Digital Innovation

About the Editor

Anne-Laure Mention is the Director of the Global Business Innovation Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. She is also a Professor at the School of Management at RMIT, Melbourne; a Visiting Professor at Université de Liège, Belgium; the Deputy Head of the Centre d'Evaluation de la Performance des Entreprises; and a Visiting Professor at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. She holds several other visiting positions in Europe and Asia. Anne-Laure is one of the founding editors of the Journal of Innovation Management, and the Deputy Head of the ISPIM Advisory Board. She is the co-editor of a book series Open Innovation: Bridging Theory and Practice, published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Her research interests revolve around open and collaborative innovation, innovation in business to business services, with a particular focus on financial industry and fintech, technology management and business venturing. She has been awarded the prestigious IBM Faculty Award twice for her research on innovation

About the Contributors

Hardik Bhimani is an Economic Strategist with over 10 years of expertise in corporate negotiations, digital change management and executive leadership. Hardik conducts multi-disciplinary and multi-method research at the intersection of psychology and management, with a focus on strategic cognition. His current projects explore cognitive processes in open innovation and socio-cognitive influences to decisions in sustainable supply chain management. Hardik is a regular contributor at International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM). He is also associated with the managerial cognition and open innovation interest groups at the Academy of Management (AoM) and behavioral strategy interest group at the Strategic Management Society (SMS). Hardik is pursuing a PhD in Management (Open Innovation) at RMIT University and is concurrently training for Organizational Psychologist registration in Australia. Hardik teaches strategy and economics courses and has recently accepted RMIT's Good Teaching award in recognition of his student engagement and practical theorizing.

Marcel Bogers is an Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Copenhagen. He works at the Unit for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Science. He obtained an MSc from Eindhoven University of Technology and a PhD in Management of Technology from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). He previously worked (in permanent or visiting positions) at Chalmers University of Technology, University of Trento and University of Southern Denmark. His main interests center on the design, organization and management of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. More specifically, his research explores openness and participation in innovation and entrepreneurial processes within, outside and between organizations. In this context, he has studied issues such as open innovation, business models, family businesses, users as innovators, collaborative, prototyping, improvisation and university–industry collaboration.

Terrence E. Brown is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, where he is the Head of the Industrial Marketing and Entrepreneurship Division. He is the founding Editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing. Terrence holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Strategy from Rutgers University, which he completed in 1996. He also holds an MBA from Rutgers (obtained in 1994) as well as a second MBA from The Wharton School (obtained in 1986). He also holds an AB (Honors) from Brown University, which he obtained in 1984. Terrence is the former Dean of the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. He has also been a Visiting Professor at EBS Business School, Germany since 2005. He was also a Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Jönköping International Business School. His primary research area is value creation through the formation, management, rapid growth and rejuvenation of business enterprises. Terrence is a highly sought after speaker and has lectured throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen is the Data Coordinator in the Scientific Information Service at CERN. Together with her colleagues, she builds services to enable researchers to practice Open Science and to take steps towards reproducible research. Before she joined CERN, she worked for the Helmholtz Association in Germany. She holds a PhD in Information Science from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

Julius Francis Gomes is pursuing his PhD in International Business from the Oulu Business School, University of Oulu. His research focuses on futuristic business models for digital-intensive industries from the point of view of using business models as a mean to look into future of industries and understand business ecosystems. He is interested in researching business ecosystems in different contexts like cyber security, healthcare, telecommunications network, etc. with a business model perspective. He received his MSc in 2015 in International Business from the University of Oulu. Prior to that, he acquired an MBA in 2011, specializing in managing information systems in business applications. He has also enjoyed about three years in a top-tier bank in Bangladesh as a Channel Innovator.

John Gilchrist is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University School of Law. He studied Arts and Law at Monash University, and holds postgraduate degrees and qualifications from Monash University, the Queensland University of Technology, the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. Dr Gilchrist has been involved with intellectual property as a policy and practicing lawyer and as an academic over a period of four decades. He began his professional life as a solicitor in the Australian Attorney General's Department and later with the Australian Government Solicitor's Office. His practical experience covers intellectual property (both in its international and national aspects), major government contracting and other commercial law fields. As a young lawyer, he was the Secretary of the Copyright Law Committee on Reprographic Reproduction (the Franki Committee) and more recently a member of the Copyright Law Review Committee on its Crown Copyright reference. He has published numerous articles on government copyright issues and is the author of the monograph The Government and Copyright published by Sydney University Press (2015), and the co-editor (and contributor), along with Professor Brian Fitzgerald, of the book Copyright Perspectives, published by Springer in the same year.

