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Links to Resources at MIT:
Technology Licensing Office-MIT's
Technology Licensing Office (TLO) today processes an average of two inventions a
day, and files three to five patent applications per week. MIT is now the leader
in patents granted annually to a single university. Since 1988, the TLO has pro-actively
started up more than 100 companies, working closely with the venture capital community
and business angels. Many TLO-sponsored firms offer internships for course 15.399 Entrepreneurship Lab.
For information, call 617-253-6966, visit the web site, or e-mail tlo-www@mit.edu.
MIT
Libraries -- The MIT librarians
are top-notch sources of information useful for everything from technical research
through business plan preparation. Dewey, the business library, has an entrepreneur's guide.
MIT
Enterprise Forum®, Inc.-The
Forum promotes the formation and growth of innovative, technologically-oriented companies
through a series of specialized executive education programs. Founded in 1978, the
Forum operates through a network of 18 chapters based in the US and overseas. Each
chapter provides advice, support and educational services for local emerging technology-based
companies.
Technology Capital Network (TCN) -Associated with the MIT Enterprise Forum,
TCN matches entrepreneurs with individual investors seeking to invest in high-tech
startups through the MIT Enterprise Forum's 18 chapters. For information, call 617-253-2337.
Center
for Innovation and Product Development-This
engineering research center was established in 1996 with funding from the National
Science Foundation. It is a joint venture between MIT's Department of Mechanical
Engineering and the MIT Sloan School of Management. The mission of the Center is
to help US firms bring more competitive products to market. The Center will develop,
test, refine and disseminate improved methods for product development while producing
new textbooks and related curricular material in the area of product development
for undergraduate and graduate students.
Lemelson-MIT Prize Program-The Prize Program was created in 1994 to encourage
young Americans to pursue careers in science, technology, and entrepreneurship. The
Program awards the world's largest prize for invention and innovation, the half-million
dollar Lemelson-MIT Prize, as well as MIT student awards for inventiveness and doctoral
fellowships seeking to create a more innovative and entrepreneurial environment in
the US.
Entrepreneurship
Lab (E-Lab) -- Sloan
Management students (and often MIT Engineering and Science students) are placed in
MIT spin-off companies during the school year, earning credit while learning by doing.
They participate in many different aspects of building these companies and receive
mentorship from company officers, investors, and board members.
UROP and Graduate Research Programs -- Students working in labs at MIT are
often the nucleus of spin-off companies. Certain professors have especially strong
reputations for their orientation towards commercializing lab products.
Internship Programs -- Corporate facilities are often excellent training ground
for an entrepreneurial career and are also gold mines of under-exploited technologies
and great talent. Internship-oriented programs for undergraduates (such as 6-A and
EIP) and for graduate students (such as Leaders for Manufacturing) are available by arrangement.
Links to Resources outside MIT:
Ewing
Marion Kauffman Foundation
- Founded by Ewing Marion Kauffman. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is an
operating and grant-making foundation that works toward the vision of self-sufficient
people in healthy communities. Our mission is to research and identify the unfulfilled
needs of society and to develop, implement and/or fund breakthrough solutions that
have a lasting impact and offer people a choice and hope for the future. The Kauffman
Foundation's work is focused on two areas: Youth Development and Entrepreneurial
Leadership.
The
Coleman Foundation - The Coleman
Foundation was founded in 1951 by Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Stetson Coleman. It was their
consistent desire to make the community aware of opportunities, which could improve
the quality of life.Through the Foundation, they could assure that these efforts
would continue beyond their own lifetimes. The Colemans were involved and committed
business people, entrepreneurs, and most notably in Chicago, owners of Fannie May
Candies. After their deaths and as the Foundation matured in the early 1980's, the
Directors furthered the original mission through selected programs including entrepreneurship
(self-employment) awareness and education. Since 1981, the Foundation has committed
in excess of $20 million to advance this "self-sufficiency through self-employment"
concept.
The
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For further information on the Entrepreneurship
Society, contact:
Jack McCullough: jackmcc@alum.mit.edu,
or Will N. Clurman: wnc@alum.mit.edu
MIT Entrepreneurship Center, 70
Memorial Drive, Room E51-355, Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: 617-253-8653, Fax: 617-253-8633, Email: ecenter@mit.edu |
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