TIM Review November 2013 Edition

The theme of this issue is Living Labs, with guest editors, Seppo Leminen, Principal Lecturer at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the School of Business at Aalto University in Finland, and Mika Westerlund, Assistant Professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, Canada. The theme we covered in our popular September 2012 issue on Living Labs is re-visited. Since the September 2012, the concept of living labs has kept evolving and has become accepted by more and more practitioners and researchers. This issue of TIM Review provides

Value co-creation: Best of TIM Review Book 3 Launched

Value co-creation has emerged as a multifaceted innovation, marketing, and business paradigm describing how customers and end users can become active participants in the design and development of personalized products, services, and experiences. The term has acquired a wide use in both business and academic circles to the extent that it has become quite fashionable to speak about co-creation and very often in ways that actually have nothing to do with customers and end users.

Value co-creation: Best of TIM Review Book 3 Launched

Why Global Starts Change Everything

Sprott Topics: Prof. Tony Bailetti lecture “Why Global Starts Change Everything”

Investors pay more for global starts – technology startups that grow early and rapidly outside of their home markets. How does a technology startup become a global start? What are the main differences between conventional technology ventures and global starts? This talk describes the lessons learned from launching Canada’s first cohort of global starts.

The Code Factory presents SNS-15 Students & Startups

Are you a Startup looking to hire in the next 3 months?

TheCodeFactory will be hosting the fifteenth edition of Students and Startups on November 28. This edition of SNS-15 will be for startups looking to hire technical talent. The event is fun, friendly and informal with success measured using the key metrics of hires and smiles. Thus far The Code Factory has hosted 14 events with 28 hires and 300 smiles.

For more details on the event or to register, please email info@thecodefactory.ca.

Upcoming Opportunity Reviews

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Review Date	Application Deadline
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014	Friday, January 25th, 2014
Thursday, February 20th, 2014	Friday, February 14th, 2014
Thursday, March 20th, 2014	Friday, March 14th, 2014
Wednesday, April 17th, 2014	Friday, April 12th, 2014

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