Marika Iivari is a Postdoctoral Researcher within Martti Ahtisaari Institute at AACSB-accredited Oulu Business School, Finland. She defended her doctoral dissertation on business models, open innovation and ecosystems. Her research has focused on inter-organizational and inter-industrial open innovation, public–private–people collaboration, and strategic management and governance of innovation ecosystems. Her special expertise is within future digital business and the digitalization of healthcare domain, the Internet of Things and ICT ecosystems, and smart cities as innovation platforms. Currently, she is serving as a Business Model Expert in the Digital Transition Partnership on the Urban Agenda for the EU.

Kati Lassila-Perini is a Project Leader at Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland, and coordinates the Data Preservation and Open Access project in the CMS Experiment at CERN since its start in 2012. She is an experimental particle physicist with a PhD from ETHZ, Switzerland, with the subject of the discovery potential of the Higgs boson at the CMS Experiment. Kati is the prime mover in the open data release of CMS, and she has a particular interest in learning and teaching, and is happy to see the CMS open data in use in research, outreach and in education.

Sébastien Martin holds a Master's degrees in Urban Planning, History and Information Systems. Currently a PhD student in the field of Digital Humanities, he works on open data since 2012, with a particular interest on issues of barriers, ecosystems and value generation from open data. As an open data researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, he is also involved in the BE-GOOD initiative.

Thomas McCauley started in particle astrophysics, getting his PhD from Northeastern University on the Pierre Auger experiment studying ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. He then moved to the IceCube experiment as a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2006, he joined CMS and is now a member of the University of Notre Dame group where he is also a member of QuarkNet, a research-based teacher professional development program. Tom works on data visualization, web applications, open data, public education and outreach and is looking for supersymmetry.

Anne-Laure Mention is the Director of the Global Business Innovation Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. She is also a Professor at the School of Management at RMIT, Melbourne; a Visiting Professor at Université de Liège, Belgium; the Deputy Head of the Centre d'Evaluation de la Performance des Entreprises; and a Visiting Professor at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. She holds several other visiting positions in Europe and Asia. Anne-Laure is one of the founding editors of the Journal of Innovation Management, and the Deputy Head of the ISPIM Advisory Board. She is the co-editor of a book series Open Innovation: Bridging Theory and Practice, published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Her research interests revolve around open and collaborative innovation, innovation in business to business services, with a particular focus on financial industry and fintech, technology management and business venturing. She has been awarded the prestigious IBM Faculty Award twice for her research on innovation

Bernardo Nicoletti is a Lecturer at the Università di TorVergata Rome, Italy and Temple University, Rome Campus. He serves as a Director in Transigma Emea, a strategy consultancy company specialized in process improvements and digitization in financial services with global assignments. Bernardo has been active in the financial services industry for several years. He applies an innovative approach of Lean and Digitize in his consultancy and has described the methodology in a book by Gower Press. His most recent books are Mobile Banking, Financial Services and Cloud Computing, Digital Insurance and The Future of Fintech , published by Palgrave-Macmillan. Bernardo worked with GE Capital as the Program Manager, as Group CTO of GE Capital, and with AIG as the CIO of Latin America.

Minna Pikkarainen is a joint Connected Health Professor of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and University of Oulu, Oulu Business School, Martti Ahtisaari Institute and Faculty of Medicine. As a Professor of Connected Health, Minna has been focusing on multi-disciplinary research on innovation management and ecosystemic business models in the context of connected health service cocreation. The research has been done together with VTT, Oulu University teams, companies, Oulu University Hospital and Central Finland University Hospital in the areas of preventive Mydata-based healthcare services, future pediatric surgery process and emergency care. During 2010–2012, Minna Pikkarainen was working as a Business Developer in Institute Mines Telecom, Paris and European Innovation Technology (EIT) network in Helsinki. Her key focus areas as a business developer was in healthcare organizations and digital cities. Previously, Minna's research was focused on the areas of software development, agile development and service innovation.

