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Today many traditional manufacturing companies desire to complement their product offerings with various services, a transition commonly referred to as servitization (Vandermerwe & Rada, 1988).

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Welcome to the March issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. As guest editors, it is our pleasure to introduce this month’s editorial theme covering a variety of topics on agile and rapid approaches in product development. As indicated by this collection of scholars in fields of management studies, R&D is a key source of competitive advantage for high-technology organizations. At the same time, investments in R&D and innovation can be risky and costly, since typically only a minority of industrial R&D projects yield a commercial product or service.

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The professional literature that examines the relationship between cybersecurity and company value is scant and underdeveloped. Moreover, we were not able to find a single article published in an academic journal that examined the relationship between cybersecurity and the growth of new companies in initial stages of development.

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Thinking about the future is clearly not a new subject. Ancient Greeks sought inspiration for their doubts about the future in the Oracle of Delphi, one of humanity’s early efforts to better understand the future. Nowadays, looking for anticipatory trends and trying to understanding the pathways of technological changes, with a wide range of future possibilities, constitute practical and pressing challenges for managers. This makes them a central theme for organizations and nations who care about the way they navigate forwards.