Innovation Teams (i-Teams): 10.807/15.371
Innovating as a process you can practice and start to apply immediately to steer actual MIT technologies to impact. Lectures Introduce skills and capabilities for systematic technical and functional exploration, opportunity discovery, market understanding, value economics, innovation scale-up, intellectual property, elements of technology commercialization at scale, and communicating/working for impact inside and outside home disciplines. Students work in multidisciplinary teams formed around MIT research breakthroughs, with extensive in-class coaching from faculty and guidance from lab members and select mentors. Students learn a structured approach to innovating in which everything is a variable and the product, technology, and opportunities for new ventures can be seen as an act of synthesis. Teams learn to gather evidence that permits a fact-based iteration across multiple application domains, markets, functionalities, technologies, and products, leading to a recommendation that maps a space of opportunity and includes actionable next steps to evolve the market and technology. Students from all schools welcome; brief statement of interest is required before instructor approval and registration.
Spring 2017:
- Tues/Thurs 9-11am in 56-114
- Fri 10-noon 56-154 (Lab)
Email iTeams-TA@mit.edu with questions!