TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Global Business Creation (June 2012) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Chris McPhee A1 - Marko Seppä A1 - Stoyan Tanev KW - global business creation KW - globalization KW - international business KW - startups KW - venture creation PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/561 IS - 6 U1 - Technology Innovation Management Review Chris McPhee is Editor-in-Chief of the Technology Innovation Management Review. Chris holds an MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University in Ottawa and BScH and MSc degrees in Biology from Queen's University in Kingston. He has over 15 years of management, design, and content-development experience in Canada and Scotland, primarily in the science, health, and education sectors. As an advisor and editor, he helps entrepreneurs, executives, and researchers develop and express their ideas. U2 - Global Enabler Marko Seppä is “serial co-creator” and knowledge investor specialized in growth venture creation. He was apprenticed as venture capitalist by Panostaja Group, in Finland in the late 1980s. Since 1991, he has led the co-creation of three enabler organizations: FVC, a pioneering venture capital firm for the emerging markets of Russia and the Baltic countries; eBRC, an ambitious e-business research center for a local pilot of eEurope; and GVL Finland, a global venture lab experiment for University Alliance Finland. He holds an MSc in Management from the University of Tampere and a PhD in Corporate Strategy from the University of Jyväskylä. He is currently engaged in the co-creation of Global Enabler: A community, platform and factory of enablers of global business creation for problems worth solving. U3 - University of Southern Denmark Stoyan Tanev is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Technology and Innovation and member of the Integrative Innovation Management (I2M) Research Unit at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, as well as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he was previously a faculty member in the Technology Innovation Management Program. He has an MSc and PhD in Physics (jointly by the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France), an MEng in Technology Management (Carleton University, Canada), and an MA (University of Sherbrooke, Canada). His main research interests are in the fields of technology innovation management and value co-creation in technology driven businesses. Dr. Tanev is also on the Review Board of the Technology Innovation Management Review. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - From Business Administration to Business Creation: The Case of the Kalevala Global Business Creation School JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Marko Seppä KW - business creation KW - business school KW - co-creation KW - entrepreneurship KW - knowledge investing KW - Open innovation KW - university AB - Are there any businesses left to administer? The question is of course rhetorical and aimed at underscoring how several societies are more severely in need of creators of new businesses than managers of established ones. And yet, nearly all universities only produce masters of business administration, at best. Apart from theoretical research about business creation, and the education of masters of such research, universities are generally not equipped to produce knowledge for business creation or to produce masters of business creation. This conceptual article calls for a new, complementary approach to research and education, around the theme of global business creation. Due to the limitations and restrictions related to the traditions and practices of the science of business administration, where the means justify the ends, a new exploratory field coined as the “Art of Business Creation,” where the end justifies the means, is being explored for some inspiration. For a concrete solution, the concept of a globally distributed, enterprise-centric, entrepreneurial-faculty-driven, open-innovation-based, and social-media-empowered university entity is depicted in this article. It is a new-generation private-public-partnership and “Living Lab 2.0” referred to as Kalevala Global Business Creation School. The conceptualization draws from observations and action research during the Global Venture Lab Finland experiment at the University of Jyväskylä from 2007 to 2011. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/562 IS - 6 U1 - Global Enabler Marko Seppä is “serial co-creator” and knowledge investor specialized in growth venture creation. He was apprenticed as venture capitalist by Panostaja Group, in Finland in the late 1980s. Since 1991, he has led the co-creation of three enabler organizations: FVC, a pioneering venture capital firm for the emerging markets of Russia and the Baltic countries; eBRC, an ambitious e-business research center for a local pilot of eEurope; and GVL Finland, a global venture lab experiment for University Alliance Finland. He holds an MSc in Management from the University of Tampere and a PhD in Corporate Strategy from the University of Jyväskylä. He is currently engaged in the co-creation of Global Enabler: A community, platform and factory of enablers of global business creation for problems worth solving. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Co-Creation (March 2011) JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2011 A1 - Chris McPhee A1 - Marko Seppä A1 - Stoyan Tanev AB - The editorial theme for this issue of the OSBR is Co-Creation. The articles invited for publication in this special issue of the OSBR were originally presented last September at EBRF 2010, in Nokia, Finland. EBRF - the research forum to understand business in the knowledge society - is the oldest international peer-reviewed business research conference organized annually in Finland. The first EBRF conference was organized in Tampere, Finland in 2001. The grand theme of the 10th anniversary EBRF conference was "Co-Creation as a Way Forward". For this issue of the OSBR, a preliminary subset of EBRF articles were selected by a specifically designed committee of scholars that was asked to nominate EBRF articles fitting the topic of the special issue and providing valuable insights to both scholars and practitioners. We invited the authors to create specialized versions of the papers that were previously published in the EBRF 2010 Conference Proceedings by focusing on the practical relevance of their research for an audience including not only scholars but also business and technology experts. After the submission of the OSBR versions, an additional peer review process was used to select seven articles offering diverse perspectives on co-creation. