Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

3dim wins MIT $100K Entrepreneurship CompetitionAnnual business-plan contest awards $257,000 in total.

Arts at MIT add an artistic boost to the Institute’s entrepreneurial scrumNew $10,000 Creative Arts Competition to reward best arts-focused business plan

MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator announces 2013 student teamsStartup accelerator includes eight MIT student teams as well as teams from six international universities.

Students with toys: Not just playing aroundIn mechanical engineering department’s toy-design class, teams design creative board games, plush toys and puzzles.

First ‘SuperUROPs’ cap off inaugural yearEECS program immerses undergraduates in advanced research projects.

One order of steel; hold the greenhouse gasesSteelmaking, a major emitter of climate-altering gases, could be transformed by a new process developed at MIT.

Funding clean-energy solutionsMIT’s Clean Energy Prize awards more than $300,000 to support green startups and technologies.

MIT signs Compact for Sustainable Future with City of Cambridge and HarvardAkamai to join universities and city in new agreement; others encouraged to follow suit.

IDEAS awards offer a ‘launching point’ for venturesSocial entrepreneurs take home thousands of dollars from the IDEAS Global Challenge to help launch startups, develop inventions.

Inventors honored for bringing life-saving health solutions to the developing worldRebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden win $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation.

High probability of successMIT alumnus and entrepreneur Ben Vigoda took his probability-processing technology to market with help from the Institute.

MIT Entrepreneur in Residence Network expandsProgram provides resources and features advice from successful serial entrepreneurs

NSE-led teams sweep energy innovation contestFuture Energy @ MIT pitch competition focuses on finding solutions to the world’s energy challenges

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: BluelightThe team is developing a layaway payment system in Jordan to provide low-income consumers with greater access to capital.

Wind power — even without the windInnovative storage system could enable offshore wind farms to deliver power whenever it’s needed.

Power to the peopleFrom afar, MIT grad student Chidube Ezeozue devotes energy to his fellow Nigerians.

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Bounce ImagingThe venture has developed a low-cost, throwable device for first responders to assess dangerous situations.

The half-billion-dollar ideaWhile at MIT, alumnus Todd Zion developed an insulin product that ultimately drew the attention of a pharmaceutical giant.

Students have engineering on the brainMIT class offers student teams a chance to create business ventures based on neurotechnology research.

MicroRNA detection on the cheapMIT 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 teamsStudent-led entrepreneurship supported by new Venture Grants

From biotech to high-techNewer Kendall Square firms attribute their success to innovative ideas — and to location, location, location.

NSE students in the national spotlightThree from Course 22 named to Forbes '30 under 30' list

Birthplace of biotechSuccessful tech and biotech companies founded by MIT entrepreneurs thrive in adjacent Kendall Square, where innovation and intellectual capital abound.

Fostering an innovation ecosystemMIT 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 siliconNew analysis points the way to optimizing efficiency of an integrated system for harvesting sunlight to make storable fuel.

Q&A: U.S. immigration policy and entrepreneurshipMIT’s Bill Aulet, Danielle Guichard-Ashbrook and Edward Roberts discuss the challenges facing foreign-born entrepreneurs under U.S. immigration policy.

D-Lab Scale-Ups fellowships open for MIT social entrepreneursApplications due April 3