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# Quickstart: Innovation boards
- URL: https://www.pesec.no/quickstart-innovation-boards/
- Published: 2024-12-02T07:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-02T07:55:19.000Z
- Description: Practical guidance for busy professionals.
- Author: Bruno Pešec
- Tags: Quickstart, Innovation, Strategy, #Innovation Management

Innovation boards, sometimes also called venture or growth boards, are special-purpose governing bodies with mandate to invest into innovative projects and ventures.

Here is how to start right now:

1. First read *"*[*Getting started with an Innovation Board*](https://www.pesec.no/getting-started-with-an-innovation-board/)*"* to understand what is needed to establish and operate an innovation board.
2. Then watch *"*[*How to run effective corporate venture boards*](https://www.pesec.no/how-to-run-effective-corporate-venture-boards/)*"* (40 minutes) to learn who should be on the board, what is their key task, mistakes to avoid, and questions the board should consider during evaluation.
3. Lastly, read *"*[*The 9 Mistakes Venture Boards Make*](https://innovationaccountingbook.com/blog/the-9-mistakes-venture-boards-make/?ref=pesec.no)*"* by Dan Toma and make note of all mistakes listed so you can avoid them. Learning from other peoples mistakes and all that.

Above is a two hour investment that will pay the dividends—even if you never establish an innovation board and just use the insight I shared to improve your current decision making regarding innovative projects and ventures.