WELCOME

This is your gateway to proof of concept (PoC) venturing reality.

My mission is to engage you - the managers of proof of concept centers, innovation accelerators, internal corporate venturing initiatives, regional economic development planners, and government official constructing policy to increase technological competitiveness. My methods will be to take apart and reconstruct these important PoC topics:

• Specifying elements of and installing a PoC Center


• its management and operations


• defining benchmarks, best practices and causes of success and failure


• collecting and managing mentors/advisors to innovators
  
• establishing criteria for, securing and disbursement of operational and project funding


• linking and reporting of PoC news, articles and reports
  
• offering my observations, opinions and experienced wisdom in how-to, historical story, and essay format
  
• building and facilitating a vigorous and involved global PoC manager network

Sounds like a sweeping epic journey – well, it may very well be just that. Please join your fellow managers to comment on all you find interesting on these pages.