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/422 IS - March 2011 U1 - Open Source Business Resource Chris McPhee is in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University in Ottawa. Chris received his BScH and MSc degrees in Biology from Queen's University in Kingston, following which he worked in a variety of management, design, and content development roles on science education software projects in Canada and Scotland. U2 - University of Jyväskylä Marko Seppä is a "serial co-creator". In 1981, at age 16, he co-created an American football club in Finland, and in 1991, he co-created a pioneering VC firm focused on the emerging markets of Russia and the Baltic countries. In 2001, he co-created an ambitious e-business research centre for a pilot of the eEurope programme. He currently serves the University of Jyväskylä as Professor of Growth Venture Creation and works to co-create a global faculty partnership for problems worth solving. He is founding chair of Global Venture Lab Finland, a university consortium that is developing a "distributed business co-creation environment". He is also a co-founder of the Global Venture Lab Network, which is coordinated at UC Berkeley. U3 - University of Southern Denmark Stoyan Tanev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology and Innovation and member of the Integrative Innovation Management (I2M) Research Unit at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. I2M is a research group operating across the faculties of social sciences and engineering. Before joining the I2M unit at SDU in August 2009, Dr. Tanev was a Faculty member in the Technology Innovation Management Program of the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Stoyan Tanev has an MSc. and PhD. in Physics (1995, jointly by the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France), an MEng. in Technology Management (2005, Carleton University, Canada), and an MA. (2009, University of Sherbrooke, Canada). His main research interests are in the fields of technology innovation management and value co-creation in technology-driven businesses. Dr. Tanev teaches technology innovation, technology marketing, and technology management courses in the MSc. Engineering program "Product Development and Innovation" at the University of Southern Denmark. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Future of Co-Creation JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2011 A1 - Marko Seppä A1 - Stoyan Tanev AB - The objective of this article is to provide a brief summary of the key directions in value co-creation research that have emerged in the last 10 years. It points to several emerging streams in value co-creation research including: i) general management perspective; ii) new product development and innovation; iii) virtual customer environments; iv) service science and service-dominant logic (SDL) of marketing; and v) international markets and entrepreneurship, with a focus on the general management and innovation perspectives. In addition, the article points to another emerging new direction focusing on business co-creation. The development of business co-creation frameworks integrating the participatory role of both universities and vibrantly emerging business ecosystems represents a valuable alternative to traditional technology transfer and business administration approaches. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/423 IS - March 2011 U1 - University of Jyväskylä Marko Seppä is a "serial co-creator". In 1981, at age 16, he co-created an American football club in Finland, and in 1991, he co-created a pioneering VC firm focused on the emerging markets of Russia and the Baltic countries. In 2001, he co-created an ambitious e-business research centre for a pilot of the eEurope programme. He currently serves the University of Jyväskylä as Professor of Growth Venture Creation and works to co-create a global faculty partnership for problems worth solving. He is founding chair of Global Venture Lab Finland, a university consortium that is developing a "distributed business co-creation environment". He is also a co-founder of the Global Venture Lab Network, which is coordinated at UC Berkeley. U2 - University of Southern Denmark Stoyan Tanev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology and Innovation and member of the Integrative Innovation Management (I2M) Research Unit at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. I2M is a research group operating across the faculties of social sciences and engineering. Before joining the I2M unit at SDU in August 2009, Dr. Tanev was a Faculty member in the Technology Innovation Management Program of the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Stoyan Tanev has an MSc. and PhD. in Physics (1995, jointly by the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France), an MEng. in Technology Management (2005, Carleton University, Canada), and an MA. (2009, University of Sherbrooke, Canada). His main research interests are in the fields of technology innovation management and value co-creation in technology-driven businesses. Dr. Tanev teaches technology innovation, technology marketing, and technology management courses in the MSc. Engineering program "Product Development and Innovation" at the University of Southern Denmark. ER -