TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Insights (October 2020) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Gregory Sandstrom KW - Advanced Analytics KW - AI maturity. Data science KW - AI value chain KW - AI-driven platform innovation KW - Artificial Intelligence (AI) KW - big data KW - business decision-making KW - business model components KW - business models KW - content analysis KW - data-dominant logic KW - dominant logic KW - empirical study KW - enterprise platform KW - industries KW - online communication KW - online data collection KW - organizational and managerial requirements KW - principal component analysis KW - R&D KW - research and development KW - secondary data. Sustainability KW - SMEs. Disruptive innovation KW - sustainable innovation PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1396 IS - 10 U1 - 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. His current research interests are distributed ledger technology (blockchain) systems and digital extension services. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Rapid Learning and Knowledge-Gap Closure During the Conceptual Design Phase – Rapid R&D JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Charles J. Camarda A1 - Stephen J. Scotti A1 - Iivari Kunttu A1 - Antti Perttula KW - knowledge gaps KW - R&D KW - Rapid product development KW - set-based design AB - New product development strategies, such as set-based concurrent engineering design (SBCED) or set-based design (SBD), have demonstrated improved ways to address knowledge gaps in alternate design concepts prior to the decision to select a single concept for development. Most of the corpus in this field addresses engineering product development that relies on systems and subsystems with years of prior experience in testing, development, and operation. These often have known or existing solutions, and use state-of-the-art (SOA), or near SOA technology. In addition, most papers do not dive into the details of how knowledge was attained to rapidly close critical knowledge gaps. This paper attempts to explain how a research-based method to construct knowledge can accelerate the knowledge capture critical for developing solutions to extremely challenging problems. This rapid R&D methodology enables a rapid acquisition of critical knowledge to understand potential failure modes of concepts in a set-based way. Thus, it enables intelligent decisions for the selection of the final concept as well as the continuous maturation of parallel concepts. The continuous, parallel maturation of multiple concepts enables effective off-ramps in the design process as requirements and new knowledge arise in the course of the development program, without incurring excessive rework, cost growth, and schedule creep. The goal of this paper is to describe a method that accelerates the generation of critical knowledge early in the conceptual design phase, as a way to close knowledge gaps quickly, and thus enable intelligent design decisions and concept selections early in the product development cycle. The methodological descriptions are illustrated with case examples from NASA technology development. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1332 IS - 3 U1 - NASA Dr. Charles Camarda received his undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1974. Upon graduation, he began work at NASA’s Langley Research Center (LaRC), received his M.S. from GW in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from VPI in 1990. He was Head of the Thermal Structures Branch at LaRC and led the structures and materials efforts of two programs: The National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) and the Single-Stage-to Orbit Program. He was selected to be an Astronaut in 1996 and flew on the return-to-flight mission of Space Shuttle following the Columbia Accident, STS-114, in 2005. He was selected Director of Engineering at JSC in December 2005 and was the Sr. Advisor for Innovation and Engineering Development at NASA’s Langley Research Center. He is currently the Founder and CEO of the Epic Education Foundation, a 501 (c)3 nonprofit seeking to transform education and plug the leaky science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline. U2 - NASA Dr. Stephen Scotti is a Distinguished Research Associate in the Research Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center. He joined NASA in 1986 and has held positions as a Senior Technologist, as Chief Engineer for Structures and Materials in the Research Directorate, as well as serving as a researcher, as the manager of research branches, as an engineering office chief, and as a program chief engineer. Dr. Scotti made numerous contributions to various NASA programs, and led several advanced design studies - receiving a NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal for the Orion spacecraft Alternate Launch Abort System study. Dr. Scotti was also a contributor to the Columbia Accident Investigation in the area of thermal-structural failure modes, and he played a significant role in developing concepts for on-orbit repair of the Space Shuttle leading edge. Dr. Scotti's research specialties include multidisciplinary design, probabilistic design, thermal-structures, heat transfer and structural mechanics which he primarily applied to the study of supersonic and hypersonic aircraft, and to space access vehicles. He earned a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the George Washington University in 1995. U3 - Häme University of Applied Sciences Dr Iivari Kunttu holds a PhD in Information Technology from the Tampere University of Technology (TUT, 2005), and a PhD in Economics (Management) from the University of Vaasa, Finland (2017). Currently he acts as Principal Research Scientist in Häme University of Applied Sciences. From 2012 to 2017, he held an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Management at the University of Vaasa. He has also held several R&D Manager and R&D Process Development specialist positions in the Nokia Corporation, and Project Manager positions in TUT. His current research interests include R&D and innovation management, data analysis, business development, as well as digital services. His works have been published in such international journals as Pattern Recognition Letters, Machine Vision Applications, Optical