How to Know When Your Great Idea is Ready for the World

How to Know When Your Great Idea is Ready for the World
Tim Kastelle, The Discipline of Innovation, May 5, 2014
Over the last couple years as I have been more involved in things like business plans the abbreviation TRL made an increasingly frequent appearance. It stands for 'Technology Readiness Level' and is a scale devised by NASA and the US Department of Defence to rank innovations; it ranges from 1 - 'basic principle observed and reported' - through to 9 - 'flight tested'. More...