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Great inventors and innovators• Curiosity
– Collecting solutions for problems that have not yet been encountered
– Tool box of orthogonal nonlinearities • Empathy
– Truly experience and understand the problems that others face
• Leadership– The path to a solution often requires skills that go beyond
any one individual– Confidence balanced by objectivity– Infectious enthusiasm
Attributes of innovative groups
• Small• They have a clear image of excellence• Able to reinvent their mission• Diversity of experience
– They have a perspective that gives them an “unfair advantage”
• Absence of a fear of failure
Environment for innovation
• Creative centers– Research centers, Universities, etc.
• Capital– VC, angel, credit cards, etc.
• People of the “start-up infrastructure”• Time
– Every new idea begins with a negative net present value
MIT Innovation Ecosystem & Pipeline
Basic+Applied Research
Commercial Promise &
Viability
UniversitySpin-Off
Emerging Growth
Established Company
Support / Alum Offices:
Academic / Research
Offices
Student / Informal
Organizations
Joost Bonsen © 2008 ~ jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu
2009 InvenTeams•Students teams discover the problem they want to work on
•~500 students, teachers and mentors working on 30 teams
•4:1 students : adults•20% rural, 13% urban, and 67% suburban
•80% of schools are public•Upperclassmen•28% Female
Invention Education: InvenTeams
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