Report details steps needed to accelerate innovation at MIT
Innovation in the service of society has been at the core of MIT’s mission since the Institute’s founding more than 150 years ago. Now a preliminary report, leading up to the launch of an MIT Innovation Initiative, is proposing a series of steps aimed at fortifying MIT’s culture of innovation — suggesting a suite of resources, programs, and facilities to aid in bringing significant innovations out of the labs and into the daily lives of people around the world, and to do so faster and more effectively. Compilation of the report was led by the co-directors of the Innovation Initiative: Vladimir Bulovic, the Fariborz Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technology, and Fiona Murray, the William Porter Professor of Entrepreneurship. The two professors are associate deans for innovation in the School of Engineering and the MIT Sloan School of Management, respectively. The effort was initiated in October 2013 by MIT President L. Rafael Reif. In...