Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

Media Lab student Amit Zoran shows the Chameleon Guitar, along with a variety of the interchangeable soundboards -- made of different woods and other materials -- that can be inserted to alter the guitar's acoustic characteristics.

'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech

Guitar built by a student at MIT's Media Lab promises to provide the best of electronic and acoustic.

February 3, 2009

The TransitionÂ® Roadable Light Sport Aircraft Proof of Concept with wings extended at Lawrence Municipal Airport.

Road-worthy plane? Or sky-worthy car?

Alums to begin test flights of 'roadable plane'

February 2, 2009

Elizabeth Goldring with the camera she developed.

Beyond the mind's eye

Visually challenged MIT poet's 'seeing machine' allows photos by the sight-impaired

January 13, 2009

Teens' inspirations for pursuing STEM careers. (2009 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index includes a nationally representative survey sample size of 500 teens).

Teens prepared for math, science careers, yet lack mentors

Lemelson-MIT Invention Index uncovers teens' views

January 7, 2009

Anna Kotova with kids they came across in a recent visit to some villages in India.

Legatum Center announces grant recipients

December 12, 2008

From left to right: Richard Maulsby (United States Patent and Trademark Office), Timothy Lu (grand winner, MIT), Greg Schroll (undergraduate winner, MIT), Paul Podsiadlo (graduate winner, University of Michigan), Neil Conan (NPR host) and Jeff Pan (Abbott representative who was also a judge).

MIT students take top prizes in national inventors' contest

Lu awarded $25,000 grand prize, Schroll takes top undergraduate honors

November 21, 2008

Legatum Center announces IAP Seed Grants

November 20, 2008

David Kirkpatrick (left), Chairman of Plymouth Rock Studios, Cynthia Breazeal, co-director of Media Lab's Center for Future Storytelling, and Frank Moss, director of the MIT Media Lab, with Nexi, a mobile, dexterous social robot developed by Breazeal's Personal Robots research group.

Media Lab creates Center for Future Storytelling

Teams up with Plymouth Rock Studios to reinvent the movies

November 18, 2008

Don't miss Global Entrepreneurship Week

November 17, 2008

Researchers, protect your inventions

MIT's Technology Licensing Office is here to help

October 28, 2008

Students invited to apply for $30K Lemelson-MIT student prize

October 22, 2008

MIT's Smith wins top honors for work in developing world

Popular Mechanics gives her Breakthrough Leadership award

October 16, 2008

Iqbal Quadir, director of the new Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship at MIT and senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning, spoke with Institute Professor Emeritus Paul Samuelson at the Legatum inauguration Oct. 7.

Nobel economists support different development path

Entrepreneurship can be powerful tool against poverty

October 10, 2008

MIT Deshpande Center announces fall 2008 research grants

Nine research teams receive $700,000 to turn new ideas into commercial innovations

October 8, 2008

Development fair to showcase world of opportunities on Oct. 3

October 1, 2008

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