TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Insights (December 2020) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Stoyan Tanev A1 - Gregory Sandstrom KW - 5G technology; Bitcoin KW - blockchain KW - business model KW - business model innovation KW - crypto assets KW - cryptocurrencies KW - Diem KW - Diem Association KW - digital currency KW - distributed ledger technology KW - Facebook KW - fiat currencies KW - financial inclusion KW - Financial industry KW - front-end KW - ideation KW - innovation KW - Libra KW - local currencies KW - Management Model KW - not-for-profit KW - research center KW - strategic foresight KW - strategy KW - technology firms; project portfolio management KW - tokenization; product innovativeness KW - visioning PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1410 IS - 12 U1 - 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. U2 - 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. His PhD is from St. Petersburg State University and the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He interned at the S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, St. Petersburg, 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 worked for the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, leading student and faculty language and communications workshops, most recently (2013, 2014, 2017) in Yangon, Myanmar. His current research interests are distributed ledger technology (blockchain) systems and digital extension services. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Project Portfolio Management in the Front-End of Innovation of Research Centers: a Literature Review JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rui Nuno Castro A1 - João José Pinto Ferreira KW - front-end KW - ideation KW - innovation KW - not-for-profit KW - Project Portfolio Management KW - research center AB - The beginning of an innovation process, also known as “front-end of innovation” (FEI), counts as an essential contributor to the successful development of new products and for their market appeal. Nevertheless, while helpful procedures and techniques for developing new products are well-known and widely applied, FEI is still an understudied area, and models for managing it are not yet commonly used in technology-oriented companies. FEI, also known as "fuzzy front end", can even be "fuzzier" in not-for-profit research centers. That is because the focus of these centers is advancing of scientific knowledge, rather than commercializing the results of those activities. This study summarizes the insights from a literature review on the topic of “project portfolio management” (PPM) in relation to innovation and, more specifically, with FEI and its components of ideation, innovation management, innovation strategy, foresight, and incremental or radical innovation. The authors selected and reviewed content from 170 papers published in SCOPUS prior to February 2019. The discussion uses a theoretical framework called "Front-End of Innovation Integrative Ontology (FEI2O)" to assist in framing the discussion. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1409 IS - 12 U1 - Fraunhofer Portugal Rui Nuno Castro holds a degree in Electrical and Computers Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) since 1996, and a M.Sc. in Digital Communication Systems and Technology from Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, in 1999. In 1998-1999 he was a researcher at Ericsson Radio Systems AB in Sweden, where he developed his Master Thesis named “Dynamic Resource Management for Wavelength Division Multiplexing Networks”. Between 2000 and 2004, as a researcher at INESC Porto, he actively participated in several projects in the IST framework. Between 2005 and 2010, he was co-founder and Chief Operations Officer at Nonius Software, a Portuguese SME. In 2010, he joined Fraunhofer Portugal as a researcher. He is, since October 2011, R&D Group Leader at Fraunhofer Portugal. His current research interests are in the field of Innovation and Technology Management. U2 - University of Porto João José Pinto Ferreira holds a Licenciatura in Electrical Engineering and Computers at Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) in 1987; MSc Electrical Engineering and Computers at FEUP in 1991; Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computers at FEUP in 1995; Habilitation in Industrial Engineering and Management in April 2011. He has held several positions at the FEUP: 1987-1995: Assistant Lecturer; 1995-2003: Assistant Professor; 2003-today: Associate Professor. At FEUP (1997-2000) also he was Member of the Executive Board of the Electrical Engineering Department and is, since 2004, the Director of the Master Program of Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship. Has supervised MSc and Ph.D. students in the areas of Electrical Engineering and Computers, Informatics Engineering and Industrial Engineering and Management. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the Journal of Innovation Management (http://open-jim.org). His research focuses on the Front-End of Innovation and on its synergies with the early stages of the entrepreneurial activity. ER -