Engineering, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, Annals of Long-term Care, Technovation, Industry and Innovation, and Technology Innovation Management Review. U4 - Tampere University of Applied Sciences Dr. Antti Perttula is since 2014 a Principal Lecturer of Systems Engineering and Head of Aircraft Engineering Education at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Before academia Perttula held several senior management positions in R&D organization in industry and in military and civil aviation. His main duties included quality and technology management, process development and supplier partnership. Currently, Perttula’s research interest areas cover rapid product development and drone technology including autonomous flying. He has worked in several countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Sustainability-related Communication Patterns on the Websites of European Top R&D Spenders JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Giacomo Liotta A1 - Stoyan Tanev A1 - Andrea Gorra A1 - Alicja Izabela Pospieszala KW - business decision-making KW - online communication KW - online data collection KW - principal component analysis KW - R&D KW - research and development KW - sustainability KW - sustainable innovation AB - Many firms struggle to incorporate "sustainability" into their operations in a way that can capture economic value and deliver social and environmental benefits. This article aims to answer two questions in this regard: (i) How do companies articulate the sustainability aspects of their businesses online, and (ii) In what ways does the degree of articulation of specific sustainability aspects relate to company performance metrics, such as sales and R&D expenditure. The research method measures the occurrences of a set of sustainability-related keywords on the websites of a sample of 387 firms that were ranked as top R&D spenders in Europe for 2013. We processed the keyword occurrences in a simplified version of latent semantic analysis based on the application of principal component analysis to identify the specific combinations of words used by companies to communicate sustainability issues on their websites. The results show that "sustainable innovation" and "sustainable operations" based on partnerships and cooperation represent a dominant part of companies' online communication strategies. One of the findings suggests a strong relationship between the communication of sustainable innovation aspects and sales, which offers a promising message to companies looking for evidence about the potential impact of their commitment to sustainable operations and innovation. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1395 IS - 10 U1 - Aalborg University Giacomo Liotta was an Associate Professor in the Center for Industrial Production at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before that he was part of the Institute of Technology and Innovation at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. His research interests focused on sustainability and innovation in supply-chain networks, including the simulation of networked logistics-production systems as well as product-lifecycle management. Dr. Liotta had a PhD in Economics and Management Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. He also held an MBA, MSc, and BSc degrees in Management and Industrial Engineering from this same university. His teaching activities focused on the design of global supply-chain networks and environmental issues. Dr. Liotta is the author of more than 20 papers published in international journals, books, and conference proceedings. He has been involved in national and European co-funded research and development projects. Giacomo passed away in December 2016, a few months after being diagnosed with cancer. U2 - 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. 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). Dr. Stoyan Tanev 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 scaling of 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, and philosophy of religion. Dr. Tanev is the Editor-in-Chief of the Technology Innovation Management Review. U3 - Algonquin College and Carleton University Andrea Gorra PhD, MSc is a part-time Professor with the Business Management and Entrepreneurship Program at Algonquin College, Ottawa, Canada and an Educational Development Facilitator at Carleton University with a focus on work-integrated and experiential learning. Prior to this, she was part of Leeds Beckett University’s Business School (UK) where she taught and researched in the areas of Supply Chain, Operations, Project and Risk Management. Andrea’s current research interests are in the fields of student entrepreneurship and building equal opportunities for practice-based learning for all students, including those from underrepresented groups. She also has an interest in qualitative data analysis, topic modelling and the grounded theory methodology, and recently published a chapter in the SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (2nd ed). U4 - LEGO Group Alicja Pospieszala (Schroll Nielsen) has a Management and Manufacturing Engineering degree from the Technical University of Wroclaw in Poland with a focus on quality management systems in production. Alicja has also completed a Masters degree in Product Development and Innovation at the University of Southern Denmark. She is currently working in the LEGO Group being responsible for activities related to problem solving and quality improvement in Mould Design. Before joining the LEGO group Alicja has worked for around 3 years at EWII Mobility A/S focusing on the quality management support of the production of 3-wheel electric vehicles. