• Identifying novel high-risk/high-payoff ideas
• Nurturing selected ideas towards pre-standardization maturity
• Allocating resources for Vision and Research Projects to advance such ideas
• Understanding and disseminating the essence of innovation
• Establishing journals and conferences related to innovation
• Foster standards-related technical activities
• Foster standards-related educational activities
• Facilitate industry/academia pre/post standardization activities
• Initiate and support standards-related products and service
• Identify early standardization opportunities