The following projects were funded under the BCRC’s Proof of Concept program. This program funds 12-month projects with a maximum budget of $50,000 and has two main purposes. One is to help the researchers (and BCRC) decide whether an unusual research idea is promising enough to develop into a larger, more defined project. The other purpose is to validate practices or technologies that have been discovered through research projects and/or to facilitate the adaptation of technologies utilized in other sectors, commodities or countries. In other words, finding out whether we can adapt someone else’s solution instead of reinventing the wheel for Canada’s beef industry.
Proof of Concept projects are not designed to fully answer a big science question. They’re simply intended as a small investment to find out whether the idea is worth scaling up and pursuing further. These results are intended to be preliminary–if they’re promising, they’re good candidates for a full-fledged research trial. With these projects, even a complete “failure” is really a success, because it means we are able to cut our losses early.
Source : Beef Research