The Innovations Frontier

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Oct 7, 2008  |  Boston, MA

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MIT Professors talk about the exciting innovations taking place within their departments and the opportunities that these innovations could present for the developing world.

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  • An audience member taking advantage of the question and answer period to engage panel participants
  • MIT Sloan School professor Rebecca Henderson and Media Lab professor William Mitchell
  • Professor Henderson giving examples of exciting innovations taking place at MIT’s Sloan School of Management
  • Professor Charles Cooney
  • Professor William Mitchell explaining the revolutionary features of his lab's “City Cars.”
  • Professor Charles Cooney telling the audience about MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation

Speakers

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Antoinette Schoar

Michael M. Koerner Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT professor, Antoinette Schoar moderates the innovations panel at the 2008 Progress Through Innovation Conference.

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Charles Cooney

Robert T. Haslam (1911) Professor of Chemical Engineering, in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation and the International Innovation Initiative (I3)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"How can we take what we know about science . . . learn how to take that innovation forward through entrepreneurship, and deliver it to the people who need it?"

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Rebecca Henderson

Eastman Kodak Professor of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT professor Rebecca Henderson discusses applying business, management, and technological concepts to a developing world context.

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William Mitchell

Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. (1954) Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"We did what everyone always says not to do, we reinvented the wheel." Professor William Mitchell discussing his innovative designs for cars.