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Exchange between
Virginia Center
for Innovative Technology and BCNGroup
Peter Jobse
President
Virginia Center for Innovative Technology
IDHS Executive Committee
An intellectual argument is being made that CIT has been involved in training individuals to be entrepreneurs of a specific type. The value of this seems reasonably established if one accepts the notion that only entrepreneurs of the type reinforced by Mr. Hamilton are deserving of start-up funding (whether from private or public sources).
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http://www.ontologystream.com/beads/nationalDebate/twentyfour.htm
Dr. Paul S. Prueitt
Director, BCNGroup Inc (Not for profit)
Founder, Ontologystream Inc
Paul,
I have been asked to work this meeting with you. Dates I currently have open are:
Thu Mar 11 (AM)
Fri Mar 12 (PM)
Tue Mar 16 (AM/PM)
Thu Mar 18 (AM/PM)
The focus of the meeting is for me to better understand your technology and understand how you feel CIT can help you with your endeavor.
Let me know what works for you on dates/time.
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Louis McDonald
Director, IT and Telecomm
Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology
Louis,
The meeting could be about three issues, with how can CIT help me the least important.
To illustrate the expected cultural interaction between business and science, I tell a story about a meeting between a scientist and a venture capitalist. I set up the story this way:
Suppose that neither person has met the other but knows that the other is the exemplar of either "scientist/innovator" or "venture capitalist". They know that they will meet on a certain day and yet the purpose of the meeting is not set. When they do meet, they both come into a room at the same time and no one else accompanies them.
I have often asked “So, in this scenario what happens in the meeting?” The answer is most often given that the businessperson speaks first and asks.
“What can I do for you?”
How can CIT help OntologyStream Inc? The scenario suggests that this is the wrong question to begin with.
Clearly in my note to CIT President, Peter Jobse, and in my phone discussion with Institute for Defense and Homeland Security Director Hugh Montgomery, I have suggested that it is the CIT which stands to gain.
The BCNGroup/OntologyStream is attempting to do something for Northern Virginia and the nation. The role that CIT might play is the question I have. To start the discussion in the wrong way is to not define where the value is. It also ignores the previous letter and conversations.
Which is the more powerful of the two, the innovator or the businessman, is already established by the very first exchange.
I can provide an overview of the Ontology referential base (Orb) technology as an example of human-centric information production (HIP) technology. I am more than happy to do this, and have hoped that I could. OntologyStream Inc, dataRenewal Inc and InOrb Inc each have specific financial issues that have to do with start-up process. But these issues are not what is on the agenda, from my point of view.
1) I propose a discussion about the general nature of innovation adoption and the need for a more sophisticated model where evaluation is based on principled evaluation of the potential contribution and not forced to be defined as a value for the business community to exploit.
1.1 We suggest a shift away from "who do you know" to “what do you have”
1.2 We would examine the negative role of the NDA compared with open discussion with selective NDA, only when really necessary.
1.3 We would examine the negative role of patent aggregation compared with public release of patent applications.
2) I propose a discussion of the proposed National Project to establish a Knowledge Science curriculum.