idea business

make a company that finds good business ideas, proves feasibility, does market research and builds the foundations for operations/profitability.. just enough to get risk reduced and information centralized so that it can be sold to companies who might be able to benefit from such a thing. consider doing this on a contract basis as a service - start with an idea and contract for its study, or find areas where companies might be willing to buy ideas and do research there. Question: is this an area where we (i.e. one company) can have a competitive advantage even over a broad range of industries/markets? are there enough companies that would want to outsource this? this seems like a creative bazaar model of collaborative innovation.