Finance for Innovation

It may not be obvious, but the most difficult part of the process of innovation is not the technical problems that must be overcome. The difficulty is in persuading non-technical persons such as financiers that the underlying vision in the mind of the inventor is realisable, that the financial risks are acceptable and that the potential profit is large enough to justify that risk.

Further Information

	Invention, Innovation and Finance
	January 2001.
"Invention" is not an eccentric sideline activity to the mainstream of life, as it is often thoughtlessly portrayed. Inventors are not oddballs that we can do without. Invention is the very process by which the human brain changes the nature of human existence. Read more...
	Bridging the Funding Gap
Some proposals as to a means by which HMG may help its innovators to cross the notorious "funding gap" that often stifles technical innovation at a critical stage in its path to success. Read more...
	Financial Backing for Boffins
	Extract from correspondence
It is surely true that most people are frightened away from Science and Technology by media hype which portrays scientists in general as mad individuals or bumbling boffins - and an extraordinary number of people really believe this is true! Read more...

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