The business model of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) laboratories – A triple-layered perspective

You, Weimu; Chen, Weifeng; Agyapong, Michael; Mordi, Chima

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120205

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“…Since the emergence of DIY laboratories, a significant number of scientists have engaged in DIY experimental work. As a result, a growing number of subsidiaries that are linked with DIY laboratories have emerged in various parts of the world (You et al 2020). These DIY labs usually operate under different names such as DIYbio labs, Hackerspaces and Fab Labs.…”

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“…The data regarding American DIY labs reveal that 57% of American adults comprising 135 million people are engaged with DIY labs and considered as makers (Stone 2015). The number of participants attending the events of Maker Fairs (an event to celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the DIY mind-set) surged to 83,000 in 2009 (You et al 2020).…”

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Challenges and competencies of entrepreneurial leaders in driving innovation at DIY laboratories

Ahmed

Harrison

2021

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

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Do-It-Yourself laboratories (DIY labs) are autonomous community-based science research spaces that facilitate creative experiments independently in an unstructured location. The research on do-ityourself (DIY) laboratories is emerging and there remain various questions to answer about the structure, leadership style, innovation strategies and environmental and public safety policies of DIYs. Keeping in view various challenges of DIY labs, this study theoretically highlights the challenges of DIY labs and competencies required for DIY leaders in coping with challenges and driving innovation. Drawing on existing literature of entrepreneurial leadership competencies, this paper proposes a comprehensive entrepreneurial leadership competency model comprising of personal, functional, interpersonal, technological, ethical and environmental competencies. This study offers insights into the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and DIY innovation, thus laying a foundation for further research in this domain. The competency model proposed in this study helps individuals to understand and learn the capabilities of becoming more effective DIY entrepreneurial leaders and foster innovation and creativity in DIY labs.

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Challenges and competencies of entrepreneurial leaders in driving innovation at DIY laboratories

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Harrison

2021

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“…When there is a sufficient supply of information across platforms, secondary data have been established as a valid source of main data (Ranta et al 2018;Ritala, Golnam, and Wegmann 2014). Specifically, in the domain of DIY laboratory research, You et al (2020) studied the business model of three types of DIY laboratories using solely secondary data. Furthermore, data triangulation can be increased when an extensive set of data from various data sources has been used (Ranta et al 2018).…”

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“…Once an understanding of the types of people that found DIY laboratories is formed, all parties of the Triple Helix model (i.e. government, business, and university) can then help these founders to facilitate the innovations and new businesses these DIY laboratories aim to develop (You et al 2020).…”

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What it takes to make it: profile and characteristics of DIY bio laboratory founders

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Valkjärvi

Ofosu

2021

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As important antecedents of the emerging DIY laboratory movement, the aspects of profiles and characteristics of those pioneers who establish DIY laboratories have remained under-researched in extant literature. In order to address this issue and explore common profiles and characteristics of DIY laboratory founders, by employing content analysis, this paper analyses secondary data on 23 founders/co-founders of eight DIY bio laboratories that are publicly available (DIYbio.org). The results reveal that a common profile of a DIY bio laboratory founder is someone most likely to be highly educated (often times PhD), with experience and expertise in the field of science and has strong ideological beliefs. Additionally, the founders/co-founders have characteristics of entrepreneurship, research, ideology and community that strongly advocate for open source sharing of scientific information and for the democratisation of science.

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“…The triple-layered canvas is recognized as a significant contribution to the field of sustainable business model innovation [48]. In fact, both scholars and practitioners have already paid attention to the development of business model innovation through the triple-layered canvas, because it is a practical tool with a small learning curve, contributing to the development, visualization and communication of sustainable innovations in the business model [49].…”

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Towards Sustainable Innovative Business Models

2021

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This paper addresses two research questions: (1) How do firms innovate their business models to deal with the economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability, and their interconnections? (2) How do managers design the process toward more sustainable innovative business models? Starting from the triple-layered canvas as a theoretical framework, a pattern matching technique is used to compare that theoretical pattern to the empirical pattern observed. The study is based on qualitative methods and data from a Spanish company in the wine sector. The findings indicate that the triple-layered canvas is applicable and useful for micro firms, although the process to design sustainable innovative business models might be even more important. A new theoretical model is inferred and proposed to incorporate the perspective of the process of the business model innovations for sustainability, and to add several relevant aspects to make the process more successful. Besides this, non-family firms introducing sustainable business model innovations in their economic, ecological, and social aspects move closer to family firms’ distinctive behavior. Finally, the implications and future lines of research are summarized.

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The business model of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) laboratories – A triple-layered perspective

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Challenges and competencies of entrepreneurial leaders in driving innovation at DIY laboratories

Challenges and competencies of entrepreneurial leaders in driving innovation at DIY laboratories

What it takes to make it: profile and characteristics of DIY bio laboratory founders

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