An Overview of Four Issues on Technology Entrepreneurship in the TIM Review

Technology entrepreneurship is an investment in a pro-ject that assembles and deploys specialized individuals and heterogeneous assets that are intricately related to advances in scientific and technological knowledge for the purpose of creating and capturing value for a firm (Bailetti, 2012; timreview.ca/article/520). Technology entre-preneurship applies equally well to newly formed or es-tablished firms as well as firms of any size. The study of technology entrepreneurship serves an im-portant function beyond satisfying intellectual curios-ity. Technology entrepreneurship is necessary for growth, differentiation, and competitive advantage at the firm, regional, and national levels (Bailetti, 2012). In early September 2011, a request for articles on tech-nology entrepreneurship was issued to the faculty, staff, doctoral and master students, and professionals associ-ated with Carleton University’s Technology Innovation Management program (carleton.ca/tim) with the intent of producing a special issue of the TIM Review on the theme of technology entrepreneurship. Given the over-whelming response to this request and the perceived importance of the topic, four consecutive issues focus-ing on technology entrepreneurship were published in early 2012. In this article, the 20 journal articles published in the February, March, April and May 2012 issues of the TIM Review – and listed in Table 1 – are classified based on the subject matter and main objective of the article. Next, four salient aspects of the set of 20 journal articles are discussed. Finally, the last section provides our con-clusions.