# What are the different roles in an innovation org? # What are the different roles in an innovation org * Program Inception (Vision) * Funding * Budgeting * Coordination * Risk Bearer * Control Locuses * Go/no-go * Which action needs to be taken * Performing ### Venture Research In venture research program inception comes from the researchers. Funding comes from BP itself. ### DARPA ### Bell Labs [[“The System” of AT&T]] generates problems, that are seen by all levels of Bell Labs. But often the story looks like a manager going out and hiring someone because they think they’ll be good. Either that person notices a problem and creates the idea of a program to go after it or a manager will say “why don’t you go look at this problem.” The single firm nature of bell labs allowed them The funding came primarily from AT&T and the member telephone companies. [[Bell Labs was not a business]] ### Related * [[Feedback loops matter even if there is no control explicitly being exerted]] * [[When is push or pull appropriate for innovation orgs?]] * [[DARPA Program managers pull control and risk away from both researchers and directors]] * [[DARPA does multiple levels of top-down problem generation and bottom-up solution generation]] * [[Venture Research, Bell Labs, and DARPA form non-orthogonal basis vectors over the space of innovation organizations]] * [[In an innovation org, the person bearing the risk needs to feel extreme ownership over an idea]] [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/What+are+the+different+roles+in+an+innovation+org) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/What+are+the+different+roles+in+an+innovation+org)