Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

Israeli and Palestinian fellows from Our Generation Speaks work with MIT student interns at MITdesignX, a venture accelerator in the School of Architecture and Planning, to develop startups that tackle urban and design issues.

Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship

Visiting fellows engage with students in the School of Architecture and Planning to create startups aimed at social impact.

March 7, 2019

Alex Amouyel announces the 2019 Solve Global Challenges on stage in Kresge Auditorium at the Hello World, Hello MIT event.

Solve launches 2019 global challenges

Anyone can submit tech-based solution applications until July 1.

March 4, 2019

Umbulizer founders Shaheer Piracha and Harvard Medical School student Sanchay Gupta (holding the check, from l-r) pose with the judges after winning the Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize competition. Umbulizer’s other founders not pictured include MIT alumni Moiz Imam ’18 and Abdurrahman Akkas ’18, MIT mechanical engineering student Wasay Anwer, Boston University student Rohan Jadeja, and F...

Low-cost ventilator wins Sloan health care prize

Device was one of eight inventions pitched at this year’s MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize competition.

February 25, 2019

Whirlwind I, the first digital computer capable of real-time computation

Twenty-five ways in which MIT has transformed computing

From digital circuits to ingestible robots, the Institute has helped spearhead key innovations in the technology revolution.

February 25, 2019

Frederic Kerrest MBA ’09, the co-founder and COO of identity management company Okta, recently launched a new podcast to help entrepreneurs.

Podcast reveals the tough reality of building a business

Frederic Kerrest MBA ’09 recently launched the podcast "Zero to IPO" to help entrepreneurs with each stage of the startup journey.

February 14, 2019

Alto Pharmacy offers free, same-day medication delivery to customers.

Redesigning pharmacies with the consumer in mind

Alto Pharmacy uses software and an innovative operations model to improve access to medication.

February 13, 2019

Catherine Iacobo named industry co-director for MIT Leaders for Global Operations

February 11, 2019

MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan cofounded Cambridge Mobile Telematics in 2010 to make the world’s roads safer through the use of sensors on smartphones and other devices the company designs. He recently spoke to StartMIT participants during IAP 2019.

At StartMIT, students gain advice for building a successful startup

“The purpose of a business should be to solve real problems for real customers,” says MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan, cofounder of Cambridge Mobile Telematics.

February 8, 2019

Eugene Fitzgerald appointed CEO and director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology

Professor of materials science and engineering to lead MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore.

February 6, 2019

Attendees of the Entrepreneurship Development Program work together on a company-building project in addition to other hands-on learning activities throughout the week.

Teaching the entrepreneurial craft at startup speed

MIT’s Entrepreneurship Development Program takes attendees through every step of the company-building process.

February 6, 2019

A view of the new U.S. DOT Volpe building as seen from Binney Street looking west.

First step on Volpe parcel planned for 2019

Building and landscape designs for new federal building are now complete.

February 5, 2019

As drones increasingly take on the job of inspecting growing solar farms, Raptor Maps' software makes sense of the data they collect.

Optimizing solar farms with smart drones

MIT spinoff Raptor Maps uses machine-learning software to improve the maintenance of solar panels.

January 30, 2019

Vectorly co-founder and CEO Sam Bhattacharyya at a pitch competition before he pivoted the company and changed its name from dot Learn.

Vectorly reinvents itself to maximize its impact on mobile learning

In a year its co-founder calls the hardest of his life, company pivots from app development to video compression.

January 23, 2019

The Practical Impact Alliance Co-Design summit in Laâyoune was co-organized by the MIT D-Lab and the Phosboucraa Foundation of Morocco.

MIT D-Lab Practical Impact Alliance holds Co-Design Summit

Gathering aims for collaborative solutions to economic and social development challenges using MIT D-Lab's participatory design methodology.

January 16, 2019

Thunkable co-founders (l-r) WeiHua Li ’14 SM ’16 and Arun Saigal ’13 SM ’13 began working on the MIT App Inventor project together in 2011.

Democratizing app development

Thunkable gives noncoders the ability to create professional-grade mobile apps.