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Technology Innovation Management Review, 2020
Welcome to the September issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month feature... more Welcome to the September issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month features the first two of several papers in upcoming issues from the 31st ISPIM Innovation Conference, which had the theme "Innovating in Times of Crisis", and was held virtually on June 7-8th, 2020. Our ongoing cooperation with the International Society for Professional Innovation Management offers the opportunity for the Editorial Board to select highly relevant articles in particular research domains and invite submissions that undergo the usual double blinded peer review process resulting in the selection of high quality contributions of interest to our readers. Three other papers add further contributions based on current research focusing on the strategic aspects of business intelligence, smarter cities, and the social acceptance of cleaner energy.
Technology Innovation Management Review, 2021
Welcome to the May issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This issue consists of a... more Welcome to the May issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This issue consists of a mixture of themes structured under our usual "Insights" title.
Computers in Industry, Dec 1, 2015
In this paper we introduce a method that combines principal component analysis, correlation analy... more In this paper we introduce a method that combines principal component analysis, correlation analysis, K-means clustering and self organizing maps for the quantitative semantic analysis of textual data focusing on the relationship between firms' co-creation activities, the perception of their innovation and the articulation of the attributes of their product-enabled services. Principal component analysis was used to identify the components of firms' value co-creation activities and service value attributes; correlation analysis was used to examine the relationship between the degree of involvement in specific co-creation activities, the online articulation of firms' service value attributes and the perception of their innovativeness. K-means and self organizing map (SOM) are used to cluster firms with regards to their involvement in co-creation and new service development, and, additionally, as complementary tools for studying the relationship between co-creation and new service development. The results show that, first, there is a statistically significant relationship between firms' degree of involvement in co-creation activities and the degree of articulation of their service value attributes; second, the relationship should be considered within the context of firms' innovation activities; third, OS Software-driven firms are the best example in terms of co-creation and new product-enabled service development, i.e. the collaborative principles built in their customer participation platforms should be adopted by other (non-software) firms interested in enhancing their innovation capacity through involvement in co-creation and new product-enabled service development.
Technology Innovation Management Review, 2020
Welcome to the August issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month features p... more Welcome to the August issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month features papers from the ISPIM Connects Bangkok Conference-Partnering for an Innovation Community, held on March 1-4, 2020. The publication of this special issue was driven by Dr. Xavier Parisot and Dr. Thierry Isckia, Professors at Bangkok University. An additional paper by another regular ISPIM participant rounds out the list of contributions. The special issue is a wonderful example of ongoing cooperation with the leaders of the ISPIM society in promoting innovation management research.
Technology Innovation Management Review, 2020
This chapter focuses on the nature of business planning activities from an engineering entre-/int... more This chapter focuses on the nature of business planning activities from an engineering entre-/intrapreneurial perspective. It is therefore not limited to technology start-ups or newly created engineering firms but equally relevant for established firms investing in projects that assemble and deploy highly qualified human resources and heterogeneous assets that are intricately related to advances in scientific, engineering, and technological knowledge for the purpose of creating and capturing value for the firm. After discussing the unique characteristics and challenges of technology-driven business environments that are the typical business playgrounds for engineering professionals, the chapter focuses on describing the two key components of the business planning process: the articulation and the development of a viable business model, and managing the scaling up and the growth of the business. The description does not pretend to exhaust the topic and continuously refers to several excellent recent publications that could complement the learning process of young and advanced engineering professionals interested in knowing more about the business planning process.
Springer eBooks, 1998
This chapter provides access to basic envelope solitons concepts, the motivation for their study ... more This chapter provides access to basic envelope solitons concepts, the motivation for their study in the area of electromagnetic wave transmission and, finally, the elements underpinning the proposed use for solitons in telecommunications. Since temporal envelope solitons are the basic physical entities that will be used, quite a lot of attention is paid to them, with a view to equipping the reader with basic system tools, quite rapidly. Logic gates are then introduced in a simple, and well-known, way but the ideas behind soliton dragging gates are exposed through numerical studies of soliton interactions. Two major possible constraints on a soliton transmission system, namely the Gordon-Haus effect and self-frequency shifting are discussed, in detail, and remedies to overcome these problems are outlined. The chapter ends with a discussion of soliton transmission systems and the chances of practical implementation, in the near to medium future. It is emphasised, throughout, that although semiconductors, especially low-dimensional ones, are integral parts of a complete soliton system, the approach here is to concentrate on what the system actually does. Hence there is a pervasive emphasis on solitons, rather than the semiconductor materials.
Elsevier eBooks, 2016
The risk of launching new products and starting new firms is known to be extremely high. The lean... more The risk of launching new products and starting new firms is known to be extremely high. The lean start-up approach is a way of reducing these risks and enhancing the chances for success by validating the products and services in the market with customers before launching it in full scale. The main point is to develop a minimum viable product that can be tested by potential customers and then pivot the idea if necessary around these customer evaluations. This iterative process goes through a number of stages with the purpose of validating the customers' problems, the suggested solution, and the final business model. In other words, the start-up must first nail the problem together with the customers, then develop the solution and test, and then in the end scale it to a full-grown business model.
Technology Innovation Management Review, Apr 6, 2021
Welcome to the March issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month features pa... more Welcome to the March issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month features papers from the ISPIM Connects Global Conference "Celebrating the World of Innovation" held on December 7th-8th, 2020. This special issue continues our ongoing fruitful cooperation with the ISPIM society in promoting and spreading knowledge and experience in innovation management research around the world.
Abstract This chapter focuses on the nature of business planning activities from an engineering e... more Abstract This chapter focuses on the nature of business planning activities from an engineering entrepreneurial perspective. It is not limited to technology start-ups or newly created engineering firms but equally relevant for established firms investing in projects that assemble and deploy highly qualified human resources and heterogeneous assets that are intricately related to advances in scientific, engineering, and technological knowledge for the purpose of creating and capturing value for the firm. After discussing the unique characteristics and challenges of technology-driven business environments that are typical of the business playground for engineering professionals, this chapter focuses on describing the two key components of the business planning process: the articulation and the development of a viable business model, and managing the growth and scaling up of the business. The description does not pretend to exhaust the topic and continuously refers to several excellent recent publications that could complement the learning process of young and advanced engineering professionals interested in knowing more about the business planning process.
Elsevier eBooks, 2016
This book and the individual contributions contained in it are protected under copyright by the P... more This book and the individual contributions contained in it are protected under copyright by the Publisher (other than as may be noted herein). Notices Knowledge and best practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience broaden our understanding, changes in research methods, professional practices, or medical treatment may become necessary. Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility.
IGI Global eBooks, 2018
Creativity is often conceptualized as actions and outcomes related to the creation of novel and u... more Creativity is often conceptualized as actions and outcomes related to the creation of novel and useful ideas within the context of the development of new products. It is usually positioned in the activities of designers who play the role of “the creator”. In this paper the authors suggest “changing the subject” to consumers by claiming that creativity plays a key role in the adoption phase when they attempt to address their needs and preferences by appropriating the use value of everyday technological products. They emphasize that the product value perception which makes a potential consumer buy is the result of this consumer's own activities and efforts. Thus, the intensity of consumers' creative activities becomes a critical adoption factor. The authors suggest that activity-based approaches such as actor-network theory and activity theory could be quite appropriate in studying the dynamics and the design of new product adoption, and offer a comparative analysis indicating that actor-network theory has a greater potential to contribute to the interplay between consumer creativity and technology adoption research.
Technology Innovation Management Review, 2019
Welcome to the November issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This edition brings... more Welcome to the November issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This edition brings together a mixed collection of Insights, covering a range of themes from entrepreneurship, university-business ecosystems, incubation practices, marketing, competitive advantage, and learning capabilities, to new themes such as "deepfakes" online and in the digital media, as well as a paper on "design rules" for interorganisational collaboration. The edition starts with Anna Brattström's "Working with Startups? These are the Three Things You Ought to Know about Startup Teams". Dr. Brattström provides a general introduction to startup teams, teamwork, and the people side that makes successful startups, based on a review of "state-of-the-art research about startups" (5). The aim is to provide "actionable insights about startup teams; who they are, how they work, and how they stay together" (5). The author conducted a study in the Web of Science research database focusing on new venture teams, startups, and entrepreneurship between 1997-2019. From this, she identifies "three stylized facts" that help keep startup teams together, which deal with team composition, structure and emotion. The focus on homogeneity, change, and emotion is likely to resonate with experienced startup teams, as well as assist new startups, or startups-information to navigate the fastmoving new business relationship territory.
WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks, Mar 23, 2022
Technology Innovation Management Review, 2020
Welcome to the September issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month feature... more Welcome to the September issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month features the first two of several papers in upcoming issues from the 31st ISPIM Innovation Conference, which had the theme "Innovating in Times of Crisis", and was held virtually on June 7-8th, 2020. Our ongoing cooperation with the International Society for Professional Innovation Management offers the opportunity for the Editorial Board to select highly relevant articles in particular research domains and invite submissions that undergo the usual double blinded peer review process resulting in the selection of high quality contributions of interest to our readers. Three other papers add further contributions based on current research focusing on the strategic aspects of business intelligence, smarter cities, and the social acceptance of cleaner energy.
Technology Innovation Management Review, 2021
Welcome to the May issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This issue consists of a... more Welcome to the May issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This issue consists of a mixture of themes structured under our usual "Insights" title.
Computers in Industry, Dec 1, 2015
In this paper we introduce a method that combines principal component analysis, correlation analy... more In this paper we introduce a method that combines principal component analysis, correlation analysis, K-means clustering and self organizing maps for the quantitative semantic analysis of textual data focusing on the relationship between firms' co-creation activities, the perception of their innovation and the articulation of the attributes of their product-enabled services. Principal component analysis was used to identify the components of firms' value co-creation activities and service value attributes; correlation analysis was used to examine the relationship between the degree of involvement in specific co-creation activities, the online articulation of firms' service value attributes and the perception of their innovativeness. K-means and self organizing map (SOM) are used to cluster firms with regards to their involvement in co-creation and new service development, and, additionally, as complementary tools for studying the relationship between co-creation and new service development. The results show that, first, there is a statistically significant relationship between firms' degree of involvement in co-creation activities and the degree of articulation of their service value attributes; second, the relationship should be considered within the context of firms' innovation activities; third, OS Software-driven firms are the best example in terms of co-creation and new product-enabled service development, i.e. the collaborative principles built in their customer participation platforms should be adopted by other (non-software) firms interested in enhancing their innovation capacity through involvement in co-creation and new product-enabled service development.
Technology Innovation Management Review, 2020
Welcome to the August issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month features p... more Welcome to the August issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month features papers from the ISPIM Connects Bangkok Conference-Partnering for an Innovation Community, held on March 1-4, 2020. The publication of this special issue was driven by Dr. Xavier Parisot and Dr. Thierry Isckia, Professors at Bangkok University. An additional paper by another regular ISPIM participant rounds out the list of contributions. The special issue is a wonderful example of ongoing cooperation with the leaders of the ISPIM society in promoting innovation management research.
Technology Innovation Management Review, 2020
This chapter focuses on the nature of business planning activities from an engineering entre-/int... more This chapter focuses on the nature of business planning activities from an engineering entre-/intrapreneurial perspective. It is therefore not limited to technology start-ups or newly created engineering firms but equally relevant for established firms investing in projects that assemble and deploy highly qualified human resources and heterogeneous assets that are intricately related to advances in scientific, engineering, and technological knowledge for the purpose of creating and capturing value for the firm. After discussing the unique characteristics and challenges of technology-driven business environments that are the typical business playgrounds for engineering professionals, the chapter focuses on describing the two key components of the business planning process: the articulation and the development of a viable business model, and managing the scaling up and the growth of the business. The description does not pretend to exhaust the topic and continuously refers to several excellent recent publications that could complement the learning process of young and advanced engineering professionals interested in knowing more about the business planning process.
Springer eBooks, 1998
This chapter provides access to basic envelope solitons concepts, the motivation for their study ... more This chapter provides access to basic envelope solitons concepts, the motivation for their study in the area of electromagnetic wave transmission and, finally, the elements underpinning the proposed use for solitons in telecommunications. Since temporal envelope solitons are the basic physical entities that will be used, quite a lot of attention is paid to them, with a view to equipping the reader with basic system tools, quite rapidly. Logic gates are then introduced in a simple, and well-known, way but the ideas behind soliton dragging gates are exposed through numerical studies of soliton interactions. Two major possible constraints on a soliton transmission system, namely the Gordon-Haus effect and self-frequency shifting are discussed, in detail, and remedies to overcome these problems are outlined. The chapter ends with a discussion of soliton transmission systems and the chances of practical implementation, in the near to medium future. It is emphasised, throughout, that although semiconductors, especially low-dimensional ones, are integral parts of a complete soliton system, the approach here is to concentrate on what the system actually does. Hence there is a pervasive emphasis on solitons, rather than the semiconductor materials.
