Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

Professor Donald Sadoway and graduate student David Bradwell observe one of their small test batteries in the lab. The battery itself is inside the heavily insulated metal cylinder at center, which heats it to 700 degrees Celsius, while the wires at top charge up the battery and measure its performance.

Liquid battery big enough for the electric grid?

Professor Donald Sadoway’s research in energy storage could help speed the development of renewable energy.

November 19, 2009

Turning heat to electricity

MIT research points to a much more efficient way of harvesting electrical power from what would otherwise be wasted heat.

November 18, 2009

One word: bioplastics

At a new plant in Iowa, MIT-rooted technology will use bacteria to turn corn into biodegradable plastics.

November 17, 2009

Of Note: Celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week at MIT

November 16, 2009

MIT is featured on the seven-story-tall NASDAQ screen in Times Square.

Will Innovation Still be Made in America?

October 30, 2009

Joel Dawson, associate professor of electrical engineering

A new way to measure muscle

MIT engineer Joel Dawson and colleagues built a handheld probe that could help doctors monitor muscle atrophy in patients with Lou Gehrig's Disease and similar ailments.

October 28, 2009

All wired up

MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson explains how technology really helps the economy — even as the restructuring it is spurring causes pain.

October 23, 2009

Teens aim to make a difference through invention

15 high schools awarded Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam Grants to tackle real-world problems; grant applications now available for 2010-2011 school year

October 20, 2009

Dr. Keith Collins ’70 explains the details of his zero-net-energy house in Rockport, Maine.

The easy way to go green

Alum's 'state-of-the-shelf' energy-efficient house is among a bevy of new ideas for curbing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions presented at MIT's annual Energy Night.

October 20, 2009

Deshpande Center's latest funding cycle supports goal of 'idea to impact'

Since 2002, the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation has funded more than 80 projects with over $9 M in grants. The center supports a wide range of emerging technologies including biotechnology, biomedical devices, information technology, new materials, tiny tech, and energy innovations. Eighteen projects have spun out of the center as independent startups, having collectively raised over $150 million in outside financing from investors.

October 17, 2009

$Until recently, scientists theorized that DNA organized itself into a structure known as an equilibrium globule, left. This type of structure is highly tangled, and stretches of DNA located near each other on a chromosome may be far apart in the 3D structure. MIT, Harvard and UMass Medical School researchers have shown that DNA is actually organized as a fractal globule, right, which resists knott...$

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