Metcalfe’s law posits that the value of a telecoms network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users (n2). Coming after last month’s Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation Summit in Sonoma, California, and you can see why having 450 of the world’s largest corporation’s brightest minds in one venue might create some amazing results.

As Robert Wolcott, co-founder of the Kellogg Innovation Network, itself an impressive forum for collaboration, noted in the summit review, these corporate venturing…