%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2019 %T Bridging Participatory Policy Trends and Research Traditions through Social Innovation %A Malin Lindberg %A Daniel Hallencreutz %A Anna Tengqvist %K action research %K co-creation %K innovation %K participatory research %K social innovation %X This study explores whether social innovation may serve as a bridge between participatory policy trends and research traditions when striving for improved societal relevance and impact of research and innovation (R&I). Despite their shared aim of relevance and impact through civic involvement, European R&I policies and participatory action research approaches seldom refer to each other or harness each other’s resources. The study advances the knowledge regarding how the participatory elements in the policies and research approaches relate through a participatory case study of a joint R&I process to develop a model for social innovation support in Sweden. The case study helps distinguish potential synergies between various degrees of involvement advocated in the policies and research approaches, as well as between the reliance on trending policy concepts vs. scientific notions of validity. Social innovation is perceived as a potential bridge between these elements, as it draws upon participatory academic traditions, while simultaneously tapping into current policy trends of co-creation, in the development of new approaches and solutions to societal challenges. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 9 %P 27-36 %8 04/2019 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1231 %N 4 %1 Luleå University of Technology Malin Lindberg is a Professor at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, where he specializes in participatory action research, in which knowledge is developed jointly by researchers and societal stakeholders. Her main topic of interest is inclusive forms of innovation and organization, with specific focus on social innovation, participatory innovation, and sustainable development. She has published several studies on policies, support, and management of inclusive innovation and organization in international anthologies and journals, for example, the International Journal of Innovation Management, the International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, the International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the European Public & Social Innovation Review. %2 WSP Daniel Hallencreutz is a Senior Consultant for WSP in Sweden. He specializes in participatory processes of regional development with a scholarly base in human geography. His main topic of interest is mechanisms of growth and societal change in clusters and innovation systems in various industrial and geographical contexts. His PhD thesis scrutinized growth patterns in Swedish clusters of design-intensive and cultural-products industries, such as multimedia, fashion, and music. He has managed several participatory evaluation processes of regional and national clusters and innovation systems, for example, in the European Regional Development Fund. %3 WSP Anna Tengqvist is a Senior Consultant for WSP in Sweden. She specializes in participatory processes of social sustainability, equality management, and gender mainstreaming. One of her main topics of interest is social innovation development and support, and in this area she has managed several co-creative evaluations of multi-actor platforms and projects on regional level. She has also managed several participatory model development processes for gender equality, equal opportunities, intersectionality, and accessibility in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. This work includes the development of a European standard for gender mainstreaming in the European Social Fund. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1231 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2017 %T Editorial: Insights (November 2017) %A Chris McPhee %K academic publishing %K business models %K cities %K collaboration %K entrepreneurship %K fourth industrial revolution %K Industry 4.0 %K Internet of Things %K IOT %K living labs %K open access %K open data %K Open innovation %K social innovation %K value propositions %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 7 %P 3-4 %8 11/2017 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1115 %N 11 %1 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. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1115 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2017 %T The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0): A Social Innovation Perspective %A Rabeh Morrar %A Husam Arman %A Saeed Mousa %K fourth industrial revolution %K Industry 4.0 %K Internet of Things %K social innovation %X The rapid pace of technological developments played a key role in the previous industrial revolutions. However, the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) and its embedded technology diffusion progress is expected to grow exponentially in terms of technical change and socioeconomic impact. Therefore, coping with such transformation require a holistic approach that encompasses innovative and sustainable system solutions and not just technological ones. In this article, we propose a framework that can facilitate the interaction between technological and social innovation to continuously come up with proactive, and hence timely, sustainable strategies. These strategies can leverage economic rewards, enrich society at large, and protect the environment. The new forthcoming opportunities that will be generated through the next industrial wave are gigantic at all levels. However, the readiness for such revolutionary conversion require coupling the forces of technological innovation and social innovation under the sustainability umbrella. