The Virginia Smart Community Testbed, located in Stafford, Virginia, USA, is a sharedknowledge platform for innovators and entrepreneurs to access prime technology for developing their projects. The testbed not only facilitates access to relevant technology, but also provides innovators and entrepreneurs access to communities and local governments for testing their projects.

The Virginia Smart Community Testbed is an example of collaboration between all levels of government and partners from the private sector in leveraging tangible and intangible resources. It adopts a bottom-up approach in connecting local startups and entrepreneurs to experts and local communities, setting them up for success.