The Engine MIT Working Groups Community Forum

The Engine MIT Working Groups Community Forum

MIT seeks to accelerate an ecosystem where the world’s brightest innovators find the comprehensive support needed to develop their biggest and most transformative ideas from the formative stage to the most effective implementation. MIT has launched an accelerator structure outside of MIT – The Engine – to advance innovation in a space underserved by current incubators and investors. With a focus on scientific and technological innovation The Engine will foster innovations that offer potential for transformative impact but require a longer developmental time line and patient capital. Our approach is also tailored to the needs of founders who seek access to a critical combination of resources and services. MIT Working Groups have been established to guide the development of policies and simplified procedures specifically as they relate to MIT’s launch of The Engine. A community forum will take place on March 22, 2017 from 5:00pm to 6:30pm in room 32-123 to discuss some of the key ideas in advance of a Working Groups report to be submitted in April 2017.

PROGRAM

Remarks

• Martin A. Schmidt, Provost
• Israel Ruiz, Executive Vice President & Treasurer
• Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Head, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Chair, The Engine Advisory Committee)
• Katie Rae, President & CEO, The Engine

Initial Findings from Working Groups Chairs

• Facilities Access: Martin Culpepper, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• New Models for Technology Licensing: Timothy (Tim) Swager, John D. MacArthur Professor, Department of Chemistry
• Conflict of Interest: Klavs Jensen, Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical Engineering; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
• Visas for Entrepreneurs:Dick Yue, Philip J. Solondz Professor of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• MIT’S Innovation Ecosystem: Fiona Murray, Associate Dean for Innovation; William Porter (1967) Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management (Co-Chair), and Vladimir Bulović, Associate Dean for Innovation; Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Professor of Emerging Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Co-Chair)
  

Discussion and Q&A with Panel

• The MIT Community

We look forward to your participation.

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