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 7 %P 12-20 %8 11/2017 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1117 %N 11 %1 An-Najah National University Rabeh Morrar is an Assistant Professor in Innovation Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. He received and PhD degree in Innovation Economy from Lille 1 University for Science and Technology, Lille, France. His current research interests include innovation networks, the knowledge-based economy, economic development in developing countries, the labour economy, and the service economy. Dr. Rabeh is a Fellow of the Economic Research Forum (ERF), the Turkish Economic Research Forum, the American Economic Association (AEA), the Middle East Economic Association (MEEA), and the European Association for Research in Services (RESER). He is a member of the Advisory Committee of Economic Statistics, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the Palestinian National Committee of Trade in Services, the National Team for Developing National Export Strategy, the Business Innovation and Partnership Centre in Palestine, the ESCWA Team for ICT and Innovation, and the National Team for Public Procurement Capacity Building Strategy. Rabeh has published more than 15 scientific papers, reports, and policy papers in different disciplines related to innovation economics, Palestinian economics, trade, and the service economy. %2 Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research Husam Arman is an Associate Research Specialist at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research. Dr. Arman is currently engaged in work related to competitiveness and innovation and SME development. He studies and works in the leading edge subjects of strategic technological innovation and R&D management. During his Research Fellow posting and PhD studies at The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, he developed methodologies to optimize technology investments strategies within large firms such as Rolls-Royce. He has worked for more than five years in universities in teaching and research. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, R&D Management Journal, the International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, the International Journal of Technology Intelligence, and Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, and he has presented at conferences such as PICMET and IAMOT. %3 Palestinian Technical University Kadoorie Saeed Mousa is a Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Palestinian Technical University Kadoorie (PTUK), where he teaches Innovation, Technology and business related courses. In addition, is Head of the Studies & Development Division at PTUK, where he conducts research regarding improving the university, such as strategic and implementation planning through preparing and submitting development proposals, as he is responsible for developing and driving innovation roadmap through encouraging creativity in R&D team. He holds a master’s degree in Innovation Economics from Friedrich Schiller University in Germany. Saeed’s current research interests span a wide range of topics regarding innovation, such as social innovation, technology innovation, and non-technical innovation. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1117 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2015 %T Contextuality and Co-Creation Matter: A Qualitative Case Study Comparison of Living Lab Concepts in Urban Research %A Yvonne Franz %A Karin Tausz %A Sarah-Kristin Thiel %K co-creation %K innovation ecosystem %K participation %K social innovation %K urban living labs %X Innovation development is key to transforming a product-based economy into an innovative service economy by integrating users as co-creators in real-life environments. User co-creation and user involvement are key elements in living labs. Urban living labs add not only the urban component to the conceptual design, but also societal, political, and technological questions. Fields of analysis in urban research relate to socio-spatial environment, living together, and urban policies. The leading question of this article is: to what extent can urban living labs be used as an instrument to support these fields of investigation? Comparing three different approaches for urban living labs, ranging from socially-centred to more technology-centred, we offer a more nuanced understanding of urban living lab design in diverging research contexts. All three case studies manage to go beyond testing and improving new products, which is normally the aim of existing living labs, by embedding innovation in appropriate social, structural, and institutional frameworks, and targeting civil society involvement. The community benefits from this case study comparison because it contextualizes living labs as research methodology to be applied in future urban research projects. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 5 %P 48-55 %8 12/2015 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/952 %N 12 %1 Institute for Urban and Regional Research Yvonne Franz is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research within the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She studied Economics and Geography at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, the University of Cologne, and the University of Vienna, and she received her PhD on gentrification processes in New York City, Berlin, and Vienna in 2013. She is now involved in two JPI Urban Europe projects dealing with gentrification processes (Practices and Policies for Neighbourhood Improvement: Towards Gentrification 2.0) and interethnic coexistence (ICEC - Interethnic Coexistence in European Cities) that includes the urban living lab approach. She is a lecturer at University of Vienna and co-organizer of the Vienna Summer School in Urban Studies. %2 AustriaTech Karin Tausz is Head of Innovation & E-Mobility at AustriaTech. She received a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Vienna, Austria. Her experience includes policy consulting and innovation management for urban mobility, ITS and e-mobility, addressing public authorities, and companies. She was previously research coordinator at the Mobility Department of the applied science organisation AIT. She has been active for over 20 years in regional and urban development as a project manager, evaluator, and consultant with an emphasis on public participation, transport, and governance. %3 Telecommunications Research Centre Wien Sarah-Kristin Thiel is a Project Manager at the Telecommunications Research Centre Wien and is pursuing a PhD from the University of Salzburg. In her thesis, she investigates the influence of game-inspired elements in civic engagement platforms. She received a Master’s degree in Media Informatics from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. During her studies, she has gained experience in the automotive industry, human–machine interaction, and mobile development. Her research interests include (mobile) human–computer interaction, interaction design, and technology in society. