Investigating adoption of free beta applications in a platform‐based business ecosystem

SJ Mäkinen, J Kanniainen… - Journal of Product …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Planning new product development (NPD) activities is becoming increasingly difficult, as
contemporary businesses compete at the level of business ecosystems in addition to the firm …

Identifying and forecasting the reverse salient in video game consoles: A performance gap ratio comparative analysis

T Daim, J Justice, L Hogaboam, SJ Mäkinen… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2014 - Elsevier
This study uses the reverse salient methodology to contrast subsystems in video game
consoles in order to discover, characterize, and forecast the most significant technology gap …

A view on science-based start-ups as innovation ecosystems: Exploring functions of basic mechanisms

SJ Mäkinen - … IEEE International Conference on Management of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The present paper has made an exploratory investigation into whether mechanistic view on
the science-based start-up generation can be considered fruitful avenue for future research …

Forecasting competition between disruptive and sustaining technologies in business ecosystems

SJ Mäkinen, O Dedehayir - Proceedings of PICMET'14 …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contemporary business environment is increasingly built around business ecosystems that
combine multiple stakeholders utilizing multiple technologies. Measures assessing …