Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

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

Innovation Night Sept. 12 at MIT Museum

September 12, 2008

A team from the International Development Design Summit at MIT created a cable-car-like ropeway to transport goods uphill.

Improving people's lives, one device at a time

International workshop looks for simple solutions to big problems

August 8, 2008

Winners of the 2008 Biocant Ventures Prize from the MIT Portugal Program's Bio-Teams, from left: researcher John Jones and students David Malta, Mariana Fernandes and Tatiana Aguiar.

MIT Portugal students win entrepreneurship competition

Invention could help diagnose muscle wasting

July 23, 2008

Graduate student Erez Lieberman is working on an "iShoe" which uses technology developed by NASA to create an insole that could help elderly people keep their balance and prevent falls.

Balance problems? Step into the iShoe

MIT grad student's invention could one day prevent falls

July 16, 2008

MIT Global Startup Workshop's 12th annual conference to be held in Africa

July 15, 2008

Royce Chew from Singapore works on a low-cost water testing device at last year's International Development Design Summit at MIT.

A hands-on approach to Third World aid

Month-long IDDS workshop targets development through design

July 10, 2008

A livestock shelter in Kashmir. The community had used straw (a locally sourced material) as an infill between two corrugated galvanised iron sheets to make the shelter more comfortable for the livestock. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('itw-insul-1-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')"><span onmouseover="this.className='cursorChange';"><strong>Open image gallery</strong></span></a><no...

Simple insulation could combat heat, cold and noise

Work could impact millions around world

July 1, 2008

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