Elsevier eBooks, 2016
The risk of launching new products and starting new firms is known to be extremely high. The lean... more The risk of launching new products and starting new firms is known to be extremely high. The lean start-up approach is a way of reducing these risks and enhancing the chances for success by validating the products and services in the market with customers before launching it in full scale. The main point is to develop a minimum viable product that can be tested by potential customers and then pivot the idea if necessary around these customer evaluations. This iterative process goes through a number of stages with the purpose of validating the customers' problems, the suggested solution, and the final business model. In other words, the start-up must first nail the problem together with the customers, then develop the solution and test, and then in the end scale it to a full-grown business model.
Technology Innovation Management Review, Apr 6, 2021
Welcome to the March issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month features pa... more Welcome to the March issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This month features papers from the ISPIM Connects Global Conference "Celebrating the World of Innovation" held on December 7th-8th, 2020. This special issue continues our ongoing fruitful cooperation with the ISPIM society in promoting and spreading knowledge and experience in innovation management research around the world.
Abstract This chapter focuses on the nature of business planning activities from an engineering e... more Abstract This chapter focuses on the nature of business planning activities from an engineering entrepreneurial perspective. It is not limited to technology start-ups or newly created engineering firms but equally relevant for established firms investing in projects that assemble and deploy highly qualified human resources and heterogeneous assets that are intricately related to advances in scientific, engineering, and technological knowledge for the purpose of creating and capturing value for the firm. After discussing the unique characteristics and challenges of technology-driven business environments that are typical of the business playground for engineering professionals, this chapter focuses on describing the two key components of the business planning process: the articulation and the development of a viable business model, and managing the growth and scaling up of the business. The description does not pretend to exhaust the topic and continuously refers to several excellent recent publications that could complement the learning process of young and advanced engineering professionals interested in knowing more about the business planning process.
Elsevier eBooks, 2016
This book and the individual contributions contained in it are protected under copyright by the P... more This book and the individual contributions contained in it are protected under copyright by the Publisher (other than as may be noted herein). Notices Knowledge and best practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience broaden our understanding, changes in research methods, professional practices, or medical treatment may become necessary. Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility.
IGI Global eBooks, 2018
Creativity is often conceptualized as actions and outcomes related to the creation of novel and u... more Creativity is often conceptualized as actions and outcomes related to the creation of novel and useful ideas within the context of the development of new products. It is usually positioned in the activities of designers who play the role of “the creator”. In this paper the authors suggest “changing the subject” to consumers by claiming that creativity plays a key role in the adoption phase when they attempt to address their needs and preferences by appropriating the use value of everyday technological products. They emphasize that the product value perception which makes a potential consumer buy is the result of this consumer's own activities and efforts. Thus, the intensity of consumers' creative activities becomes a critical adoption factor. The authors suggest that activity-based approaches such as actor-network theory and activity theory could be quite appropriate in studying the dynamics and the design of new product adoption, and offer a comparative analysis indicating that actor-network theory has a greater potential to contribute to the interplay between consumer creativity and technology adoption research.
Technology Innovation Management Review, 2019
Welcome to the November issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This edition brings... more Welcome to the November issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This edition brings together a mixed collection of Insights, covering a range of themes from entrepreneurship, university-business ecosystems, incubation practices, marketing, competitive advantage, and learning capabilities, to new themes such as "deepfakes" online and in the digital media, as well as a paper on "design rules" for interorganisational collaboration. The edition starts with Anna Brattström's "Working with Startups? These are the Three Things You Ought to Know about Startup Teams". Dr. Brattström provides a general introduction to startup teams, teamwork, and the people side that makes successful startups, based on a review of "state-of-the-art research about startups" (5). The aim is to provide "actionable insights about startup teams; who they are, how they work, and how they stay together" (5). The author conducted a study in the Web of Science research database focusing on new venture teams, startups, and entrepreneurship between 1997-2019. From this, she identifies "three stylized facts" that help keep startup teams together, which deal with team composition, structure and emotion. The focus on homogeneity, change, and emotion is likely to resonate with experienced startup teams, as well as assist new startups, or startups-information to navigate the fastmoving new business relationship territory.
WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks, Mar 23, 2022