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - From Closed to Open Innovation in Emerging Economies: Evidence from the Chemical Industry in Brazil JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2018 A1 - Elisa Thomas KW - collaboration KW - emerging economy KW - intermediary KW - Open innovation KW - R&D AB - In this article, we examine how firms in an emerging economy perform research and development (R&D) activities in regards to the concept of open innovation. Most literature on open innovation shows multinational knowledge-intensive firms with well-established R&D processes mainly in developed countries. Searching for management contributions for firms in emerging economies, we qualitatively analyzed two chemical firms in Southern Brazil that have different profiles and are representative samples of typical firms in the region. Our results show that firms did not fully exploit the potential benefits brought by open innovation, even when complete opening was not the main goal. The firms were similar concerning interactions with partners and stages where relationships occur. The generation of ideas was an open activity performed both by firms and by clients, and interactions with universities were getting stronger. On the other hand, intellectual property has not been used as means of profiting from innovation activities. Our main finding refers to the internal mediation of relationships with partners. R&D teams rarely contact external organizations directly; instead, they leave such interactions to other departments within their firms. Relationships with clients are mediated through technical and commercial departments, and interactions with suppliers are intermediated by the supply staff. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 8 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1144 IS - 3 U1 - University of Stavanger Elisa Thomas is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Innovation Research at the University of Stavanger in Norway. Previously she has worked as a teacher, a course coordinator, and a student’s supervisor at Unisinos University in Brazil. Elisa completed her PhD at the Business School at Unisinos University, having spent one year at the University of Southampton for empirical research in the United Kingdom. Her research focusses on open innovation, innovation intermediaries, university–industry partnerships and the role of universities in innovation systems. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Insights (March 2017) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2017 A1 - Chris McPhee KW - collaboration KW - exploitation KW - exploration KW - hybrid entrepreneurship KW - innovation ecosystems KW - insourcing KW - organizational ambidexterity KW - outsourcing KW - part-time entrepreneurship KW - R&D KW - roles KW - suppliers PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 7 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1059 IS - 3 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, Canada, and BScH and MSc degrees in Biology from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. He has nearly 20 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. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Creativity Canvas: A Business Model for Knowledge and Idea Management JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Raouf Naggar KW - business model KW - business model canvas KW - communities KW - creativity KW - ecosystem KW - ideas KW - knowledge KW - R&D KW - research institute KW - technological innovation AB - Innovation depends on ideas generated through creativity and the knowledge and research that make it possible to put ideas to work. However, these two activities are very dependent on the people who perform them. As demonstrated by a pilot project realized at Hydro-Québec’s research institute (IREQ), any approach that does not take this understanding into account is doomed to failure. This article proposes that what must be developed is a knowledge and idea management system designed as a coherent ecosystem that takes all controlling factors into account and is based on stakeholder interest and preferences. This ecosystem is the result of a meticulous design of each of the elements that must generally be taken into account in a business model. A business model approach includes not only developing a value proposition for knowledge and idea management that suits the target clientele but also a good understanding of the resources and activities required to deliver this value proposition and especially the ways to finance them. Key to the development of such an ecosystem is the creation of fully functional innovation communities, which are responsible for building up and nurturing their ideas and knowledge assets and getting value out of them. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/914 IS - 7 U1 - IREQ Raouf Naggar is Head of Strategic Development at Hydro-Québec’s Research Institute (IREQ), where he is responsible for strategic innovation and creativity. During his career at Hydro-Québec, he has worked as engineer and as researcher in various fields such as: generation and transmission systems planning, power systems reliability, customer service, energy efficiency, system analysis and management, as well as knowledge engineering. He is presently responsible for the institute’s Strategic Innovation Projects Portfolio, where upstream RDD is performed. He is also in charge of introducing idea management in the organization. Through this role at IREQ, he became an active participant in Mosaic, the Creativity and Innovation Hub at HEC Montréal. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship (April 2013) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Chris McPhee A1 - Jean-Pierre Segers KW - business ecosystems KW - entrepreneurial orientation KW - entrepreneurship KW - incubation KW - innovation KW - Open innovation KW - partnership KW - R&D KW - regional innovation system KW - strategy PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/672 IS - 4 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 - PXL University College Jean-Pierre Segers is Dean of the Business School at PXL University College in Hasselt, Belgium, and he is the Chairman and co-founder of Creative Inc.. He holds a Master's degree in Applied Economics and Public Affairs and is a former researcher in the Small Business Research Institute at the University of Brussels. His main research interests are small businesses and entrepreneurship; innovation and technology management; national and regional systems of innovation; and public-private partnerships. