Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, winner of the Millennium Technology Prize for 2008.

Langer wins Millennium Technology Prize

June 11, 2008

Tao Laoban works at cleaning one of the concrete solar cookers used in Tibet. A team of students, including some from MIT, has developed a more portable solar cooker.

Harnessing the Tibetan sun

Student project aims to reduce deforestation and lung disease

June 4, 2008

The Braille Pencil, winner of a $7,500 IDEAS award.

IDEAS Competition awards

June 4, 2008

The mesh of nanowires behind MIT's new material for absorbing oil and other organic pollutants, here shown at increasing magnifications (left to right).

MIT develops a 'paper towel' for oil spills

Nanowire mesh can absorb up to 20 times its weight in oil

May 30, 2008

MIT Legatum Center announces inaugural class of Legatum Fellows

Entrepreneurs aim to scale up enterprise solutions in developing markets

May 23, 2008

Members of the grand-prize-winning team in the MIT 100k Competition, from left to right, Krishna Yeshwant, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Hayat Sindi, Carol Waghorne, Jon Puz, Gilbert Tang.

Entrepreneurship contests reward energy, diagnosis plans

May 16, 2008

Incoming frosh numero 'uno' on invention list

May 14, 2008

Martin Fisher has won the 2008 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability for his work helping lift African farmers out of poverty through a combination of technological invention and business development.

KickStart co-founder receives $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability

Inventor's irrigation pumps help lift African farmers out of poverty

April 23, 2008

Stated by Stata

April 4, 2008

Seven MIT research teams win Deshpande grants

Awarded $500K in total

March 19, 2008

MIT students Maria Luckyanova and Philip Garcia (at right) operate their prosthetic-fitting device at the Jaipur Foot Organization headquarters in India in January, as JFO specialists work on fitting a prosthetic leg on a patient.

A leg to stand on

March 5, 2008

MIT graduate student and synthetic biologist Timothy Lu has won the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventing processes to combat bacterial infections by enhancing the effectiveness of antibiotics.

Bacteria beware: MIT student invents knock-out punch for antibiotic resistance

Timothy Lu awarded $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventiveness

February 27, 2008

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer and faculty member Jeffrey Karp, both affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, display an adhesive they developed that was inspired by the gecko and may have medical and surgical applications.

MIT creates gecko-inspired bandage

February 18, 2008

A member of the Honduran woodcutting cooperative at work in the Biosphere Rio Platano, where they have been logging in a sustainable way under the guidance of the Rainforest Alliance and the State Forestry Administration.

Saving the rainforest with ... toys?

February 13, 2008

MIT to review U.S. energy technology innovation

February 7, 2008

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