Jukka Ranta is a Researcher at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He has a licentiate of science degree in engineering from Helsinki University of Technology, with a major in systems analysis and operations research. His work has included industrial process simulation modeling and production planning, numerical optimal control, and safety of programmable automation systems. His current research interests include both qualitative and quantitative simulation modeling of socio-technical systems with emphasis on healthcare.

Achintya Rao is a science communicator working at CERN as a writer and web editor, currently also pursuing a PhD in science communication from UWE Bristol in the UK. At CERN, he has worked with CERN's IT and Scientific Information services as well as the CMS Collaboration's scientists to build and operate the CERN Open Data portal. He is particularly interested in the use of free and open-source software in the research process, and advocates for researchers moving away from proprietary tools as much as is possible.

Samuel Renault is a Researcher at the IT for Innovative Services (ITIS) department of the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). He holds an engineering degree in Information Systems Architecture from the National Institute of Applied Science of Rouen, France. He is acting alternatively as an R&D Engineer, Data Scientist, Project Manager and Product Manager in the field of Procurement for various sectors including Logistics. In recent projects, he has developed and implemented a strategy for logistics-related data acquisition, transformation and representation. Samuel holds certifications and has experience in project management (HSPTP) and process assessment (TIPA^® Lead assessor).

Jeffrey Roy is a Professor in the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University's Faculty of Management. He is a widely published observer and critic of the impacts of digital technologies on government and democracy. He has worked with the United Nations, the OECD, multinational corporations and all levels of government in Canada. He has produced more than 80 peer- reviewed articles and chapters, and his most recent book was published in 2013 by Springer, From Machinery to Mobility: Government and Democracy in a Participative Age. Among other bodies, his research has been funded by the IBM Center for the Business of Government and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He may be reached at [email protected].

Tibor Šimko holds the PhD degree in Plasma Physics from the Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia and from the University of Paris Sud, France. He works as a Computing Engineer at CERN where he founded the Invenio digital repository framework and worked as a Technology Director of INSPIRE, the high-energy physics information system. Tibor currently works as the Technical Lead of the CERN Analysis Preservation, the CERN Open Data and the REANA Reusable Analyses projects. Tibor's professional interests include open science and reproducible research, information management and retrieval, software architecture and development, psychology of programming, free software culture and more.

Serdar Temiz is a PhD candidate at the Industrial Marketing and Entrepreneurship Division of Industrial Economics and Management Department of KTH, Royal Institute of Technology and part of European Institute of Innovation and Technologies Doctoral program on ICT Innovation (eitictlabs.eu). His current research focuses on value creation with open data and he also does research on open innovation, open data, entrepreneurship, business models, virtual/mobile platforms, blockchain. He is the Chairman of Open Knowledge Sweden and also Open Knowledge Foundation's official representative as an Ambassador in Sweden. Open Knowledge Foundation is a worldwide non-profit network of people passionate about openness, using advocacy, technology and training to unlock information and enable people to work with it to create and share knowledge. Serdar has several years of experience as a technical assistant, software developer, telecom software engineer, system analyst, business developer, trainer and consultant. He is teaching/training/consulting topics that are related to entrepreneurship, innovation and technology at his own firm.

Slim Turki holds a Doctorate in Information Systems from the University of Geneva, Switzerland and in Computer Science from the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France. As an open data researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, his work is focused on data-driven services for smart cities. Since 2016, he is involved in BE-GOOD (Building an Ecosystem to Generate Opportunities in Open Data, Interreg NWE, http://www.nweurope.eu/begood) as the Lead Technical Partner. He has been involved in many national and international projects addressing multiple business sectors, such as financial services, e-government, tourism, mobility, education, employment and social services. He developed a solid experience in service analysis, design, re-engineering and compliance to regulations.

Peter Ylén is a Principal Scientist in the business, innovation and foresight research area at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He has worked at VTT since 2005 and before that as a Managing Director and Research Director in private sector as well as Researcher and Professor at Aalto University and University of Vaasa, respectively. His scientific interests are in system theory, service science, business ecosystems, systems thinking and system dynamics, modeling and simulation. He has worked in several healthcare sector EU projects,such as MIDAS (healthcare data and analytics), TBICare and Center TBI (traumatic brain injury) as well as nationally funded projects concentrating in topics including precision medicine ecosystem, cancer diagnostics, digital tools for preventive health and future hospital.

Sample Chapter(s)
Introduction: Open Data as an Enterprising Revolution: Opinions and Insights