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/952 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2015 %T Editorial: 100th Issue (November 2015) %A Chris McPhee %K 3D printing %K born-global firms %K collaborative innovation %K cybersafety %K cybersecurity %K cyberspace %K future research %K innovation %K lean global startups %K lean startups %K management %K Open innovation %K social innovation %K supply chains %K technology %K technology innovation management review %K TIM Review %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 5 %P 3-4 %8 11/2015 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/939 %N 11 %1 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 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. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/939 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2015 %T Editorial: Insights (May 2015) %A Chris McPhee %K business ecosystems %K cybersecurity %K Innovation management %K Internet of Things %K non-practicing entities %K open source policies %K open source software %K patent trolls %K social innovation %K transformative innovation %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 5 %P 3-4 %8 05/2015 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/893 %N 5 %1 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 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. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/893 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2015 %T TIM Lecture Series – Creating Life-Saving Media as a Social Entrepreneur %A Firdaus Kharas %K animation %K culture shift %K film %K global health %K humanitarian %K media %K public health %K social entrepreneurship %K social innovation %K societal issues %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 5 %P 40-42 %8 11/2015 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/945 %N 11 %1 Chocolate Moose Media Firdaus Kharas is a social entrepreneur and humanitarian. Through his company, Chocolate Moose Media, Kharas produces animation, documentaries, films, and television series designed to educate, entertain, and change societal and individual behaviour, particularly in relation to transmittable diseases, via a process he calls "Culture Shift". His goal is to positively influence people’s knowledge, attitudes and behaviours, especially those of children and youth, in order to improve human health conditions globally. In June, 2015, Kharas received an honorary doctorate from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, in recognition of his “innovative work as a social entrepreneur and for the advancement of public health and children’s rights in a global context”. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/945 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2014 %T Does Social Innovation Require Social Entrepreneurship? %A Asceline Groot %A Ben Dankbaar %K entrepreneurship %K institutional change %K Schumpeter %K social change %K social entrepreneurship %K social innovation %K sustainability %X Social innovation is now considered an important element in the search for solutions to pressing social problems. Inspired by Schumpeter’s conceptualization of innovation, "social" entrepreneurship is thought to contribute to "social" innovation in more or less the same way that "normal" entrepreneurship consists of the introduction of "normal" innovations. In the literature as well as in practice, the definition of concepts such as social innovation and social entrepreneurship has led to considerable confusion. We aim to bring clarity to the debate, arguing that every entrepreneurial action results in some measure of intended or unintended social innovation, regardless of whether the entrepreneurs in question are considered or consider themselves "social" or not. We test our insights in an investigation of 20 social enterprises that have a commercial business model. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 4 %P 17-26 %8 12/2014 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/854 %N 12 %1 ASN Bank Asceline Groot is Senior Communications Officer at ASN Bank, a Dutch consumer bank that focuses on sustainable investments. She is responsible for the online community of ASN Bank "Voor de Wereld van Morgen| (For the World of Tomorrow). She is also a part-time PhD candidate at the Institute of Management Research of the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her research is concerned with the effects of social entrepreneurs on society. She is the author of the books Het Nieuwe Groen (The New Green) and Dromen voor Altijd (Dreams for Ever). %2 Radboud University Nijmegen Ben Dankbaar is Emeritus Professor of Innovation Management at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He is currently a part-time professor at the Automotive Institute of the HAN University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and he is partner in InnoTeP (Innovation in Theory and Practice). He studied social sciences and economics at the University of Amsterdam and has a PhD in Economics from the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands. Ben Dankbaar has published widely on issues of technical change, work organization, innovation management, and industrial policy. He is also an expert on developments in the automobile industry. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/854 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2014 %T Editorial: Innovation and Entrepreneurship (December 2014) %A Chris McPhee %K 3D printing %K business models %K commercialization %K disruption %K entrepreneurship %K innovation %K innovation capacity %K innovation culture %K patents %K social entrepreneurship %K social innovation %K spinoffs %K university technology transfer %K value propositions %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 4 %P 3-5 %8 12/2014 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/852 %N 12 %1 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. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/852 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T Accelerating a Network Model of Care: Taking a Social Innovation to Scale %A Vickie Cammack %A Kerry Byrne %K network centric care %K network model of care %K personal networks %K social innovation %K Tyze %X Government-funded systems of health and social care are facing enormous fiscal and human-resource challenges. The space for innovation in care is wide open and new disruptive patterns are emerging. These include self-management and personal budgets, participatory and integrated care, supported decision making and a renewed focus on prevention. Taking these disruptive patterns to scale can be accelerated by a technologically enabled shift to a network model of care to co-create the best outcomes for individuals, family caregivers, and health and social care organizations. The connections, relationships, and activities within an individual’s personal network lay the foundation for care that health and social care systems/policy must simultaneously support and draw on for positive outcomes. Practical tools, adequate information, and tangible resources are required to coordinate and sustain care. Tyze Personal Networks is a social venture that uses technology to engage and inform the individual, their personal networks, and their care providers to co-create the best outcomes. In this article, we demonstrate how Tyze contributes to a shift to a network model of care by strengthening our networks and enhancing partnerships between care providers, individuals, and family and friends. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 26-30 %8 07/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/578 %N 7 %1 Tyze Personal Networks Vickie Cammack is President and CEO of Tyze Personal Networks. In this role, Vickie focuses her attention and expertise on how best to deliver online, personal support networks to people facing life challenges. Vickie is also a co-founder of Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN), a pioneer social enterprise supporting families to secure the future of their family member with a disability. She created PLAN’s Personal Network program, a unique response to the isolation experienced by people with disabilities and mentored the spread of PLAN groups in 40 locations globally. Vickie is the recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal of Canada, the Canadian Psychological Association’s Humanitarian Award, and Simon Fraser University President’s Club Distinguished Community Leadership Award. She co-led a Canadian exploration on sustainability and social innovation and is a Fellow with Social Innovation Generation. %2 Tyze Personal Networks Kerry Byrne, PhD, is the Director of Research at Tyze Personal Networks. She has over 10 years of healthcare research experience and cares deeply about improving care for families. Through her work, she strives to give a voice to families’ and patients’ experiences with health and social care and improve the mobilization of formal and informal support for family caregivers and persons experiencing life challenges. Her areas of research expertise are in family caregiving, care transitions, home care, and relationship-centered care. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/578 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T Being Disruptive: How Open Growth is Delivering Effective Social Change at a Fast Pace %A Elisha Muskat %A Delyse Sylvester %K crowdsourcing %K open growth %K open source %K scaling-up %K social entrepreneurship %K social innovation %K social networks %K transparency %X Both innovators and funders need tools that map the entire constellation of solutions in a sector. Innovators, often labeled and isolated as system disruptors, need to be linked with their global peers offering and seeking each others proven strategies to accelerate positive change. The impact investing space needs a simple, open, and transparent way to find, convene, support, and track the progress of innovators. This article describes how the Ashoka Changemakers.com online community creates a space for: investors to find and support multiple innovations; social innovators to find each other, work together, and source funds; and disruptive innovations to grow over time where disruptive change is needed, fast. Crowd-sourcing, transparency, and open growth are keys to accelerating large-scale change and creating a world of changemakers. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 16-20 %8 07/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/576 %N 7 %1 Ashoka Canada Elisha Muskat is the Executive Director of Ashoka Canada. Prior to joining Ashoka in 2009, where Elisha became absorbed in the systemic change approach at the core of Ashoka's work, she worked primarily in youth development, running programs in Toronto, New York City, and Syracuse. She has also launched conflict-resolution and peer-mediation programs and developed a green business advisory for small business owners. Elisha has an MBA from Schulich School of Business at York University and a BA in Psychology from McGill University. %2 Ashoka Changemakers Delyse Sylvester is the Director of Community at Ashoka Changemakers. Delyse has been committed to social change for three decades in a variety of fields including fair trade, conflict resolution, deforestation, and domestic abuse, through volunteer organizations, NGOs, advocacy groups, and universities. She has put this broad experience to work at Ashoka Changemakers, building innovative cross-sector collaborations, online awareness campaigns, and tools that advance the impact of social entrepreneurs around the world. Delyse also addresses conflict and injustice as a board member at Inter Pares. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/576 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T Editorial: Social Innovation (July 2012) %A Chris McPhee %A Stephen Huddart %K charities %K community sector %K nonprofit %K social entrepreneurship %K social innovation %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 3-4 %8 07/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/573 %N 7 %1 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. %2 The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation Stephen Huddart is the President and CEO of The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation in Montreal, where he has worked for the past nine years. The Foundation's mission is to engage Canadians in building a society that is inclusive, sustainable and resilient. Stephen's past endeavours include documentary filmmaking in Latin America, owning and operating a jazz cafe in Vancouver, and working as a humane educator with the British Columbia SPCA. He serves on the boards of ArtsSmarts, Philanthropic Foundations Canada, and the McGill Faculty of Religious Studies. He has a Masters Degree in Management from McGill University. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/573 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T Evergreen Brick Works: An Innovation and Sustainability Case Study %A Seana Irvine %K environmental education %K evergreen %K green building %K LEED %K nonprofit %K social innovation %X Technology is rapidly being deployed to advance social innovation that creates lasting change. This case study of Evergreen Brick Works explores how Evergreen is leveraging the power of its unique new campus as a showcase for advancing sustainability-related behavioural change along with new and emerging state-of-the-art technologies to advance its mission. The ultimate success of these technologies will be in their ability to engage larger numbers and greater diversity among participants, and in their ability to translate new insights into on-the-ground change in their communities. The article also identifies that the need for an organizational network mindset is as important as the technologies to achieve these changes. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 21-25 %8 07/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/577 %N 7 %1 Evergreen Seana Irvine is Evergreen’s Chief Operating Officer, overseeing the management and coordination of Evergreen’s 100+ staff, driving key strategic directions, and leading and facilitating operational plans and processes. Seana was an original team member in the development and start-up of Evergreen Brick Works, helping drive program strategies in tandem with the design process. She has a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies (Planning) and serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/577 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T From Stories to Evidence: How Mining Data Can Promote Innovation in the Nonprofit Sector %A Michael Lenczner %A Susan Phillips %K Ajah %K charities %K community sector %K data mining %K funding database %K nonprofit %K social innovation %X Being a director at a nonprofit organization often means making guesses instead of properly informed decisions. One source of the “information fog” is fragmented funding. Nonprofit organizations have multiple types of funders, most of whom are not their direct beneficiaries. Predicting funder behaviour is therefore more of an art than a science. Planning for the future, setting goals, and making decisions all suffer in the nonprofit sector because of a lack of timely and accurate information. This article examines the opportunities to use newly available digitized information to address this information deficit. It shows how the rich, variegated and fast-changing landscape of information available online can be collected, combined, and repurposed in order to deliver it in actionable forms to decision makers across the nonprofit sector. This information can significantly improve planning decisions and enhance the effectiveness of the sector. The article concludes that a cultural shift is required in order for the nonprofit sector to exploit the opportunities presented by digital information. Nonprofits and funders are enjoined to increase their numeracy and to find creative ways to use data as part of their evaluation, planning and decision making. Researchers need to be adventurous in their use of quantitative information and specifically should employ linked datasets in order to explore previously unanswerable research and policy questions. The producers of data need to collect and publish their information in ways that facilitate reuse. Finally, funders need to support a variety of projects that seek to exploit these new opportunities. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 10-15 %8 07/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/575 %N 7 %1 Ajah Michael Lenczner is a Montreal-based entrepreneur who works in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. He has worked on community technologies since 2000, community data since 2003, and on open government data since 2005. He co-founded Ile Sans Fil, CivicAccess.ca, Montréal Ouvert, serves on the board of several nonprofits, and is a frequent partner in academic-community collaborations. He is the CEO and founder of Ajah, a company that builds online tools for the Canadian nonprofit sector. %2 Carleton University Susan Phillips is Professor and Director of the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where she has led the creation of Canada’s first Masters in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership. Internationally recognized for her research in this field, Susan is currently co-editing the Routledge Companion to Philanthropy, the first international handbook in philanthropy, and she is beginning a major SSHRC-funded comparative study of community foundations. She is a frequent advisor to nonprofits, foundations, and governments. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/575 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T Hacking Health: Bottom-up Innovation for Healthcare %A Jeeshan Chowdhury %K hackathon %K hacking health %K healthcare %K social innovation %K technology entrepreneurship %X Healthcare is not sustainable and still functions with outdated technology (e.g., pagers, paper records). Top-down approaches by governments and corporations have failed to deliver digital technologies to modernize healthcare. Disruptive innovation must come from the ground up by bridging the gap between front-line health experts and innovators in the latest web and mobile technology. Hacking Health is a hackathon that is focused on social innovation more than technical innovation. Our approach to improve healthcare is to pair technological innovators with healthcare experts to build realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line healthcare problems. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 31-35 %8 07/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/579 %N 7 %1 Hacking Health Jeeshan Chowdhury is completing an MD/DPhil at the Universities of Alberta and Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Jeeshan’s academic research focuses on emerging healthcare technologies, namely developing novel point-of-care diagnostics and quantitative methods to measure the impact of health information systems. As a Sauvé Scholar, Jeeshan has co-founded HackingHealth.ca to foster health technology innovations. He also launched EnlightHealth.com, a health tech startup that innovates web and mobile solutions for patients, providers, and clinics. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/579 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T Platformation: Cloud Computing Tools at the Service of Social Change %A Anil Patel %K charity %K cloud computing %K nonprofit %K Platformation %K sharing imperative %K social innovation %X The following article establishes some context and definitions for what is termed the “sharing imperative” – a movement or tendency towards sharing information online and in real time that has rapidly transformed several industries. As internet-enabled devices proliferate to all corners of the globe, ways of working and accessing information have changed. Users now expect to be able to access the products, services, and information that they want from anywhere, at any time, on any device. This article addresses how the nonprofit sector might respond to those demands by embracing the sharing imperative. It suggests that how well an organization shares has become one of the most pressing governance questions a nonprofit organization must tackle. Finally, the article introduces Platformation, a project whereby tools that enable better inter and intra-organizational sharing are tested for scalability, affordability, interoperability, and security, all with a non-profit lens. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 36-41 %8 07/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/580 %N 7 %1 Framework Anil Patel is an Ashoka Fellow and Executive Director of Framework, the charity that runs the Timeraiser. The Timeraiser is part volunteer fair, part silent art auction, and part night on the town. To date, the Timeraiser has generated 100,000 volunteer hours, engaged 6,500 Canadians to pick up a cause, worked with more than 350 agencies in need of skilled volunteers, and invested $580,000 in the careers of Canadian artists. In the decade ahead, Anil will be focused on how nonprofits and funding organizations can share critical information online and in real time. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/580 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T Renewing the Future: Social Innovation Systems, Sector Shift, and Innoweave %A Stephen Huddart %K community sector %K social innovation %K social innovation systems %X Against a backdrop of various “occupy” movements signifying civic dissatisfaction with the social contract, and in an era of fiscal restraint affecting governments and communities in many parts of the world, we need new and more effective ways to address complex social challenges. While continuous innovation is commonly understood to be a source of growth, productivity improvement, and competitive advantage in the technology and manufacturing sectors, the author’s focus is on social innovation systems, designed to replace maladaptive institutions and obsolete policy frameworks with novel and disruptive means for improving outcomes on issues such as population health and climate change. This article proposes a definition of such systems, and examines how system-level tools including impact investing, open data platforms, and “change labs” are fostering collaboration among the private, public, and community sectors. We argue that a key priority at this time is to make these and other tools and processes for social innovation available to community organizations and their government and business partners everywhere, in a manner that allows for continuous cycles of implementation and learning. The author describes one such project currently being developed in Canada by Social Innovation Generation and other partners, called Innoweave. Innoweave is a technology-enabled social innovation system for sharing the tools and processes of social innovation with the community sector. The article concludes with a call for multi-sectoral participation in social innovation systems as an investment in society’s adaptive capacity and future wellbeing. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 5-9 %8 07/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/574 %N 7 %1 The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation Stephen Huddart is the President and CEO of The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation in Montreal, where he has worked for the past nine years. The Foundation's mission is to engage Canadians in building a society that is inclusive, sustainable and resilient. Stephen's past endeavours include documentary filmmaking in Latin America, owning and operating a jazz cafe in Vancouver, and working as a humane educator with the British Columbia SPCA. He serves on the boards of ArtsSmarts, Philanthropic Foundations Canada, and the McGill Faculty of Religious Studies. He has a Masters Degree in Management from McGill University. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/574