MIT Innovation Club

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MIT Innovation Club
Where ideas come from.
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BankBoston reports that MIT has
1. Spun-out 4,000 Firms
2. Which employ over 1,000,000 people
3. And generate 232,000,000,000 / year
POP QUIZ
Question What did BankBoston call this report?
Innovation
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The Impact of
Answer
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MITs website beats all other schools for usage
of what word?
MIT 16,200 hits
Innovation
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Fill in the Blanks
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Innovation
1. MIT is the School of
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Innovation
2. Lets create an MIT
Club!
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We Will Answer Your Questions

• What is The Innovation Club?
• How does the club work?
• Who leads it?
• How can I get involved?

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What is the Innovation Club?

• Its an MIT-wide graduate student club.
• Its members explore the who, what, where, when,
  how, and why of innovation.
• They also use this knowledge to figure out how to
  overcome the worlds challenges with cutting-edge
  technology.

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We further MITs Mission
MIT is scholarly.
MIT is practical.
Innovation Club seeks to understand Innovation.
Innovation Club helps students generate ideas.
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MIT Innovation Club is different from existing
clubs
Membership Academic Home Central activity Technology Focus
Innovation Club 8 Management of Technological Innovation Tech Testbeds 8
Marketing Club MBA Marketing Speakers 8
MediaTech Club MBA N/A Tech Trek, Speakers Media
MIT 50K competition 8 Entrepreneurship Center B-plan competition 8
Sloan Entrepreneurs MBA Entrepreneurship Center Networking 8
TechLink 8 N/A Socializing 8
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Diversity helps us be creative
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How does the club work?

• Practical Side
• Tech Testbeds
• Brainstorms
• Problems Website
• Labtours
• TLO Open House
• Innovation Channel
• New courses

• Theoretical Side
• Brainstorm research
• Academic speakers
• Consulting speakers
• Live case examples
• Historical analysis
• Innovation in services

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Who leads the Innovation Club?

• Joost Bonsen (Sloan MOT Candidate, EE SB 90)
• Alex Coisman (Sloan MBA 04)
• Michael J. Osofsky (Sloan MBA 04)

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How can I get involved?

• Assist with experimental coordination
• Volunteer for social science experiments
• Initiate technology test beds
• Invite innovation researchers to speak
• Take electives in innovation technology
• Survey emerging technologies
• Author Innovation Clubs weblog

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How can I get involved?

• Fundraise
• Organize social events
• Organize lab tours
• Invite live case study companies to speak
• Invite service sector innovators to speak
• Invite innovation and creativity consultants to
  speak

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How can I get involved?

• Drive proposals for innovating on MIT
• Write a thesis on innovation
• Build the Innovation Channel