NSE-led teams sweep energy innovation contest
Future Energy @ MIT pitch competition focuses on finding solutions to the world’s energy challenges
IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Bluelight
The team is developing a layaway payment system in Jordan to provide low-income consumers with greater access to capital.
Wind power — even without the wind
Innovative storage system could enable offshore wind farms to deliver power whenever it’s needed.
Power to the people
From afar, MIT grad student Chidube Ezeozue devotes energy to his fellow Nigerians.
IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Bounce Imaging
The venture has developed a low-cost, throwable device for first responders to assess dangerous situations.
The half-billion-dollar idea
While at MIT, alumnus Todd Zion developed an insulin product that ultimately drew the attention of a pharmaceutical giant.
Six faculty recognized for Russian engagement
Institute names inaugural Skolkovo Foundation Professors.
Students have engineering on the brain
MIT class offers student teams a chance to create business ventures based on neurotechnology research.
MicroRNA detection on the cheap
MIT alumni’s startup provides rapid, cost-effective microRNA profiling, which is beneficial for diagnosing diseases.
New grants help amplify impact of MIT IDEAS Global Challenge teams
Student-led entrepreneurship supported by new Venture Grants
From biotech to high-tech
Newer Kendall Square firms attribute their success to innovative ideas — and to location, location, location.
Birthplace of biotech
Successful tech and biotech companies founded by MIT entrepreneurs thrive in adjacent Kendall Square, where innovation and intellectual capital abound.
Fostering an innovation ecosystem
MIT President L. Rafael Reif and others discuss ways to support Kendall Square’s burgeoning innovation culture.
MIT researchers develop solar-to-fuel roadmap for crystalline silicon
New analysis points the way to optimizing efficiency of an integrated system for harvesting sunlight to make storable fuel.