<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dru Lavigne</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stoyan Tanev</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Editorial: Value Co-Creation (November 2009)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Open Source Business Resource</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11/2009</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://timreview.ca/article/299</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talent First Network</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ottawa</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The relationship between companies that produce and distribute goods and the consumers who purchase and use those goods is often portrayed as &quot;us vs. them&quot;. While technology provides the tools needed for communication and collaboration, company-consumer collaboration is often met with skepticism. Is it possible for companies and the users of their products to form mutually beneficial relationships that create value? The concept of value co-creation attempts to answer that question and it is the editorial theme of the November and December issues of the OSBR.

Co-creation: New pathways to value reminds us that &quot;It is...the quality of the relationship that companies form with and facilitate among their customers, which will determine how knowledge is created, shared and transferred&quot;. The authors in this issue introduce us to who is involved in these relationships, their motivations, and techniques.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">November 2009</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Editorial</style></work-type><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talent First Network
Dru Lavigne is a technical writer and IT consultant who has been active with open source communities since the mid-1990s. She writes regularly for BSD Magazine and is the author of the books BSD Hacks, The Best of FreeBSD Basics, and the upcoming Definitive Guide to PC-BSD.</style></custom1><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">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.</style></custom2></record></records></xml>