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Technology Evolution (May 2013) JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Chris McPhee A1 - Michael Weiss KW - business ecosystems KW - industrial instrumentation and control KW - innovation KW - Innovation management KW - mashups KW - R&D KW - technological change KW - technology evolution KW - web applications PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/681 IS - 5 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 - Carleton University Michael Weiss holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and is a member of the Technology Innovation Management program. His research interests include open source, ecosystems, mashups, patterns, and social network analysis. Michael has published on the evolution of open source business, mashups, platforms, and technology entrepreneurship. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Problemsourcing: Local Open Innovation for R&D Organizations JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sally Davenport A1 - Stephen Cummings A1 - Urs Daellenbach A1 - Charles Campbell KW - crowdsourcing KW - local open innovation KW - Open innovation KW - problemsourcing KW - R&D AB - Open innovation and crowdsourcing are usually focused on using others external to the organization to solve your problems. How then do R&D organizations, who traditionally solve the problems of others, harness the benefits of open innovation and crowdsourcing yet maintain their mission and capabilities? "Problemsourcing" may provide the answer. In this mode of open innovation, the open call to the "crowd" of businesses is for them to suggest problems that, if solved by the R&D organization, could greatly enhance the business’ competitive advantage and therefore the nation’s economy. In this article, we describe a problemsourcing initiative developed by Industrial Research Ltd (IRL), a government-owned R&D organization in New Zealand. The "What’s Your Problem New Zealand?" competition promised NZ$1m worth of R&D services to the winning business. Using this case study, we map a range of benefits of crowdsourcing for R&D problems, including generating a potential pipeline of projects and clients as well as avoiding the challenge to the professional status of the organization’s research capability. A side-effect not initially taken account of was that, by demonstrating openness, accessibility, and helpfulness, the reputation of the research organization was greatly enhanced. The problemsourcing model provided by the "What’s Your Problem New Zealand?" competition represents a new strategic possibility for R&D organizations that complements their traditional business model by drawing on the openness that open innovation and crowdsourcing seek to leverage. As such, it can provide insights for other research organizations wishing to make use of the connectivity afforded by open innovation and crowdsourcing. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/665 IS - 3 U1 - Victoria Business School Sally Davenport is Professor of Management at Victoria Business School in Wellington, New Zealand. Her PhD in Chemistry was obtained at IRL’s predecessor organization and she has maintained close research relationships based on her scientific background. Sally’s research interests include the strategic management of innovation, interaction between innovation stakeholders in the commercialization of research and the discourse of scientific organizations. She has published in a range of journals including Research Policy, Technovation, Journal of Technology Transfer, R&D Management, Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, Science & Public Policy, and Technology Analysis & Strategic Management. U2 - Victoria Business School Stephen Cummings is Professor of Strategy at Victoria Business School in Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests include the history of management and creative approaches to strategy development. His publications have appeared in Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Business Horizons, Long Range Planning, Organization, and Organization Studies. His recent books include Recreating Strategy, The Strategy Pathfinder, Creative Strategy: Reconnecting Business and Innovation, and the forthcoming Handbook of Management and Creativity. U3 - Victoria Business School Urs Daellenbach is a Reader in Management at Victoria Business School in Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests focus on the resource-based view of the firm with a specific focus on contexts associated with R&D and innovation and where multiple diverse stakeholders may create advantages cooperatively. His publications have appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Long Range Planning, Industrial & Corporate Change, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Technology Transfer, and R&D Management. U4 - Victoria Business School Charles Campbell is a researcher at Victoria Business School in Wellington, New Zealand. Charles has a PhD in History from the University Canterbury. He is also a novelist and is currently based in the Otago region of New Zealand. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Strategic Partnerships and Open Innovation in the Biotechnology Industry in Belgium JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jean-Pierre Segers KW - Belgium KW - biotechnology KW - business models KW - Open innovation KW - R&D KW - strategic partnerships AB - Strategic partnerships in the biotechnology industry allow new technology-based firms to gain a foothold in this high-cost, high-risk industry. In this article, we examine the impact of strategic partnerships and open innovation on the success of new biotechnology firms in Belgium by developing multiple case studies of firms in regional biotechnology clusters. We find that, despite their small size and relative immaturity, new biotechnology firms are able to adopt innovative business models by providing R&D and services to larger firms and openly cooperating with them through open innovation. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/676 IS - 4 U1 - PXL University College Jean-Pierre Segers is Dean of the Business School at PXL University College in Hasselt, Belgium (http://www.pxl.be), and he is the Chairman and co-founder of Creative Inc. (http://creativeinc.be). He holds a Master's degree in Applied Economics and Public Affairs and is a former researcher in the Small Business Research Institute at the University of Brussels. His main research interests are small businesses and entrepreneurship; innovation and technology management; national and regional systems of innovation; and public-private partnerships. ER -