• Find the Gold

  The "gold" in the New Global Energy Economy can be found in scientific and technological breakthroughs largely, although not exclusively, embodied in intellectual property at the "inter-tidal" between fields. As in the oceans this is the most fertile, the most generative zone. Energy Voyager's deep databases in bio fuels, green coal, and distributed storage, coupled to our Collaborative Open Innovation Platform is designed explicitly to help you mine the gold.

  Collaborative Inventive Question: What might be some important inventions are the inter-tidal of green coal and biofuels, or distributed storage/biofuels, and so forth?

• Peripheral Vision = Competitive Advantage

  "Open Innovation" enable companies to make the best use of internal and external knowledge to launch new products and services in a timely way (See Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation 2006). Peripheral Vision gives companies advance notice of the voice of the customer, market trends, competitor's inventions and patent filings, best alliance partners, timely sources of finance, and other essential ingredients of competitive advantage. (See George S. Day and Paul J.H.Schoemaker, Peripheral Vision, 2006) Even the U.S. Office of Intelligence appreciates the value of collaborative intelligence in its recent disclose of Intellipedia - the collaborative national intelligence network

  Energy Voyager has special expertise through its International Knowledge Trust in three challenging markets of critical importance to companies interested in clean and alternative energy-China, Japan, and India. These strategic areas will be our focus.

  What are the most interesting questions for our business participants regarding trends in the green coal, biofuels, and distributed storage industries in China, Japan, and India?

• Time-to-Market

  An important goal of collaboration is to collapse the time between discoveries and inventions and their commercial realization. How optimally to combine "technology push" and "market pull" strategies in building high performance green consortia has been the central challenge of the EPRI Collaborative Innovation Network in distributed storage. The above strategy can be significantly enhanced by systematically and collaboratively building IP Portfolios as explained here.

• Power to the People = Personally Make a Difference

  The next big breakthrough in addressing the destructive potential of climate change is finding ways to harness the creative energies of the consumer with the power of the market. Energy Voyager in collaboration with the Green Technology Institute is launching a collaborative project to invent a system of micro-credits where by every person around the world who is determined to do his or her part to reduce to CO2 and other harmful greenhouse gases can earn a tradable "micro-credit" which can be aggregated and cashed in within one of the major global exchanges. Our two organizations are reaching out the most imaginative and far sighted presidential candidates in the United States and other innovative politicians to work with us in practically implementing this idea this year. California, under the leadership of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, offers an excellent beta site

  Some important questions: Can micro-credits be immediately implemented or is enabling "cap and trade" regulations required? Do sufficient incentives exist under existing laws and regulations or must new ones be enacted? How shall the enabling software be best developed and in what format? What is the fastest way to test and implement this idea?

• Train the Mind, Grow the Brain

  “Neuroplasticity” writes, Sharon Begley, science editor of the Wall Street Journal, is the capacity of nerve cells in the brain and elsewhere in the body to respond to and grow from external stimuli and even thoughts. (See Sharon Begley, Train the Mind, Change the Brain 2006). It will be interesting to explore such questions as:

  • How optimally to balance vision and imagination with effective execution? As the integrity of the network, meaning its robustness or adaptive vitality increases, what will be its impact on the brain/minds of each participant? (See Julian Gresser, Piloting Through Chaos, 1996).
  • If individual thought forms have neurological consequences in a single brain, what are the implications if large numbers of people join together — especially if they are inspired by a global sense of urgency, where each person has the satisfaction of making a meaningful and significant contribution?
  • How might Energy Voyager's collaborative networks be significantly enhanced by the advent of optoelectronic computing—computers that can process information, packaged in light, in vastly more powerful ways?

In addition to the above Energy Voyager is especially interested in the following strategic areas:

• "CO2 Sequestration Technologies
• High Efficiency, Integrated, Distributed Green Power Systems, including complete closed cycle systems

We hope to engage the most imaginative and far sighted members of the financial community to work with us in all of the above areas. There is a critical need to bring financial skills and resources to entrepreneurs and innovators so that truly important inventions rapidly reach these emerging international markets.

• Step #1: Please sign up (takes about 3 minutes)
• Step #2: Please join the Networks of interest. (Takes about 1 minute.) At present they include the BioFuels Network, Green Coal Network, and the Distributed Storage Network. We will be adding others over the next few months.
• Step # 3: Research Mode: One effective way to proceed is to browse through the extensive data bases and when you hit upon an interesting idea, then deploy our 60 search engines to probe more deeply. You may want to use some of the above invention areas and themes to guide your inquiry. When you find some useful news or links, you simply return to your home page and save these links or new items by clicking the indicated buttons-"My News or My Links" and the items of importance will automatically be saved.
• Step # 4: Collaborative Mode: If you are interested in communicating your discoveries, you simply write out and send your blog (under "My Blog") to other members in your network. You can also enable other members in your network automatically to read your blogs. (Simply click "Subscribe to Member's Blog")
• Step #5: Publication Mode: If you would like to publish your blog to your entire network, you simply click "Everyone" under the Level of Visibility menu. If you would like Energy Voyager to publish your story on the overall web site, you simply send in your story (Please click "My Story") to web manager and we will let you know our thoughts and suggestions promptly.

An important feature is you can build your own private network and create your own mini-Collaborative Business Intelligence Network (CBIN) and Collaborative Innovation Network (COIN) directly on the site. These networks are entirely private and protected. Indeed, they can even be closed, if you desire, to Energy Voyager personnel. We are happy to work with and support your own programmers in building your proprietary CBINS and COINS using our sixty available search engines. We also have in place a shared revenue model by which together your organization and ours can generate revenues based on per seat subscriptions. Please contact our CTO, Bill Moulton, to discuss these opportunities and options.

• Personal and Group Wiki-Wiki is the primary collaborative technology which Intellipedia uses. Energy Voyager's Green Energy Wiki will enable our participants to prepare their own collective, online in depth data base.
• Trending: Enhanced Global Energy News with Graphical Trending.

How can these collaborative platforms be made even more useful, friendly, intuitive, for you? Our goal in the next 6 months is to work with each member to make Energy Voyager's collaborative platforms the most valuable resource on clean and alternative energy available anywhere in the world. Please send in your "dreamland version" of how creative collaboration should ideally be achieved, along with your practical critique, comments, and recommendations. Our aim is to listen deeply and to learn. We will post your thoughts so that others can co-create with us. Please send your feedback here.