Dr. Lynne Siemens is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She is focused on economic and community development in rural areas with a specific focus on ways that rural small businesses and entrepreneurs address the opportunities and challenges that exist by virtue of their geographic location. Serving as a management advisor, she is also part of Implementing New Knowledge Environments project and studying INKE to trace the development of a collaboration as it is underway, rather than as reflection at a project’s end. She regularly publishes on academic collaboration and entrepreneurship and teaches a workshop on project management at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute.