A Structured Framework to Transform America's Mission Innovation
The United States and its mission innovation ecosystem incurs many challenges that result in less than success in vital technology races.
The government has challenges recruiting the next generation of brilliant minds, the laboratories are unable to effectively license their vast portfolios of research, entrepreneurs run out of time and money before their solutions reach the market acceptance, and many government contractors fail to realize material shareholder value improvements - all despite their shared best efforts.
Over the past 20 years, the IFMI team of champions have been performing parallel activities, analyzing the failures and best practices of the workforce development, recruiting, commercialization, and venture viability.
These requirements, issues and best practices are carefully explored in the four complimentary books below. And all of these require a "super facilitator" to help the Scholars, the Facilitators and the Venture Managers make advance research to impact.
Holistic Best Practices in Mission Innovation
The Active Investors Methodology for Maximizing Stakeholder Value in Mission Innovation
Harness the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovative solutions through dynamic team workshops.
The Mission Innovation Challenge
A full exploration of the challenges facing American and its mission innovation communities.
Calling for the Scholars, Scientists, Engineers and Technologists.
Demonstrating how a career path in mission innovation can go from "Why?!" to "Wow!"
Best Practices for the Facilitators
Best practices in establishing the full understanding of the regions resources and demands for mission innovation - and how-to guides to effect partnerships that result in best outcomes.
Best Practices for the Venture Manager
For the executives, entrepreneurs and investors who participate in mission innovation. A set of how-to-guides that frame the discussion in macro and micro-economic terms to demonstrate the pathways to maximize ROI for all stakeholders.
The Mission Innovation Facilitator
Managed Infrastructure Services
Provides the required compliant and secure infrastructure needed to support mission innovation stakeholders.
Workforce Development & Innovation Services
Provides access to required equipment, education, customer requirements, product solutioning, and venture expertise.
Outreach Support Services
Provides access to the people with business acumen, influence and access to capital, customers, contracts, and talent.
Collaboration Environments & Events
Provides the places and events where the innovators can collaborate with all of the partners they need.
Solutioning Mission Innovation
The Person
Without the holistic training, the motivated student, executive, entrepreneur and investor runs into pitfalls that damage their careers and financial positions. The required miracle needed to get from great idea to successful deployment is too high to go alone.
The Intellectual Property & Solution
While the US Government leads the globe in research & development of advanced capabilities, the commercialization process from IP creation to licensing to build to testing to market adoption is broken. Changing the mindset from closed IP protection to open collaboration frees the intellectual property to be truly developed.
The Organization
The traditional mission innovation startup runs out of time and funding - nearly every single time. The venture studio methodology takes the best practices of corporate research and venture capital and applies it to mission innovation.