Stoyan Tanev %A Mette Knudsen %A Wolfgang Gerstlberger %X Value co-creation is an emerging concept in business, marketing and innovation management. Its growing interest points to the emergence of a new semantic wave in innovation research that requires the adoption of new terminology, frameworks and fields of research exploration. There is a number of existing research streams that provide a solid starting point in the discussion of different perspectives on co-creation. One key research aspect that needs to be further addressed is the potential benefits from the adoption of value co-creation practices and strategies. This article shares insights from an attempt to position the value co-creation paradigm within an integrative vision for innovation management research and practices. This positioning is a challenging task as the meaning of the terms "value co-creation" and "integrative" innovation management need to be more fully clarified. We attempt to identify an appropriate plane of conceptual integrity that could be used to describe the innovation management field within the context of its relation to value co-creation. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 12/2009 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/309 %N December 2009 %9 Articles %1 University of Southern Denmark Stoyan Tanev is Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Civil Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark. He is part of the Integrative Innovation Management Unit, a research group that operates across the faculties of social sciences and engineering. Stoyan had a similar position in the Technology Innovation Management Program in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University and he worked for several years as an optical designer in the Ottawa high tech industry. Stoyan has a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics, a M.Eng. in Technology Innovation Management, and a M.A. His main research interests are: design and development of value co-creation platforms, value co-creation business models, value co-creation platforms for user-driven innovation, and technological infrastructures enabling value co-creation oriented business processes. He is also interested in the philosophy of technology, business ethics, and general epistemological issues at the interface of philosophy of religion and physics. %2 University of Southern Denmark Mette Praest Knudsen is a Professor in Innovation Management at the Department of Marketing and Management (Faculty of Social Sciences), University of Southern Denmark. She is the research manager of the Integrative Innovation Management research unit. She holds a Ph.D. from Aalborg University on technological competencies of high- tech companies and a Master of Economics from Odense University. Her current research topics include open innovation and inter-organisational relationships for New Product Development, knowledge sharing practices, environmental new product development and outsourcing of manufacturing and research and development activities. %3 University of Southern Denmark Wolfgang Gerstlberger is an Associate Professor at the Faculty for Social Sciences (Department of Marketing and Management) at the University of Southern Denmark, and a member of the Integrative Innovation Management research unit. He holds a Masters degree from Kassel University in Social Sciences and Public Economics. He received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences and his habilitation in Management Science. After a research stay at the University of California, Berkeley, he received an endowed chair for Innovation Management and Small Business Research at the International Graduate School Zittau. Wolfgang's current research interests cover innovation systems at the regional and firm level, environmental new product development, participation of employees in innovation practices and innovation networks.