[okfn-discuss] incubator.okfn.org

[John Bywater]

Hi Jonathan,

 From my experience with TTP Ventures (a venture capital group in 
Cambridge), it might be good to establish the incubation process. These 
aspects seem unavoidable:

1. Define the scope of the incubator, to discriminate acceptability of 
proposed projects.

2. Maintain an inventory, or a register of all projects.

3. Establish offered stages of incubation, the basic project development 
services that can be offered to embryonic projects.

4. Establish an investment board and community, to advise and decide on 
project proposals, to plan and track investment in each project case, 
and to decide on project exits.

5. Establish modes of solicitation of new project proposals.

6. Decide operating period, resource budget, target outcomes, reviews.

Hope that helps!

John.



Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Just to follow this up, here is something a bit like what I would hope
> for in the longer term with OKF incubator, at the University of
> Edinburgh...
> 
> "IDEA lab is a virtual laboratory that will facilitate prototyping of
> novel applications of state-of-art informatic technologies. IDEA lab
> will enable and support multidisciplinary "proof-of-principle
> prototyping" (POPP) projects that develop and use informatic tools and
> techniques to: (i) collect and manage data, (ii) discover and
> visualise structures and relationships; (iii) model, simulate and
> analyse processes, (iv) facilitate collaboration and create
> communities." [1]