Harvard Innovation Lab opens
Harvard University officially launches the Harvard Innovation Lab today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and remarks by President Drew Faust, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, and Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. The ceremony will be followed by an open house and self-guided tours of the Allston facility. The Innovation Lab, or i-lab, is designed to foster team-based and entrepreneurial activities and to deepen interactions among students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and the Boston community. It supports Menino’s innovation agenda by encouraging and supporting entrepreneurship and creativity. “The Harvard Innovation Lab is a bridge between imagination and implementation. What we have done on Western Avenue is create a space that increases the likelihood of planned and unplanned encounters among our students, faculty, staff, and members of Boston’s innovation community, a space where one ought to expect the unexpected,” said Faust. “Harvard’s i-lab is embracing the idea of shared innovation that’s at the core of my administration’s agenda,”...